Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

I’m the Vice Chairman of Rheumatology at the Cleveland Clinic and the co-director of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research. And I’m here today to talk about giant cell arteritis in clinical practice. We don’t want to overtreat GCA, but again, under diagnosing it has life altering consequences.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

George 03:01 So I would say that as many clinical issues in older adults, we need to think about them in two ways. And we can talk about that later in terms of potential clinical implications that may have code. How do you think about this from a clinical perspective when you’re seeing individuals in your office?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Among patients who have never smoked—“never-smokers”—those with lung cancer (LC) are more likely to have been diagnosed with an inflammatory disease, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Mining Data The researchers mined electronic medical record data from the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Jessie: Yes. Why would that be?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? I think the very simple, practical thing is involuntary weight loss. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary There is a growing push to change how we define Alzheimer’s disease from what was historically a clinically defined syndrome to a newer biological definition based on the presence of positive amyloid biomarkers. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials. Alex: That’s right.

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