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Passive Digital Marker Can Identify Childhood Asthma Risk

Physician's Weekly

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — It is feasible to use electronic health record (EHR) data in the Pediatric Asthma Risk Score (PARS) to accurately predict childhood asthma risk, according to a study published in the June issue of eClinicalMedicine. Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

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Migraine headaches: diagnostic and treatment tips

Common Sense Family Doctor

An article on acute migraine headaches in the April 2025 issue of American Family Physician reviewed current treatment strategies for acute migraine headaches, which “account for … 3.6 million primary care visits annually and are the fifth most common reason for emergency department visits” in the United States.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Ethical and practical. We got our pink ribbons.

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Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

Common Sense Family Doctor

Barriers to implementing findings from lung cancer screening trials into typical clinical practice include the nonrepresentative nature of research participants (younger, healthier, and less racially and geographically diverse than the target populations) and the superior infrastructure and clinical support available to them.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. But there are times that a primary care physician or an internal medicine physician may make the referral. But in my practice it’s usually from another oncologist, typically a medical oncologist.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. And in addition, my work in palliative care, I also am a clinical ethicist. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. Ivermectin to treat cancer.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. In the primary care practices that received the advance care planning intervention, rates of advance care planning were higher (about double). Eric 06:26 Great.