Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

The specific aim of the Commission was to establish objective criteria for disease diagnosis, aiding clinical decision making and prioritization of therapeutic interventions and public health strategies,” wrote W. It should not be used as an individual measure of health. › Timothy Garvey, MD, and colleagues.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Global healthcare systems are not prepared to care for the 55 million individuals worldwide affected by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), with cases continuing to rise. Conclusions To meet pressing needs for ADRD diagnosis and management, early detection of cognitive issues in primary care settings is needed.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: The cohort consisted of 264 individuals with cancer of various stages. Breast cancer was the most common (51%) diagnosis. Outcomes were assessed at index visit, 2, 4, 6, and 12 months. Most were white (89%), female (84%), with a college or graduate/professional degree (83%).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Two reviewers independently screened records and extracted indicators. Performance domains included: population health (18), diagnosis (16), prevention (10), treatment (9), accessibility (7), patient experience (6), people-centredness (5), promotion (5), continuity (5), coordination (5), comprehensiveness (3), safety (2) , efficiency (1).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To explore participants’ barriers to and facilitators of engagement in a multilevel, cross-sector clinical trial designed to address social needs and improve health-related outcomes for individuals with T2D experiencing food insecurity. their 3-month endpoint visit). Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Preventive Care Primary doctors can offer preventive care to their patients, which typically includes check-ups and screenings to prevent them from contracting illnesses. Disease Diagnosis If a patient visits a hospital with specific symptoms, a primary care doctor diagnoses what they're suffering from.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

These practical benefits are in marked contrast to molecular COVID-19 tests that are used for definitive diagnosis and are generally expected to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus at least 95% of the time when someone is infected. The low viral loads were most likely due to individuals infected with the Omicron variant.

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis of Parvovirus B19 Infection. It was discovered by accident back in 1975, so a little bit before I was born, and it was labeled B19 because of the sample number in a Hepatitis B screening panel. Only about 25% of infected individuals will have this classic rash syndrome. UpToDate , Jun.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Attention to any toxidromes, any abnormal vital signs or mental status, eye findings, and neurologic examination provide the greatest help in narrowing the differential diagnosis. And we do this even when we know from years of growing evidence that the yield of these routinely ordered screening tests is very poor? Ann Emerg Med.

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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. million people in the U.S. – lag behind.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual. How do you think about this from a clinical perspective when you’re seeing individuals in your office? Everybody ages.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. This actually frees up physicians to lean in and really understand their patient, to have the time and the capacity to do the appropriate diagnosis, but also to listen to them and to motivate them in their own care and wellness.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Lung cancer in never-smokers (LCINS) accounts for a rising share of lung-cancer deaths, yet current screening criteria focus almost exclusively on tobacco exposure. A COPD diagnosis 1 to 10 years before cancer carried an aOR of 2.90, while diagnoses 10 to 32 years earlier still showed an aOR of 2.52.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. Internal medicine is a medical specialty focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. What Is Internal Medicine?

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Myriad Genetics

MARCH 19, 2024

Colorectal cancer, once considered a disease of the elderly, is now increasingly affecting younger individuals. Several factors may contribute to the rise of colorectal cancer cases in younger individuals in the U.S. The cancer had come back and was not responding to the same treatment as his initial diagnosis. Today, J.J.

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Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

It’s more than just visiting your doctor when something feels off—it’s about catching potential problems early, staying on top of health screenings, and setting goals that keep you feeling your best. Preventive care refers to medical services that focus on early detection, routine screenings, and health counseling.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. Does a good history matter anymore? Whats the role of assessing function? Great to be back.

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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. Shortly after her breast cancer diagnosis, Kathy became involved in patient advocacy – even before she knew of her own genetic predisposition to cancer.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The tests are very accurate in detecting individuals with a relatively high viral load (symptomatic or not). A positive result, however, is treated as a screen. PCR) test is considered the gold standard for actual diagnosis. On the minus side, a rapid antigen test may miss an infected individual with a low viral load (e.g.,

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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. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

When we have a medication with up front harms and downstream benefits, it’s critical that we consider the time to benefit, or how long it will take an individual to benefit from a test or treatment. Think of the 10 years it takes to benefit from colon or breast cancer screening, which is designed to detect slow growing cancers.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. Pediatr Rev.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We discuss with her how we should work-up and manage “urinary tract infections” (I’ve added air quotes to “UTI” in honor of Tom Finucane’s JAGS article titled “Urinary Tract Infection”—Requiem for a Heavyweight in which he advocated to put air quotes around the term UTI due to the ambiguity of the diagnosis.). Chrissy: Well, right.

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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.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

I had it on my screen. Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. Maybe I could turn to both of you how you got interested in this.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death. Because there is a lot intense discussion, I guess we were talking about this before with the stages of grief, how individualized is there is no right way or wrong way.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 16:55 My guess is probably not something that most geriatricians or internists or family medicine docs caring for older people have on their differential diagnosis. Is a new diagnosis of HIV. If they did, it was before AIDS was a diagnosis. Meredith 17:07 Yes. And I think patients too, don’t always people.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why do we say “over 50” is “older” for homeless persons, why not 65? We would admit them to the hospital.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. Malaz: Correct.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

That’s what I had done with my abortion research, and I had also studied newborn screening policies evolving. And the argument was framed more as a healthcare choice made by individuals in conjunction with their clinicians. Robert: And I’m not going to what the individual provider believes is right or wrong.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. Eric 04:17 How do you think about that? Ken 04:20 I think that was very well said, Louise.

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