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Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention: Randomized controlled trial testing the effect of 2 distinct interventions on A1c for adults (≥18 years) who screen positive for food insecurity, have a T2D diagnosis, and an A1c level > 7.5%: a 6-week culinary and nutrition education class and community referrals to address unmet social needs.

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Barriers to and Facilitators of Participant Engagement in a Multi-level Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes and Food Insecurity [Clinical trial]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Adults (≥18 years) who receive care at an affiliated clinic, screen positive for food insecurity, have a T2D diagnosis, and an A1c level > 7.5%. Transportation and scheduling challenges also hindered engagement. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

The average age of a breast cancer diagnosis has statistically been around 65. I also did a screening blood test to look for circulating tumor cells, which I will have an article on this soon! If you’ve recently received a DCIS diagnosis or know someone who has, what are your options? Thankfully all turned out negative again.

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Middle to Older Age Latinas Experiences Across the Cervical Cancer Continuum: Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment and Impact [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Cervical cancer screening rates among middle to older age Latinas (>45yrs) - roughly 6.5 About 90% were either currently or formerly undocumented, 2/3 spoke Spanish, 2/3 made <$50,000 annually, and 1/3 reported inadequate transportation. million people in the U.S. – lag behind. Only a few received stage 1 diagnoses.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year.

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

GeriPal

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.” So we’re trying to help replace the transportation option. “How are things going?”

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

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.