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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. link] Accessed February 2023. None of them. It was the AI program ChatGPT.

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Should We Screen for Atrial Fibrillation? ESC Says Yes (2024), Evidence Says…?

Family Medicine Initiative

ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline (2023): “It is not yet established that patients at high risk of developing AF by a validated risk score benefit from screening.” Although not a guideline, still relevant: The German Arznei-Telegramm concluded in 2021, 2023, and 2024 that atrial fibrillation screening is not recommended in asymptomatic individuals.

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Loss of empathy is a key problem in people with frontotemporal dementia—here's what's happening in the brain

Medical Xpress

Frontotemporal dementia has gained significant attention in recent years after the family of actor Bruce Willis announced in 2023 that he had been diagnosed with the condition. A year later, it was revealed that US chat show host Wendy Williams had also been diagnosed with the condition.

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PEMPix 2023 Online Case 2: Walk Softly

PEMBlog

She was seen at an urgent care the day prior to presentation, diagnosed with a viral exanthem, and discharged with oral prednisone. Papular purpuric gloves and socks syndrome The patient was diagnosed with papular purpuric gloves and socks syndrome (PPGSS). Urticarial vasculitis Click here to reveal the correct answer B.

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PEMPix 2023 Online Case 1: A House Divided

PEMBlog

She was diagnosed with constipation. The patient was diagnosed with OHVIRA syndrome: O bstructed H emi v agina with I psilateral R enal A nomaly (aka Heryln-Wener-Wunderlch syndrome). This case was submitted by… A 12-year-old female was brought to your emergency department by her mother for 1 month of diffuse abdominal and back pain.

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

” Because the FDA first approved an RSV vaccine in 2023, the 2023-24 season provided “the first opportunity to see it in a real-world context,” said Pauline Terebuh, an epidemiologist at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and an author of a recent study in the journal JAMA Network Open.

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The negative impact of continued exclusion of racial groups from research on cancer genomics

Medical Xpress

New research in the March 2023 issue of JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network highlights how the lack of genomic research for people with African ancestry, particularly those from the Sub-Saharan region, is hampering efforts to reduce disparities for people with cancer.