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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

My first breast cancer scare was in 2014, when they discovered calcifications for the first time during a routine mammogram. I also did a screening blood test to look for circulating tumor cells, which I will have an article on this soon! They also include mammary ducts that store and transport the milk.

Diagnosis 130
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Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

The Clinical Problem Solvers

And we have examples of mutual aid networks and organizations that worked to improve care in the setting of organized abandonment; some of these include the Black Panther Party providing free healthcare in communities, and the Puerto Rican activist organization ‘The Young Lords’ ensuring their community receives tuberculosis screenings.

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

GeriPal

Emmy: Because if you’ve got other ways to get things delivered or you have good public transportation or you have a lot of family around, that’s a very different kind of calculus than if you live on your ranch and there’s no way to otherwise get to town, and there’s nobody else around. “How are things going?”

IT 102
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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Now, newborn screening, or NBS, includes testing newly born infants for certain IEMs. Make plans to safely transport the child to a tertiary care after stabilization. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available from: [link] Rice GM, Steiner RD. Inborn Errors of Metabolism (Metabolic Disorders). Pediatr Rev.