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Factors Influencing Self-Care Behavior in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease

Physician's Weekly

The study published in the April 2025 issue of BMC Nephrology abour Chronic kidney disease (CKD) which poses significant health risks, including cardiovascular complications and reduced QoL. Age, education, and health literacy emerged as key drivers of self-care behavior in individuals with chronic kidney disease.

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Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

and foreign medical graduates matching into family medicine residency programs over the past five years will fall well short of supplying an additional 52,000 primary care physicians by 2025 , a shortage projected by the Robert Graham Center. Image courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians Modest gains in the numbers of U.S.

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Natural History of Asymptomatic Renal Stones Before RC

Physician's Weekly

published in the May 2025 issue of World Journal of Urology by Savin et al. The primary endpoints were 90-day postoperative complications, stone-related adverse events (AEs), and spontaneous stone passage (SSP) during follow-up. The 1-year cumulative incidence of stone-related AEs was 10%, while SSP occurred 47%.

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Safety of Stent Placement by Non-Urologic Surgeons

Physician's Weekly

Reported complications included hematuria lasting ≥3 days (0.9%), AK) (4.4%), urinary retention (3.3%), UTI (2.7%), urethral injury (0.4%), and ureteral injury (0.5%). Reported complications included hematuria lasting ≥3 days (0.9%), AK) (4.4%), urinary retention (3.3%), UTI (2.7%), urethral injury (0.4%), and ureteral injury (0.5%).

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Ozone Injection Into Intervertebral Foramen for Chronic Postherpetic Neuralgia Treatment

Physician's Weekly

In a 1-year follow-up study published in the May 2025 issue of Frontiers in Neurology regarding c hronic intractable postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), QoL severely affects after herpes zoster (HZ). No serious complications were reported. Hyperalgesia area decreased by 52.35% (3.11 ± 0.70) immediately and 87.41% (0.82 ± 0.50) in 6 months.

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New Model Developed for Identifying DVT in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

Physician's Weekly

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A model with eight independent risk factors can predict the risk for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), according to a study published online June 10 in Menopause. Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

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Ocular Toxicities of Targeted Cancer Therapies

Physician's Weekly

The following is a summary of “Clinical and imaging strategies for the assessment of the ocular side effects of systemic targeted anti-cancer therapies,” published in the April 2025 issue of the European Journal of Cancer by Michaels et al.