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Breaking ICD Codes: Identifying Ambiguous Respiratory Infection Codes via Regional Diagnosis Heterogeneity [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

PURPOSE We aimed to analyze regional variations in the assignment of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes to acute respiratory infections, seeking to identify notable anomalies that suggest diverse diagnoses of the same condition.

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Differences in Confidence Levels in Eight Sources of Information between Rural and Urban Cancer Patients and Survivors [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Using the component analysis, eight information sources were regrouped according to the relevance: structured (doctor, government, scientist, and charity), non-structured (family and religion), and semi-structured (social media and health system). The trust level was not statistically significant in social media by cancer status. Conclusions.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law

The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. Prescribing Red Flags The government alleged that from at least 2017 to April 2021 Defendants knowingly filled controlled substance prescriptions “that raised obvious ’red flags’ of potential abuse or diversion.” Zarzamora Press Release. Complaint ¶ 55.

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A patient’s perspective: The evolving landscape of IBD

ABIM

and Globally IBD is no longer a rare diagnosis. IBD is also increasingly being diagnosed in racial and ethnic minorities, children, and older adults. Now, in 2025, it’s both validating and heartbreaking to see the rise in IBD diagnoses in Peru. The Rising Incidence of IBD in the U.S. It is now a growing global health issue.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections.