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Clinical Strategies and Challenges of Psychiatrists in Accra, Ghana [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

The authors aimed to determine these approaches and barriers to better understand the scope of mental health delivery from the perspective of psychiatrists working in the capital city of Accra. The authors analyzed interview content using an immersion-crystallization approach, both individually and as a group.

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Validation of Mood and Anxiety Disorder Case Definitions using Primary Care Electronics Medical Records [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Mental health conditions have increasing prevalence, co-occurrence, and high management burden within primary care settings. Results: Definition 11 captured anxiety, depression, and bi-polar diagnoses with sen 80.7, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder), and schizophrenia. spec 88.7, and NPV 95.7 spec 94.2, spec 87.9,

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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) disproportionately impacts persons with substance use and mental health disorders within the United States. A small-scale, peer navigation focused micro-elimination project was launched to facilitate treatment engagement and re-testing for individuals experiencing elevated risk of HCV re-infection.

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Detecting hidden brain states with mathematical models

Medical Xpress

Mental health disorders can only be diagnosed on the basis of symptoms—and individual outcomes cannot be accurately predicted. An ETH scientist hopes to change that with the help of mathematical models.

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Recognizing and Preventing SIBO: Your Comprehensive Guide

AMMD

Studies estimate that 6-15% of healthy individuals and up to 80% of IBS sufferers may have SIBO (1). Non-Digestive Symptoms You’ve probably heard that gut health affects mental health. The same can be said about gut health and energy levels, skin, and metabolism. In functional medicine, we see the whole person.

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. No single company will come up with such software because they don’t have access to the AI data developed by individual companies.

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How can you improve your relationship with food?

Vida Family Medicine

These behaviors can be physically and psychologically harmful even if the person does not meet full criteria for being diagnosed with an eating disorder. Food is an important part of life- for our physical health, mental health, and our social well being and enjoyment of life.