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Passive Digital Marker Can Identify Childhood Asthma Risk

Physician's Weekly

from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and colleagues sought to externally validate and update the PARS as a passive digital marker (PDM) for asthma risk. The analysis included data from 69,109 children born between 2010 and 2017, of whom 5,290 (7.65 percent) had a confirmed asthma diagnosis after age 4 years.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only. A recent analysis of the U.S.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues. Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis.

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