Myriad Genetics

APRIL 26, 2024

Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month, observed in April, is a perfect opportunity to fix that, including sharing critical information about dense breasts. When breast cancer is diagnosed early, the chances of successful treatment and survival are significantly higher. Dense breast tissue is normal.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with schizophrenia who are admitted to academic medical centers (AMCs) has not been previously reported. Objective: To examine the epidemiology and mortality among schizophrenia patients discharged from AMCs in the U.S. from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023. Mixed models were used for analysis.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

APRIL 22, 2024

Whether you’re a parent, caregiver, educator, or simply curious about autism, this post aims to provide a comprehensive overview of what autism is and what it means for individuals and their families. It is often referred to as a “spectrum” because it manifests differently in each individual, ranging from mild to severe.

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Vascular Physician

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Because of this, it is common for blood to pool in the individual's leg or for them to develop deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which occurs when a blood clot forms in the deep veins of the leg. If your healthcare provider suspects that you could have May-Thurner syndrome, they will likely use noninvasive imaging studies to diagnose you.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Health insurance covers only very short visits that are limited to 1-2 problems per visit, leaving little time for patients to be able to share all of the relevant information about longstanding symptoms. If you have already been diagnosed with any medical conditions, write down all of the diagnoses you have.

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LEAD Physician

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Physicians must be leaders in their field to provide excellent patient care, manage a large team and coordinate between departments, and support their patient's overall health with information about prevention and maintenance. For example, a physician might be dealing with a patient who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

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Doctor On Demand

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Updated January 22, 2025 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a common respiratory infection that can affect individuals of all ages, but it is particularly prevalent in young children and older adults. Get RSV Treatment Today See an online doctor in minutes to get diagnosed and treated for RSV.

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Rao Doctor

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

F (37°C), although this can vary slightly among individuals and throughout the day. The pattern is essential in diagnosing diseases that rely heavily on timing and recurrence of fever spikes. The pronounced swings are significant indicators, providing critical clues for diagnosing severe infections. What does fever do?

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

If you’ve been diagnosed with an endocrine disorder, like diabetes or an underactive thyroid, or have symptoms that you worry are caused by a hormone imbalance, you may be considering seeing an endocrinologist. Endocrinologists are doctors who specialize in diagnosing and treating endocrine system disorders. What is an Endocrinologist?

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

Check with your doctor about safe alcohol consumption given your individual health profile. Tracking trends through home monitoring and informing your doctor can help verify if treatment is needed. However, even moderate habitual drinking can cause blood pressure to increase in some people.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Moreover, center patients not only in discussions about individual decision-making but in constructing and drawing meaning from the research. Returning to the early literature that informs the equations reminds us that this research demonstrated racially stratified differences between Black and white cohorts. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.13378

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? 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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Methods: In-depth semi-structured interviews using the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology. Cancer Prevention: Little to no awareness or information about cervical cancer. Only a few received stage 1 diagnoses. Verbatim transcripts in English and Spanish were analyzed in NVivo 14.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

One of the primary tools used in diagnosing fever is the thermometer, an instrument that measures body temperature. This information can help pinpoint possible causes of illness and guide further investigations. Fever can present alongside other symptoms, such as chills and fatigue, which may help in diagnosing the underlying cause.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. I’m thinking of chronic pain, for example, and individuals with chronic pain often have disturbed sleep or other conditions. The biomarker discovery is tremendous, and I think truly will change the entire way ADRD is diagnosed and conceptualized in some ways.

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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. 3 Individuals with a BRCA 1 mutation have a 50% chance of passing the mutation to any biological children.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The US Preventive Services Taskforce (USPSTF) recommends one-time Hepatitis C screening for all adults and routine periodic screening for higher-risk individuals and treatments are available that can cure more than 95% of people with Hepatitis C. Dataset(s): Ohio Integrated Behavioral Health Dashboard.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

The retrospective cohort study published in June 2025 in Frontiers of Endocrinology aimed to analyze the sex-based differences in the management and outcomes of individuals diagnosed with pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGLs). They assessed all individuals diagnosed with PPGLs from June 2005 to August 2024.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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Edge Family Medicine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

By identifying health issues in their initial stages, patients can make informed decisions and act promptly. Here’s why early detection matters: More Effective Treatment : Diagnosing diseases early allows for timely intervention, making treatments more effective, less invasive, and often less costly.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. Yes, over diagnosed in older adults are about right.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Then I would say any clear deficits in thinking, vision, physical mobility, big new diagnoses, those; certainly cognitive changes, because that’s a really big one in terms of risk. Alex: Yeah. Emmy: Yeah.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. The provider examines your throat, may perform tests like a strep test, and diagnoses the cause. This two-step approach helps doctors quickly diagnose strep throat while ensuring they don’t miss cases that the rapid test fails to detect.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

So what is the role of individuals like geriatricians in prescribing amyloid antibodies and caring for individuals who are receiving them? And I do think geriatricians need to as individuals make that decision, largely based on their comfort with the diagnostics and the specifics of the therapeutics. I’m a prescriber.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” This is Eric Widera. Eric: Lynn or Anne?

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She aims to become a physician-scientist in pediatrics and medical genetics, engaging in bench-to-bedside research that utilizes multi-omics-based approaches to provide a molecular diagnosis and support personalized care for individuals with suspected rare genetic diseases and their families. References Jeanmonod R, Asuka E, Jeanmonod D.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

Very interested in decision making around as we get older, individualizing care, sort of patient centered, values driven, it’s a tough decision to figure out. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. I appreciate that information. I hear it’s over diagnosed.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. Should we have like a list of diagnoses or prognosis. They need, they need some, a little bit of information and probably a little more than that, what we like to call an edge. Alex: It gets very local and individualizes as you were saying.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But it might underestimate it because lots of mild cases don’t actually present clinically, and they’re not diagnosed endoscopically. The best way to diagnose this is through imaging like CT scans. And again, The awake flexible fiber optic laryngoscope is the gold standard for diagnosing laryngomalacia.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

And that’s another huge source of data and that’s the data that generally informs the USPSTF and other guidelines. If you know that there’s a group that you don’t treat even after they’re diagnosed, it causes anxiety, but you’re not causing them harms from treatment. What are your thoughts?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

I think some individuals thought there was cherry-picking of stories that made it seem like hospice is this bad thing, that it’s taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and it didn’t talk enough about the good things that hospice does. On the other side, there’s another group that thinks, you know what?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Essentially we’re testing the early integrated palliative care model, which is monthly visits with a specialty trained palliative care physician or advanced practice provider for patients who are diagnosed with advanced non small cell lung cancer. But it really does need some individualizing. So it matters. Joe 41:30 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. It was about me talking about what happens about six months, when you have six months or less to live, the general information of what people usually look like.

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