Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context In 2018, 63.1% of Canadians were at greater risk of chronic diseases due to their BMI, including type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, and hypertension. Population Studied Patients with obesity enrolled in the Méta-Santé clinic. Average participation duration is 235 days, with a mean BMI of 41 at entry.

Family Medicine 130

Family Medicine DO Nurse Practitioner Family 130

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa.

Diabetes 105

Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Goldilocks zone).

Diabetes 73

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Although BK polyomavirus (BKPyV)–DNAemia was prevalent in kidney transplant recipients in a single-center study, associated graft loss rates were low, with no demonstrable effect on long-term graft loss or patient mortality, according to findings published in the journal Nephrology. in patients with HLA mismatch of 3/6 or 4/6, 2.06

Screening 59

Screening Patient-Centered Management Patients 59

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. William: Thanks so much.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes.

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Praised by the FDA, Alzheimer’s Association (AA), and Pharma as a “game changer”, but derided by others for the drug’s lack of clinical efficacy, risk of severe adverse effects, absence of diversity in trial populations, high costs, and an FDA approval process that was in the kindest words “rife with irregularities”.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98