PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , Brad Sobolewski discusses advanced imaging in pediatric emergency care with Dr. Jennifer Marin ( jennifer.marin@chp.edu ) from UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh. 2024-066854. 2024-066855. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854. doi:10.1542/peds.2024-066854.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 28, 2025

70 people (14%) have been hospitalized for serious illnesses, and one child and one adult have died. For comparison, there were 285 cases of measles in the United States in 2024, and there have already been more reported cases than in all but two years since 2000.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied – The Vizient® Clinical Data Base was queried for inpatient discharges between January 2016 and February 2024 with an ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for naegleriasis (B60.2). Study Design and Setting: Retrospective case series. Outcome Measures: Number of cases, LOS, mortality rate.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. Hypertensive emergencies can result either from primary or secondary hypertension.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” While everyone says we should be doing this to the best science available, every hospital has a different interpretation of that. Is this a new onset depression?

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Pediatr Rev. Pediatrics.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. They could have a prognosis of years, or decades. Eric: Yeah.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Rescheduling Recommendation, 2024 FDA’s 2023 analysis and recommendation finally came to light when Texas attorney Matt Zorn posted it on his website a week ago. DEA found in 2016 that marijuana met none of the of elements and therefore did not have a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. I’m embedded in the ICU in one of our smaller hospitals.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And then for Hsien and for Sammy, this is a real social movement that you’re trying to… The movement upstream, getting people to consider what are the serious issues at the time of diagnosis with serious illness. Alex: Generally in the hospital-based hospice.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Yet another rejection was a proposal requiring a diagnosis on Medicaid prescriptions as a condition for claims payment. Despite the removal of some of the most controversial proposals, the final rule still contains a variety of significant changes, which become effective on November 19, 2024. The most noteworthy are the following: 1.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all. They’ve been in the hospital twice in the last six weeks.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? For the foreseeable future, it’s going to be right 90%, 95%, 85%, so the safety system, of course, will be, the AI says something, makes a recommendation or gives you a draft diagnosis or drafts your note, and then, the failsafe is, the doctor reads it over. This is GPT-4.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Knowing I was interested in neurology and had opportunities to observe brain death determination in the hospital. So in the case of Jahi McMath, you were talking about, you know, her family was kicked out of the hospital. Alex 04:49 Amyloid.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. And I was terrified.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. You didn’t ask about it, but for us, it was very important to examine differences for older adults with a diagnosis of dementia. Alex 03:54 Very generous. Eric 03:57 Okay, we got a lot to talk about.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Losing Memory, and Other Things, Too Kennedy’s diagnosis led him to retire, ending a decades-long career as a software engineer at the University of Scranton. They have given him purpose, Kennedy said, and help him cope with negative emotions around his diagnosis. Socializing can also become more difficult after diagnosis.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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PEMBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Approximately 1 half of the severe cases of vitamin k deficient bleeding are associated with parental refusal vitamin k during the birth and hospitalization. These are some of the points in the history that could lead to you making the diagnosis. 1997 Jan;99(1).

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. Available at: [link] Accessed December 3, 2024. In this episode, we’ll go over clinical presentation, diagnosis management, infection control, and post exposure protocols.

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