PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Counsel families and caregiversincluding pregnant household contactson the risks, exposures, and infection control considerations related to Parvovirus B19. Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis of Parvovirus B19 Infection. It is a non-enveloped, single-stranded DNA virus in the Parvoviridae family. UpToDate , Jun. Parvoviruses.

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Complication Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 83

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cervical cancer screening rates among middle to older age Latinas (>45yrs) - roughly 6.5 Cancer Screening: Challenges with making appointments and getting PAP Smears due to time, employment, transportation, and lack of established primary care provider. Only a few received stage 1 diagnoses. million people in the U.S.

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Diagnosis Screening Transportation Diagnose 130

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. Internal medicine is a medical specialty focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. What Is Internal Medicine?

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Myriad Genetics

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

November is Family Health History Month, an observance dedicated to sharing crucial health information within families and encouraging individuals to take proactive steps in their healthcare. Understanding your family’s health history, particularly with hereditary conditions like cancer, can be lifesaving.

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Family Families Screening Individual 52

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? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Does a good history matter anymore?

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Myriad Genetics

APRIL 10, 2024

Dr. Brodsky inquired about her family, and she told him that both sides of her family had an extensive history of ovarian cancer and breast cancer. “I When the bloating didn’t subside, she got further testing and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She was wondering if she should be tested for this “BRCA gene.”

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Myriad Genetics

MARCH 19, 2024

A study by the American Cancer Society and published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians found that half of all new colorectal cancer diagnoses are in people 66 and younger. Another key issue is family history. was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer when he was just 27 years old. Singleton’s story In 2015, J.J.

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Individual Screening Diagnose Families 52

Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

This plaque buildup is known as atherosclerosis, which can cause cardiac disease, stroke, and other severe conditions – making early cholesterol screening essential. Routine cholesterol screenings help assess your risk for cardiovascular disease so you and your healthcare provider can better understand your overall heart health.

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Screening Healthcare Family Medicine DO 52

Myriad Genetics

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Storm was first diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in January 2024 and underwent a lumpectomy shortly after. Her routine mammogram had detected something suspicious, prompting an ultrasound, which lead to a biopsy, which ultimately lead to her diagnosis. After her diagnosis and treatment, Storm reflected on her experience.

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Diagnosis Diagnose Family Families 52

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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Families Family IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

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?

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We discuss with her how we should work-up and manage “urinary tract infections” (I’ve added air quotes to “UTI” in honor of Tom Finucane’s JAGS article titled “Urinary Tract Infection”—Requiem for a Heavyweight in which he advocated to put air quotes around the term UTI due to the ambiguity of the diagnosis.). Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org.

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Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. I had it on my screen. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Jennifer: Yeah.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. We know that a lot of times with cancer screening, you don’t actually get benefits right away and it can cause potential harms right away.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

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. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. I’m connecting.

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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 Provider Clinic 94

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

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Eric: Like since a little kid? Eric: Yeah?

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. Other people say, oh, no, this is just normal cognitive aging.

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