Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

Demand for new obesity medications like semaglutide (GLP-1 analogs) is high, but availability is low. Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – ⅔ of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? So, which patients should get them first? What are the true benefits and side effects?

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 29, 2023

The world's first international clinical guidelines to help prevent and treat heart complications in children undergoing cancer treatment have been created.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Pre-existing dementia complicates cancer care and increases the risk of worse clinical outcomes and inferior patient experience, according to a review of studies exploring the intersection of dementia and cancer.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 20, 2022

After college, she worked at UCSF as a clinical research coordinator and patient navigator for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, helping them prepare questions for their doctor and accompanying them to appointments. Dr. Teng earned her medical degree from UCSF, then completed internal medicine residency at UCLA.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Managing Type 2 diabetes requires more than just medication—it demands a long-term partnership with a skilled healthcare provider who understands your individual needs. You want someone who treats it regularly and stays current on new medications, technologies, and management techniques.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

When dealing with chest congestion, it’s important to understand potential warning signs, as well as what type of medical care to seek for them. F or higher, chest pain, or blood in your saliva, you should consider seeking medical attention for chest congestion. Am I at risk for complications due to my medical history?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

in a decision curve analysis, indicating that the clinical value of the DVT nomogram model provided a net clinical benefit. “Identifying strategies and protocols to minimize or prevent treatment-related complications is essential to optimizing patient outcomes and quality of life,” Monica Christmas, M.D.,

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 28, 2025

Medical records were reviewed to classify each episode using the HANDOC score, CH-A, and Duke-ISCVID criteria. The results showed that 325 episodes of 308 individuals with NBHS BSIs were analyzed. The CH-A criterion of ‘any echocardiography’ yielded 100% sensitivity and 24% specificity.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The complement system defends the body against microbial intruders, but it can also attack the body's own cells for various reasons and therefore contribute to clinical complications. These complications range from age-related and chronic inflammatory diseases such as macular degeneration to the rejection of organ transplants.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 6, 2020

Avital O’Glasser presents a clinical unknown on Virtual Morning Report to CPSolvers, Jack and Reza. She is the medical director of OHSU’s hospitalist-led Pre-Operative Medicine Clinic, as well as The Curbsiders Kashlek Memorial Hospital Chief of Perioperative Medicine.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

They also nicely summarize drugs in development for MASLD and how various medications work in different ways to benefit the liver. MASLD is the leading reason for referral to a hepatologist in many US medical centers. The authors also talk about how some of the newer medications appear to confer benefit without any weight loss.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Dr. Barnes and colleagues conducted semistructured interviews at one academic pouch clinic and inflammatory bowel disease center with 15 patients who had undergone IPAA for ulcerative colitis. Dr. Gueorguieva: Restorative proctocolectomy with IPAA for patients with ulcerative colitis has various symptoms and complications.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results Participants reported that telehealth was acceptable for basic pregnancy check-ins, such as to monitor symptoms, discuss health concerns, and for information on medication safety. For example, telehealth was not viewed as user friendly for clinical use. Further, lower insurance reimbursement rates can limit its clinical use.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

METHOD/PARTICIPANTS: A 21-item survey questionnaire was mailed to 489 adult patients ages 18-75 with DM type 2 empaneled to 3 primary care clinics, who had hemoglobin A1c of =/>8% and who gave research authorization. However, 49% worried about the future and possibility of serious complications.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 29, 2020

at Boston Medical Center. Born and raised in Toronto, he attended Boston University for medical school and loved it so much that he stayed on for his internal medicine residency. He’s an aspiring cardiologist who is passionate about medical education.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field. Experts even say the eye is an ideal place to start for the first clinical use of CRISPR. EyeDecide can fully demonstrate the consequences of cataract or AMD and thus help patients understand their actual medical state.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 23, 2020

Logan Jones “Logan” Jones is a PGY-3 at OHSU in Portland, and will be joining the faculty as an assistant professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine with an academic focus on student assessment, curricular innovation, learner scholarship, clinical reasoning, and EMR proficiency. He completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 20, 2025

Liver cT1, a biomarker of liver inflammation and fibrosis, decreased slightly (by 1%, or 10 ms), but this change was not clinically significant. However, the concurrent loss of muscle mass—even in the context of favorable fat loss—can cause health complications, particularly in older adults.

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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. All of these are warning signs that visual symptom loss may be impending and thus represents a medical emergency.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Chae : The four pillars of obesity care is a helpful framework that defines the essential elements of obesity care, which include nutrition therapy, physical activity, behavioral modification, and, if clinically indicated, medical interventions (eg, medication management, bariatric procedures, and complication management).

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A recent study in JMIR Diabetes reported that patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) that have elevated levels of blood glucose and glycated hemoglobin are at higher risk of macro- and microvascular complications.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 17, 2023

To avoid surgical complications, Mayo Clinic works with these patients on improving bone health before spinal surgery. Osteopenia and osteoporosis are both conditions in which bones become less dense and, therefore, can break more easily. These kinds of bone density issues are common among spinal surgery patients who are 50 and older.

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PEMBlog

MAY 28, 2025

In pediatric patients, complications can evolve rapidly and carry significant morbidity and mortality. ED referrals are often prompted by incidental findings of proteinuria or hematuria, or clinical concerns for hypertensive encephalopathy or PRES. Avoid transfusion unless clinically necessary. PMID: 27977505. 2018.1518132.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 15, 2023

Scientists have developed a test that could greatly improve quality of life for infants with homocystinuria (HCU), a congenital disease that—if not treated early—causes serious complications. Research demonstrating the efficacy of this test was published today in Clinical Chemistry.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2022

SUD is often complicated by a repetitive pattern of abstinence-reinstatement and psychiatric comorbidities. It is plausible that SUD reflects a complex interplay between substance use, dependence features, clinical symptoms and personality traits.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

Donors, government ministries, agencies and academic partners regularly cascade requests for data that multiply and complicate the simple interaction into a complex, and often redundant, set of data requirements for the same singular interaction. Digital uptake is more prevalent in high-volume and urban hospital networks.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 5, 2023

Often, patients whose body mass index, or BMI, is too high aren't able to get a kidney transplant because of the higher risks of complications before and during surgery. But an innovative program at Mayo Clinic is giving patients hope by helping to break that barrier to transplant through a weight loss program.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We have a discussion about the decision to remove race, a social construct, from clinical risk calculators (though I’m not 100% sold that race should always be removed – if removal is likely to worsen disparities for example – at least until a superior race-blind calculator can be developed). Rasheeda, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2021

So much of clinical medicine is the identification of patterns. Parents of medically complex children know their kids better than I do. It’s complicated when we can’t identify what our job is. Medical training gave me the background to begin to learn all of this. Identify patterns. If I can’t show I can’t treat.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Diabetic retinopathy is a severe complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness. The Japanese clinical practice guidelines for diabetes recommend that individuals undergo a fundus examination at least once a year to screen for diabetic retinopathy.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

By Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Philip Won — Last week, our blog post advised planning a transition strategy in advance of the news of the termination of the Covid-19 public health emergency. The 2013 guidance documents include, but are not limited to, in vitro diagnostic and clinical trial considerations.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This case was submitted by Dr. Inbar Plaut PEM Fellow at UMASS Chan Medical School | UMASS Memorial Children’s Medical Center IG handle(s): @inbar.y, @umasspem Co-author: Zachary Binder The Case A 2-month-old male presents with 2-days of reluctance to move the right lower extremity. This is the last of the four cases. J Clin Invest.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations. Are medications part of that, too? So, a lot of medications, you can see the secondary effects of dysphagia causing those, as well. Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? Nicole: Yes.

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

We need to recognize how clinical dentistry has become intertwined with digital technologies to synergistically assist us in providing enhanced diagnosis with safe and predictable treatment outcomes. & Intra-oral photographs were taken and after reviewing his medical history we discussed his desires for a fixed replacement of these teeth.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

And as suggested recently in the New England Journal of Medicine , One of the most important factors at play in the clinical environment is the apparent tension between availability and attention. The zero-sum medical day In many healthcare systems the Epic feature is turned on and health professionals are expected to respond.

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