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Staff perspectives of a novel integrated community care hub in an urban underserved population (UK) [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

o Context or Objective: The UK is witnessing an increase in emergency department use and hospital admissions for children and young people from underserved populations, exacerbated in the UK by continued issues around access to primary care.

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CT Colonography Cost-Effective, Clinically Effective for CRC Screening

Physician's Weekly

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Computed tomography colonography (CTC) is cost-effective and clinically effective for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, according to a study published online June 10 in Radiology. Pickhardt, M.D., All rights reserved.

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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Could Be First-Line Therapy for C. Difficile

Physician's Weekly

from Oslo University Hospital in Norway, and colleagues examined the efficacy and safety of FMT in primary CDI in a randomized, open-label, noninferiority trial. The researchers found that clinical cure and no disease recurrence within 60 days without additional treatment was observed in 66.7 Frederik Emil Juul, M.D., Additional C.

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Prescribing ADHD Meds by Telehealth Does Not Alter Risk for Substance Use Disorder Overall

Physician's Weekly

from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record data from March 1, 2020, to Aug. from Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a statement. “Our study supports the use of telehealth for ADHD stimulant therapy in clinical settings.”

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Passive Digital Marker Can Identify Childhood Asthma Risk

Physician's Weekly

. “Our hope is that using the childhood asthma passive digital marker in clinical practice will improve the early detection of asthma risk in high-risk children, allowing for earlier interventions that could improve asthma control and lessen the future risk of hospitalization,” Owora said in a statement.

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DASH Diet for Diabetes With Low Sodium Reduces BP in Those With Diabetes

Physician's Weekly

WEDNESDAY, June 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension for Diabetes (DASH4D) diet with lower sodium is tied to clinically meaningful blood pressure reduction in people with diabetes, according to a study published online June 9 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Pilla, M.D.,

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AI Model Can Aid Physicians in Skin Cancer Diagnoses

Physician's Weekly

Siyuan Yan, from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues developed PanDerm, which was pretrained through self-supervised learning on more than 2 million real-world skin disease images from 11 clinical institutions across four imaging modalities. percent across 128 skin conditions on clinical photographs.