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Aftershock in Academia: Assessing COVID-19s Impact on Schizophrenia Patients in Academic Medical Centers [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

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. Setting: AMCs within the US.

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Dual-Energy CT Advances Arthritis Imaging

Physician's Weekly

The single-center study, published in the June 2025 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatology, investigators assessed the effectiveness of contrast-enhanced dual-energy CT (CE-DECT) in detecting and differentiating rheumatic joint diseases of the hand. They consecutively enrolled patients with suspected hand arthritis during standard clinical care.

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Postural Sway Velocity Effective for Assessing Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

Physician's Weekly

Patients with this condition experience “symmetric distal degeneration of peripheral nerves and impaired nerve regeneration,” according to the study authors. Traditional DPN Screening Methods Diagnosing and treating DPN has traditionally been a multi-step process. Healthy participants had the lowest TCNS scores (1.78±0.86),

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. At its core, the technology utilizes sophisticated speech recognition to transcribe a conversation in the exam room or at the bedside. The result?

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

19:05 Clarifying the “ethics vs science” argument and critiquing research techniques 22:00 Resurgence of race-based speculation in COVID-19-related research 25:57 Implantation of ideas about innate racial inferiority within medicine 28:32 Will removal of race from algorithms potentially harm our patients?

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

GeriPal

Joseph Gaugler is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota, director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of the Gerontologist. Who should get it if anyone? What should we use to screen individuals? Is that right, Soo? Joe 01:15 Yes.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

This simple challenge was focused on putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients with dysphagia who are prescribed thickened liquids. And I think that we’re at this kind of crossroads right now in dysphagia, and dysphagia management where our patients are suffering. We revisit it, and make things better for our patients.

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