AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The average age of a breast cancer diagnosis has statistically been around 65. Now, roughly 9% of breast cancer diagnoses are in women under age 45 with this percentage continually rising(1). I also did a screening blood test to look for circulating tumor cells, which I will have an article on this soon!

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Diagnosis Screening IT Patient-Centered 130

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The 80-year-old Ray Flynn lost his central vision entirely, but with the help of the retinal implant, he could make out shapes on the computer screen. It greatly helps physicians in remote areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa diagnose and treat patients. Google is not the only one working on A.I. solutions for eye care, though.

Diabetes 105

Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? And how do you think about it as a psychiatrist?

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

So in truth, I called it a b r because the Book On B t, you ever read that, Bob? Eric: Yeah, great book. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. Bob: No, but I know about it.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . When I was about nine-years-old, they gave me a book of poems of Edna St. In school, I was asked to write a book report, and instead of writing a book report, I wrote a poem that went. Vincent Millay.

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 115