Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Secondary outcomes included the use of primary and secondary healthcare, nursing home (NH) admission, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), satisfaction, and mortality. The results showed that 303 individuals were recruited with a mean age of 83.2 Functional decline occurred 26.4% at 30 days and 33.7% at 180 days.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 21, 2025

Researchers identified key facilitators, behaviors , and barriers to psychiatrists’ involvement in implementing Safewards and other quality improvement initiatives. They used semi-structured interviews and inductive content analysis, 10 psychiatrists from 9 psychiatric clinics in Sweden were recruited through convenience sampling.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

“The specific aim of the Commission was to establish objective criteria for disease diagnosis, aiding clinical decision making and prioritization of therapeutic interventions and public health strategies,” wrote W. It should not be used as an individual measure of health. › Timothy Garvey, MD, and colleagues.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

These could even make cough monitoring as common as step tracking to inform individual patients and provide doctors with deeper health insights. In this article, we will consider the digital health tools that are facilitating cough monitoring. It’s going to transform the whole clinical approach for this common and chronic symptom.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Notable gains were also seen in the NYHA functional class and NT-proBNP levels in 1 year. Investigators concluded that semaglutide significantly improved health status and mood in individuals with HF and obesity, with these benefits closely associated with weight loss.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

Eligible participants were individuals with dementia (diagnosed or suspected), aged ≥ 72 years, receiving 1 or more antidepressants, and residing in a nursing home associated with the participating physician. Most individuals were women, with a median age of 85 years. On average, participants were prescribed 9 different medications.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 10, 2025

We consider such collaborations in this article. It is an individual tool designed to function in this fashion. Subsequently, they can aid in designing clinical trials with adequate patients. This trend is likely to equally impact healthcare leaders, and they will have to manage a new type of collaboration.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To examine the impact of discontinuation of statins compared to continuation on clinical outcomes. Two independent reviewers screened titles/abstracts, full-text articles, and extracted data. Our findings underscore the need for RCT evidence in appropriately selected individuals, to guide clinical decision-making.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

Weighted logistic regression, stratified analyses, restricted cubic spline (RCS), and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses were performed, adjusting for demographic and clinical confounders. The results showed that 10% of participants had at-risk NASH. Source: frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/10.3389/fendo.2025.1604991/full

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.” Remembering to eat or not eat, or what to eat, before being tested. The list goes on.

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AMMD

MAY 6, 2025

In functional medicine, we view the body as a group of systems working together rather than individual systems to be addressed one at a time. In this article, I explore how to support women again at every stage. As a woman in her 50s, I believe all women can achieve healthy aging with ease.

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 1, 2025

That’s how often Chelsea Mulheron finds herself asking women in her clinic about their family history of cancer. As a breast cancer health clinical care nurse navigator, Chelsea not only serves as a registered nurse at NMC, but also as a patient advocate, guiding individuals through the complexities of the healthcare system. “I

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Cost-sharing and education may improve access to GLP-1 therapies for obesity, but systemic barriers remain, requiring broader policy and clinical reforms. Other Persistent Barriers & Potential Solutions In another article not presented at the meeting, Stephanie W. They published their insights in Nature Medicine.

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BMJ

DECEMBER 16, 2021

following individual or groups of participants). 5) Conducting ethical LQR; researchers need to consider a number of ethical issues, discussed the article, as these are particularly important due to immersive and prolonged approach in LQR. The value of LQR There is great value in using LQR in family medicine. the COVID-19 pandemic).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

In the article, the researchers note that a minimum of 26 contact hours with the family is required for optimal prevention. However, we cannot overlook systemic factors, such as access to care, socioeconomic status, neighborhood safety, or walkability, that make it more challenging for some individuals to maintain a healthy weight.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 12, 2025

Sometimes, their private visions diverge from their public ones, and this article shares what they won’t admit publicly through four lenses. Progress in this field promises to reorient care around individual patients’ needs by treating patients as equal-level partners. One such trend is that of in silico clinical trials.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The District Court in this case, which came to the opposite conclusion and is now reversed, was a notable outlier in a string of cases in other circuits upholding FDA’s authority to regulate stem cell clinics on similar grounds as the Ninth Circuit did here. Stem Cell Clinic, LLC , 998 F.3d Regenerative Sciences, LLC , 741 F.3d

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Sound Physicians

APRIL 28, 2025

Still, we know that sometimes the final decision comes down to a single factor: cost. While we’ve earned our reputation over the decades for our clinical excellence in hospital medicine , we’ve also earned — somewhat unfairly — a reputation for being more expensive than our competitors. Physician compensation is tied to quality of care.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

The dehumanization of individuals of color at the margins of society by the healthcare system is not simply a thing of the past, and is certainly a persistent phenomenon. Cindy Gladue, Brian Sinclair, and Joyce Echaquan are three Indigenous individuals who suffered immense harm at the hands of the healthcare system.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In this article, I want to give you a clearer understanding of what concierge medicine is, why it’s gaining popularity, and how it might be a good fit for you. In a traditional healthcare setup, doctors are often overwhelmed with large patient rosters, leaving them with limited time for each individual. What is Concierge Medicine? "A

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Sonali Advani and Lona Mody talk about their recent JAGS article highlighting three recent articles that every clinician caring for older adults should be aware of in the treatment of infectious diseases (hint: I’ve never finished a course of antibiotics, and maybe your patients don’t need that full course either). AlexSmithMD.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

In an article for Obesity , researchers investigated how to better design lifestyle-based weight loss programs for older adults in order to address muscle and bone health concerns. Others may require comprehensive multidisciplinary care to address physical function impairment, psychosocial barriers, and medical complexity.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. This is Eric Widera.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We are a collective profession of high-earning and driven individuals. When determining if real estate should earn a place in your personal portfolio, consider a few statistics from Investopedia in an article titled Has Real Estate or the Stock Market Performed Better Historically? I understand the incentive, sure. Remember that.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Together, these two phenomenal guests help us understand the structural and individual challenges of Indigenous peoples in academic medicine, public health, and beyond. The Clinical Problem Solvers Podcast. Sophie Neuner, proud member of the Karuk Tribe, and a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

True we have a fulltime nanny, but we still both work full-time clinically and still wish to have a steady hand in our children’s lives. Second, we have had some unexpected transitions at my job, and this has left me to cover extra clinical obligations with some consistency. This may be a bold statement, but I believe it to be true.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. I’m guessing not. How to screen for hearing loss. Transcript.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Today we are coming back for more (or less given the content), talking about the following articles with their lead authors: First up, we talk with Ariel Green about her article in JAMA Network on preferred phrases a clinician may use to explain why they should reduce or stop the medication. Welcome, Ariel. Ariel: Thanks.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

So on today’s podcast we invite four brilliant individuals to talk about their perspective on how to change how we as a society and health care system partner with individuals with dementia. We’re going to be talking about things like creative engagement in individuals with dementia. Susan: Yeah, that was me.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This blog has connected me with so many incredible individuals over the years, and it let me know the importance of sharing our stories. Paving the Way When I first created this blog ten years ago, I was unsure if there were others out there like me, and this blog has connected me to so many great individuals on a similar path.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

On the other hand, there is a concerning side, described in this Guardian article titled, I’m a life coach, you’re a life coach: rise of an unregulated industry. I think in medicine, in particular and probably in all clinical specialties, there is this sense of a rival fallacy of, “When I finish residency, I’ll be happy.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

During that time, psychologist Herbert Freudenberger volunteered at a New York City free clinic treating addiction. He overheard the term and used it to describe himself and clinic staff in a 1974 article on staff burnout detailing long-term physical and psychological job stress. So what’s the real issue?

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? There’s an article about her in New York Times. Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. Who should get it if anyone?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

The following is a summary of “PLASMIC score to aid diagnosis of aHUS: an analysis of C5 inhibitor clinical trials and the PINC AI™ healthcare database,” published in the May 2025 issue of BMC Nephrology by Uriol-Rivera et al. Around 85% had scores ≤ 5 (range: 3–5), with similar distribution across trials. for detecting probable aHUS.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

If in your own work, your clinical work, is this something that you see people struggle with you, you see yourself struggle with? So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

There I was, extremely overly trained with brain stuff, and I wanted to learn how to do clinical research. I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. This is Eric Widera.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Registry-based prediction models were applied to estimate individual prior probabilities. Source: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-025-02687-4 The post Refined ICD Criteria Improved Outcomes and Reduced Costs first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

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