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Family Medicine Initiative
APRIL 29, 2025
In November 2024, two new RCTs were published that investigated whether atrial fibrillation screening using an ECG is effective. A limitation was that only 49% of those invited participated in the screening. UK National Screening Committee (2019): “Screening is not currently recommended for this condition.”
Imperial Center Family Medicine
MAY 12, 2025
Check with your doctor about safe alcohol consumption given your individual health profile. You Can Stop Taking Medication If Your Numbers Improve Being diagnosed with hypertension means a lifetime of managing this condition through some combination of medication and lifestyle adjustments.
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Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Cervical cancer screening rates among middle to older age Latinas (>45yrs) - roughly 6.5 Methods: In-depth semi-structured interviews using the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology. Methods: In-depth semi-structured interviews using the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology.
GeriPal
APRIL 3, 2025
We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. So this is something. We did a role play.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 27, 2022
James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients. James: Yeah.
GeriPal
JULY 28, 2022
I had it on my screen. And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 1, 2023
I think that the actuarial data are compelling, that elevated amyloid alone in some individuals can lead to downstream dementia. I haven’t yet seen those clinical trials with beta-amyloid in asymptomatic individuals to allow me to reach that conclusion. That’s what got hyperlipidemia turned into hyperlipidemia.
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