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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Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

PURPOSE Although studies have shown that more temporally regular (TR) primary care visits are associated with improved patient outcomes, none have examined what clinic staff can do to encourage greater TR visits. RESULTS Themes emerged regarding best ways to promote regular follow-up of patients with chronic conditions.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

She spends her free time with her husband, fellow clinical problem solver Zaven Sargsyan, and their ever-more-mobile 8-month-old son. Diagnosis The patient was found to have extensive bilateral consolidations on computed tomography of the chest. Female physicians face many challenges in the clinical environment.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

So, which patients should get them first? Patients ask me these questions fairly often, so I know it’s important for GPs to know the key facts. Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – ⅔ of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? Does the rebound effect really exist?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Clinical Reasoning Corner: Likelihood Ratios By Jack Penner Welcome back, Clinical Problem Solvers! Thank you for reading the latest post in our “Clinical Reasoning Corner”, where we discuss key clinical reasoning principles that shape how we think through cases. The inverse also holds true An LR of 0.5

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

With all this progress comes a significant issue burnout for patients and clinicians. The daily grind of monitoring blood glucose levels, adjusting medications, and managing complications can be exhausting. With millions of patients requiring monitoring and treatment adjustments, the healthcare system is stretched thin.

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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 15, 2025

The following is a summary of “Clinical and imaging strategies for the assessment of the ocular side effects of systemic targeted anti-cancer therapies,” published in the April 2025 issue of the European Journal of Cancer by Michaels et al.

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Canadian Family Physician

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Objective To highlight the escalating need for enhanced education on foreskin care among patients and health care providers, particularly as neonatal circumcision rates decline. When available, evidence from systematic reviews, relevant clinical guidelines, and randomized controlled trials were incorporated.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Our Mesa clinic offers same-week appointments for preventive services, making it convenient for busy families to prioritize their health. Regular preventive care helps our Mesa patients address these regional health concerns proactively, leading to better outcomes and reduced healthcare costs for our community.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The availability of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device has significantly impacted its management; whether it would be a useful tool to engage patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2 in their care, is unclear. However, 49% worried about the future and possibility of serious complications.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

In this study, we report a new case of rare POLR3A variants in a 6-year-old female patient sharing common genetic and neuropsychological profiles of POLR3-related disorders, although without revealing the classic MRI phenotype and severe clinical signs of POLR3-related leukodystrophy, such as diffuse hypomyelination. 2929 C > T).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Patients with ulcerative colitis report better quality of life after IPAA, but bowel symptoms like urgency and incontinence continue to have a negative impact. They asked the patients with various pouch-related conditions about their post-IPAA experiences and symptoms. Barnes, MD, MPH tells Physician’s Weekly ( PW ).

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NPR Health - Shots

AUGUST 29, 2022

Many hospitals and health care clinics in the U.S. are affiliated with the Catholic Church, which means religious directives might limit the types of contraception they can offer.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A model with eight independent risk factors can predict the risk for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), according to a study published online June 10 in Menopause. Eighty-one of the 300 patients in the modeling group developed DVT (incidence rate, 27.00

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Check credentials through reliable websites like: American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) Don’t hesitate to ask the clinic or hospital about the doctor’s credentials. Ask: How many Type 2 diabetes patients do they treat each month?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

An expert panel unveiled a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia patient care. An expert panel has created a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid healthcare professionals in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia care for patients.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

According to a study published in Pediatric Research , the technology aims to close a diagnostic gap in neonatal intensive care units, where repeated phlebotomy can exacerbate anemia and complicate care plans. “ The post Drop‑of‑Blood Assay Analyzes Neonatal Immune Status in Real Time first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

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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. That experience helped convince her to pursue medicine.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Fontana and Gitanjali Srivastava, MD , shared their perspectives with PW about current and potential MASLD treatments and their impacts on patient care. However, these approaches are not 100% effective, and even some patients with morbid obesity who lose a great deal of weight with bariatric surgery do not realize a liver benefit.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2019

Welcome back, Clinical Problem Solvers! However, the patient continued to be symptomatic and he returned for further evaluation. Clinical Manifestations We often think of GPA as a pulmonary-renal syndrome, but, while many patients develop renal complications, a much smaller percentage present with them.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only. A recent analysis of the U.S.

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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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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Leonard Calabrese, DO, Paras Karmacharya, MD, MS, and Adam Kilian, MD, break down why giant cell arteritis (GCA) demands immediate action, explain how to confirm diagnosis quickly, and what same-day treatment options like upadacitinib (Rinvoq) mean for patient care. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Dr. Len Calabrese. Hello everyone.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 17, 2023

These kinds of bone density issues are common among spinal surgery patients who are 50 and older. To avoid surgical complications, Mayo Clinic works with these patients on improving bone health before spinal surgery.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

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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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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

This series is meant to reinforce simple “tools” that internists use to solve clinical problems. One of the best lessons I learned from a master clinician regarding how he came to seemingly master all things complicated, “Master the simple things, first.” ” We hope you enjoy!

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CDOCS

AUGUST 12, 2019

<p>With all the recent interest in Azento and Astra EV, I thought I'd share a case with a couple of tips to help you avoid a couple of complications I encountered during a procedure.</p> As this patient would be returning to her referring doctor for the final prosthesis, I chose the custom healing abutment solution only.

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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.

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AMMD

JUNE 4, 2025

Rather than focusing on restriction , think of this as a way to protect your thyroid and help reduce the risk of further complications. Many of these habits I listed out below, I have adopted myself or recommended to my patients when I had my practice. Begin with just one or two and build momentum over time.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000845 The appetite for and ability to collect accurate digital patient-level data in low-resource settings has fueled numerous massive global health initiatives. Mobile phone penetration has finally exceeded 90% in low- and middle-income countries.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal. According to Epic, the number of patient messages spiked 151 percent nationally from the period covering the first 11 weeks of 2020 through the end of the year. Crucial that we fix this. Absolutely.

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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.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

First, to meet protein needs, patients can be counseled to include 30 grams of high-quality protein sources at each meal. I envision primary care clinicians playing an important role in assessing the individual needs of the older adult patient and helping them access essential elements of the care plan.

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

In this episode, we tackle the clinical mischief of Parvovirus B19 , a common viral infection with a surprisingly wide range of manifestationsfrom the classic slapped cheek rash of erythema infectiosum to aplastic crises in children with hemolytic anemias and fetal hydrops in pregnant contacts. UpToDate , Jun. link] Edwards, Morven S.

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