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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. times more likely to develop urinary or sexual complications, 2.78

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Their research showed promising results for lab rats, and they plan to carry out the first human trials in the second half of 2017 and gather preliminary results during 2018. Developing bionic eyes with fractal-patterned electrodes for reversing blindness We have seen fascinating developments as well. and a specificity of 95.5%.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? It is believed that this sequestered portion of his lung placed him at an elevated risk for infections as this is a known complication of bronchopulmonary sequestration. Epub 2018 Apr 6.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. And I can only imagine that’s even more complicated in the cancer patient population, where we’re asking them to do so many other things as well. Goldilocks zone).

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

GeriPal

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. 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.”

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. And then in 2018, when adult use was allowed in California, I think it gave people more permission, but the stigma is still there. I mean, I think, you know, people talk about withdrawal syndrome and it is an official DSM for diagnosis, but I’m not sure it’s.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. Raj: 40 years later in 2018, they got together at Astana, the then capital of Kazakhstan, and brought out another resolution, which ask member countries to give control over healthcare to the community. People who are suffering are not very visible.

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