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Natural History of Asymptomatic Renal Stones Before RC

Physician's Weekly

They reviewed individuals referred for RC and UD between 2015 and 2023 at a single center. Individuals with prior stone interventions, additional ureteric stones, or no postoperative imaging were excluded. Preoperative CT scans were analyzed to identify those with asymptomatic renal stones. The mean stone burden was 4.5

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Cosmetic Outcomes of Temporal Vein Phlebectomy

Physician's Weekly

The following is a summary of “Patient Satisfaction Following Phlebectomy for Prominent Temporal and Periorbital Facial Veins—Results From Our First Cohort of Patients,” published in the June 2025 issue of Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology by Muschamp et al. The mean age of respondents was 45.4 Mean satisfaction scores were [3.8/5]

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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. It’s more complicated than that. The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal. According to Epic, the number of patient messages spiked 151 percent nationally from the period covering the first 11 weeks of 2020 through the end of the year. And individual practice styles are fine. Absolutely.

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It’s a Cruel Summer – Two New OPDP Untitled Letters

FDA Law

The approved labeling for AUVI-Q includes warnings and precautions regarding emergency treatment, injection-related complications, serious infections at the injection site, allergic reactions associated with sulfite, and disease interactions.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.