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Presence of Cardiomyopathy in DLBCL Drives Treatment Decisions

Physician's Weekly

The survey presented two patient vignettes and analyzed the respondents’ preferred treatment choices for patients with cardiac risk, use of cardioprotective strategies, post-treatment surveillance, and willingness to participate in clinical trials. She has no cardiopulmonary symptoms, ECOG PS 0, and no other comorbidities.”

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A patient’s perspective: The evolving landscape of IBD

ABIM

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. I now know that the symptom I initially presented with—perianal fistulas—was a hallmark of Crohn’s disease.

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Why Identifying and Managing Giant Cell Arteritis as an Emergency Is Crucial

Physician's Weekly

Giant cell arteritis is one of the most common when we see it, particularly when it presents with signs and symptoms of head and neck ischemia. We don’t want to overtreat GCA, but again, under diagnosing it has life altering consequences. Now let’s talk about how we can confirm the diagnosis of GCA.

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

FDA Law

12, 2012). “[W]hen the circumstances surrounding the presentation of a prescription would give rise to suspicion in a ‘reasonable professional,’ there is a duty to question the prescription.” Holiday CVS, L.L.C. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy, Nos. 219 and 5195; Decision and Order , 77 Fed. 62,316, 62,342 (Oct. Holiday CVS , 77 Fed. Complaint ¶ 62.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

The company works closely with a continuously growing number of insurance companies in Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, the UK, in the Netherlands among others, as well as with companies offering this service to their employees. So far, this dermatology app has been used by 3.5 million instances globally by almost 2 million users.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. 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.

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