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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care for diabetes in Canada: Results from a mixed-methods study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Using CPCSSN data, we defined a cohort of patients aged 50-105 with diabetes diagnosed before the pre-pandemic period. Qualitative interviews were conducted with Ontario patients aged > 50 with diagnosis of (or receiving treatment for) type 2 diabetes prior to pandemic onset.

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Rare Diseases: Pathways to accelerating diagnoses 

Myriad Genetics

Recently, the Today Show highlighted Courtney (she asked that only first names be used), who visited 17 different doctors over three years to help diagnose her young son Alex, who she was watching suffer and decline before her eyes. Barriers to Rare Disease Diagnosis, Care and Treatment in the US: A 30-year Comparative Analysis.

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Long-Term Cancer Risk After Active Surveillance

Physician's Weekly

They implemented a nationwide population-based cohort study in Denmark, including all female residents diagnosed with incident cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 between ages 18–40 from 1998 to 2020. Stratified analyses by age, diagnosis year, and index cytology showed similar outcomes. 0.91]).

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Late HIV diagnosis still an issue in Aotearoa

Medical Xpress

Forty percent of people diagnosed with HIV in Aotearoa between 2011 and 2020 were diagnosed late, a University of Otago study shows.

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EmergiQuiz 2024 Online Case Diagnoses Revealed

PEMBlog

EmergiQuiz is an annual case-based presentation sponsored by the AAP Section on Emergency Medicine that challenges the audience to think through the differential diagnosis for four amazing cases. Since 2020 the AAP Section on Emergency Medicine has also been sponsoring the publication of online cases on EmergiQuiz.com.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

James Stevermer and Kenneth Fink wrote in an AFP editorial : Few men diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer will experience a mortality benefit, and an estimated 20% to 50% of those treated will never become symptomatic, even without treatment. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. and 6.1%, respectively).

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EmergiQuiz 2023 Online Case Diagnoses Revealed!

PEMBlog

EmergiQuiz is an annual case-based presentation sponsored by the AAP Section on Emergency Medicine that challenges the audience to think through the differential diagnosis for four amazing cases. Since 2020 the AAP Section on Emergency Medicine has also been sponsoring the publication of online cases on EmergiQuiz.com.