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

Myriad Genetics

4 In a recent presentation, Dale Muzzey, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Myriad, summarized the findings this way: “We followed up with providers regarding their patients who screened positive for 22q. 5 Clear Benefits for Healthcare Providers and Patients The benefits to a high PPV are, well, myriad. Genet Med   3 , 14–18 (2001).

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PEMPix 2023 Online Case 2: Walk Softly

PEMBlog

The family denies any sore throat, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, conjunctivitis. F), HR 140, RR 12, BP 104/67, sat 99% on room air The patient was crying and appeared uncomfortable Moist mucous membranes. Papular purpuric gloves and socks syndrome The patient was diagnosed with papular purpuric gloves and socks syndrome (PPGSS).

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. For others, this piece, while painful to read, gave voice to what they have been feeling over the last decade – hospice has in some ways lost its way in a quest of promoting profit over care. JAMA Health Forum. Is it you, Ira? Eric: Great.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago. Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. Mike, welcome to GeriPal. Mike: Great to be here. Alex: We’ll take any Warriors we can get.

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Episode 240: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 17 – ‘Just’ Births: Reproductive Justice & Black/Indigenous Maternal Health Equity

The Clinical Problem Solvers

We all must recognize the codification of racism within our institutions and work to unlearn these hierarchies in order to better care for Black and Indigenous patients. Clinicians are able to shape the environment in which people give birth by caring for the earth and their patients. and a professor.”

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database that includes vaccine safety information from millions of patients, according to multiple sources. Thimerosal was removed from most vaccines in 2001 as a safety precaution. Results of that work are expected this fall. Geier, meanwhile, is trying to gain access to a U.S.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care.