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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

After completing medical school at Texas Tech University, she moved up to North Carolina for residency. From there, she came to Chapel Hill for medical school and stayed at UNC for residency training. Ann Marie Kumfer & Dr. Debra Bynum Want to test your learning?

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AMPLIFYâ„¢ 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. Mayo Clinic. Genet Med   3 , 14–18 (2001). Previous data using other laboratory methods have yielded a PPV of approximately half that, around 53%. The annual incidence of DiGeorge/velocardiofacial syndrome. 

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Episode 384: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 26 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 1

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Benton mentors clinical and research physicians, fellows, and postdoctoral trainees. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.

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Full circle.

Reflections of a Grady Doctor

In 1992, I started at Meharry Medical College--the school that felt right but that I feared attending because, after Tuskegee University, it would be my second historically black college. I took the interview there only because it coincided with my interview at The Cleveland Clinic. Got an interview there. And never came off the list.

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Benton mentors clinical and research physicians, fellows, and postdoctoral trainees. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.

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Novel gene-editing therapy shows promise for patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy

Medical Xpress

5–7, 2022, is a premier global exchange of the latest scientific advancements, research and evidence-based clinical practice updates in cardiovascular science. The meeting, held in person in Chicago and virtually, Nov.

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FDA’s Draft Guidance on Externally Controlled Trials Answers Some Questions, Leaves Others Unanswered

FDA Law Blog

Notably, the Draft Guidance states that it is not intended to address other types of external controls, such as using summary-level estimates instead of patient-level data, nor does it discuss the use of external control data to supplement a control arm in a traditional randomized controlled clinical trial. stroke).