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AI Model Can Aid Physicians in Skin Cancer Diagnoses

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The PanDerm artificial intelligence (AI) model improves skin cancer diagnosis when used by doctors, according to a research article published online June 6 in Nature Medicine. Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

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Migraine headaches: diagnostic and treatment tips

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

A retrospective analysis of characteristics of 15 consecutive years of code stroke cases at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, found that patients who were ultimately diagnosed with migraine headache with aura (1.1%) were more likely to be younger, female, and have fewer vascular risk factors than patients with ischemic strokes.

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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

MAY 20, 2025

Among those diagnosed with depression and/or anxiety, 62% of patients whose healthcare provider did not use PGx testing wish they had been informed about it. “I Roberts was struggling with her mental health after a string of painful life events, including her mother’s passing and other family members’ chronic health issues. “My

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Incidence Rates of Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma Increasing

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The incidence rates of appendiceal adenocarcinoma (AA) increased after 1945, according to a study published online June 10 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Abstract/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required) Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. Andreana N. Holowatyj, Ph.D.,

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A patient’s perspective: The evolving landscape of IBD

ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

IBD is also increasingly being diagnosed in racial and ethnic minorities, children, and older adults. With no family history and little cultural awareness of the disease, I was left wondering why or how this had happened to me. Now, in 2025, it’s both validating and heartbreaking to see the rise in IBD diagnoses in Peru.

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Focusing a lot on when to image, when not to image, and how to communicate imaging decisions effectively with families.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family. Caregivers too.

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A Physician’s Take on President Biden’s Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

Altitude Family & Internal Medicine

MAY 31, 2025

Altitude Family & Internal Medicine (303) 730-2167 A Physicians Take on President Bidens Prostate Cancer Diagnosis A Physicians Take on President Bidens Prostate Cancer Diagnosis In May 2025, the news hit hard: former President Joe Biden, at 82 years old, was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And if the doctors still come up with different diagnoses or perceptions of what’s happening with the patient and or treatment plans, that’s all on them. They were not touching the patient, and they were more likely to be looking at the nurse or the vital signs tracing than the patient or the family member.

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

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. What is your function? And do you die?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South , a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses. Half of new diagnoses today are in the South and a third are among people with low incomes. He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. HHS Secretary Robert F.

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