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Buyer beware: 60% of foods purchased by Americans contain technical food additives, a 10% increase since 2001

Medical Xpress

This represents a 10% increase since 2001. in 2001 to 4.5 A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has determined that 60% of foods purchased by Americans contain technical food additives including coloring or flavoring agents, preservatives, and sweeteners. in 2019.

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>Pathways to Primary Care - Charting trajectories from medical school graduation through specialty training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: US physicians who graduated from medical school 2001-2015. Results: Physician graduates totaled 353,590, (2001–2015), including MDs - 92.1%, (325,578), DOs - 8% (28,012), IMGs - 21% (67,231). Dataset: AMA Physician Masterfile and Historical Residency File (2024). Intervention: None.

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Pain Management Trajectories in Parkinson’s Disease

Physician's Weekly

compared to 31.2% in those without PD.

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Remembering Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP

ABIM

Holly had a long and meaningful relationship with ABIM dating back to her first days on the ABIM Board of Directors in 2001. Humphrey, MD, MACP, a nationally renowned leader in medical education and President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, passed yesterday from pancreatic cancer.

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Rash Week! My aching feet!

PEMBlog

N Engl J Med 2001; 345:335-338. This is an outbreak following exposure to hot tub/pool water containing high concentrations of P. aeruginosa. Antibiotics are not necessary for treatment and it self resolves. References Fiorello L, et al. The Pseudomonas Hot-Foot Syndrome. DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200108023450504.

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AMPLIFY™ Technology Enhances Prenatal Screening for 22q11.2 Microdeletion

Myriad Genetics

For example, Driscoll (2001) wrote on the benefits of early 22q detection: Couples can opt to pursue diagnostic testing. Genet Med   3 , 14–18 (2001). Previous data using other laboratory methods have yielded a PPV of approximately half that, around 53%. Performance of noninvasive prenatal screening for 22q11.2 2022;227(1):124-125.

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Episode 165: WDx #8 – Clinical unknown with Dr. Ann Marie Kumfer & Dr. Debra Bynum

The Clinical Problem Solvers

After three years at WakeMed, she returned to UNC for further training as a fellow in the Geriatric Medicine program and was appointed to a faculty position in 2001.

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