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Better Care Models Needed for Young Adults With Obesity

Physician's Weekly

To broaden the understanding of treatment patterns, the researchers investigated the prevalence of obesity -related complications and the use of obesity medication among young patients in the United States. Guidelines recommend treating obesity with medications and lifestyle changes.” The data spanned from January 2019 to March 2024.

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AI/ML-enabled Medical Devices Have Everyone’s Attention, Including FDA’s

FDA Law

Three of these articles focus on medical applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) and explore FDA’s role in regulating such products. The third article—“Your Medical Devices are Getting Smarter. The first article—“Is the Eye the Window to Alzheimer’s?”—discusses demographic bias of data fed to algorithms).

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Migraine headaches: diagnostic and treatment tips

Common Sense Family Doctor

The POUND mnemonic (ie, pulsatile quality, one-day duration, unilateral headache, nausea or vomiting, disabling intensity) can help clinicians make the diagnosis of migraine in primary care, and the Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) quantifies headache severity.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #3: It’s a Small World

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. Diagnosis is made based on history and slit lamp findings. Accessed June 18, 2024. Accessed June 18, 2024. Accessed June 18, 2024. Accessed June 20, 2024. This is the third of the four cases.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #1: Mission: SPACE

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? StatPearls , StatPearls Publishing, 2 February 2024. This is the first of the four cases. At that visit, his physical exam was normal. Moves all extremities equally against gravity.

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AMPLIFY™ Technology Enhances Prenatal Screening for 22q11.2 Microdeletion

Myriad Genetics

Infants and children with 22q deletions may benefit from early intervention based on the evaluation and long-term care by a multidisciplinary team of pediatric specialists aware of the wide spectrum of medical, neuropsychologic, and cognitive problems these children can encounter. Accessed February 22, 2024. Prenatal Diagnosis.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #4: Frozen Ever After

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. Given multiple areas of cortical hyperostosis in the absence of healing or acute fracture, a diagnosis of infantile cortical hyperostosis was made that was later confirmed with genetic testing. mg/dL] Phosphorus 6.7