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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

The average age of a breast cancer diagnosis has statistically been around 65. My first breast cancer scare was in 2014, when they discovered calcifications for the first time during a routine mammogram. If you’ve recently received a DCIS diagnosis or know someone who has, what are your options? Don’t worry!

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” So we’re trying to help replace the transportation option. ” Then they still ended up coming to see me.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

If swallowing is extremely painful and the fever is high, you may not have enough time to get to the ER safely without emergency transport. Get an expert diagnosis, advice, and prescriptions — all available 24/7 from your home.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. Pediatr Rev.