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Rising Syphilitic Uveitis Trends and Ocular Outcomes

Physician's Weekly

33.54%), predominantly in patients with panuveitis or posterior uveitis (78.79%, N=52). The cumulative incidence and prevalence of syphilitic uveitis from 2013 to 2024 were 0.36 Of those with syphilitic uveitis, 53.58% (N=127, 95% CI 47.2-59.9%) 59.9%) were White, and 75.10% (N=178, 95% CI 69.6-80.6%)

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Factor Analysis to create a shorter version of the Team Development Measurement Scale. [Instrument development / psychometrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

published the Team Development Measure (TDM) in 2013. Setting or Dataset: the dataset included responses from team members who represented rural and urban, and in- and out-patient health care settings across Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. Stock, et al.

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Biden Administration Facing Renewed Pressure to Legalize Cannabis

FDA Law Blog

CRCC also requests such guidance should explicitly protect patients using cannabis for medical treatment. They ask the Administration to act swiftly “to rectify this decade long injustice harming individuals, especially Black and Brown communities.” Cole, Deputy Attorney General, Memorandum for All United States Attorneys (Aug.

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Rheumatology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. ABIM does not contact individual programs with a lower pass rate to initiate changes to the program. Jerome Clauser, Ed.D.,

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FDA Creates a New Advisory Committee for Genetic Metabolic Diseases – Could This Be an Opportunity to Support Rare Disease Product Development More Broadly?

FDA Law Blog

Janet Maynard, Director of this Office, highlighted in the press release that “[g]enetic metabolic diseases include very rare diseases that individually affect a limited number of patients. Drug development for these conditions has unique and complex challenges, therefore few treatments are available to patients.”

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Plastic Surgery Intern Year: Catching up on 6 months of Updates

Aspiring Minority Doctor

My favorite moment was probably when we had a laparoscopic appendectomy (appendix removal using small incisions and a camera) and the attending stood patiently waiting for a while as I tried to find the appendix. It kept me busy, but I really enjoyed the hospital I was rotating at, and the attendings let me do a lot in the operating room.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. 2013-0421 Tighe M, Afzal NA, Bevan A, et al. Topics covered include: The pathophysiology of GER and GERD in the pediatric population.