Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

Effective blood pressure management requires taking the appropriate medicine as prescribed by a healthcare professional and implementing appropriate lifestyle changes. Read on for an overview of medications used to treat high blood pressure, along with lifestyle changes that can enhance the effectiveness of these medications.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 28, 2025

Speaking to the American Medical Association, 2 physician leaders recently summed up how Permanente Medicine is putting those ideals into practice. At Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States, patients live 6 to 8 years longer than the national average. This translates into significant improvements.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Genomic and personalized medicine implementation efforts have largely centered on specialty care in tertiary health systems. There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum. More than 35,000 patients completed clinical genetic testing following GWA or BHA completion.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Should it? Joe 01:15 Yes.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa.

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 1, 2025

Enhancing Hereditary Cancer Screening at NMC Every day, every patient. Chelsea has spent the better part of a decade developing and implementing a program that ensures everyone who walks through the doors of her department at the Northwestern Medical Center (NMC) in St. The screening program has had enormous success.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Mental health and SUD bias impact the quality of ED care that patients with these conditions receive for physical health concerns, according to research. What the Patients Said According to the study, three key themes emerged: Negative encounters dominated. Isbell, PhD , of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and colleagues.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

The Federation is the national leadership and consulting organization for Permanente Medical Groups and their more than 25,000 physicians. Permanente Medical Groups, Kaiser Foundation Health Plans, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals together comprise Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Bridges joined SCPMG in 2008.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

But these early systems often struggled with complex medical terminology and the natural flow of conversation. 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. The result?

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. Key findings include: 1.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 12, 2025

Promising trends vs reality check: trends with lagging adoption Digital health developments have led to a radical change in care delivery and the very role of patients themselves. Progress in this field promises to reorient care around individual patients’ needs by treating patients as equal-level partners.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 28, 2025

After all, the last thing you need is to worry about the results of your next cholesterol screening when you’re trying to have a pleasant evening. Know the Rules of the Road The first step is to keep up with the current expert advice on what affects cholesterol screening levels.

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AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I also did a screening blood test to look for circulating tumor cells, which I will have an article on this soon! For this reason, medical experts classify DCIS as noninvasive. This is why conventional physicians treat DCIS in patients with surgery, radiation, and sometimes chemotherapy. Thankfully all turned out negative again.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. And very common symptom or coexists commonly with other health conditions and in medications that are used, impacted. Cathy: Thank you.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. Do you prefer a full-service medical center or a walk-in clinic?

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

This plaque buildup is known as atherosclerosis, which can cause cardiac disease, stroke, and other severe conditions – making early cholesterol screening essential. Routine cholesterol screenings help assess your risk for cardiovascular disease so you and your healthcare provider can better understand your overall heart health.

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Edge Family Medicine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Preventive screenings are essential medical tests that help detect diseases before symptoms arise, leading to more effective treatment and reduced healthcare costs. At Edge Family Medicine, we prioritize early detection to give our patients the best chance at a healthy life.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

To address the growing demand for health care services combined with workforce shortages, utilizing health care innovations that improve patient health and restore the joy in medicine for physicians and clinicians is more essential than ever. Connecting patients with needed care quickly creates a win-win for patients and care teams.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 13: Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health Show Notes by Naomi F. Understand how engaged community-based work, centered on trust and accountability, has supported the health of communities served by Oakland, CA’s Asian Health Service.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

Sayantani DasGupta, a physician-educator, prolific children’s book author and faculty at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Together, our guests offer context around how the medical and carceral systems are deeply intertwined and go hand-in-hand.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 25, 2025

By building an integrated, patient-centered colorectal cancer screening program, we doubled screening rates, cut deaths by 50%, and made major strides in closing racial disparities in outcomes. What we found is truly impressive: Screening rates among KPNC patients nearly doubled — from 37.4%

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. It’s all what we signed up for when we signed up on the dotted line to be in healthcare and palliative care.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. Patients may feel like falls are just part of normal aging. What are ways we should screen for falls? People don’t ask about it, they don’t screen about it. Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in their 60s, and decline thereafter. This is about cancer screening in older adults. Summary Transcript Summary. Mara: Thank you so much.

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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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Alex: We are delighted to welcome David Bekelman who’s a palliative care physician and researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Early data on efficacy in patients with anxiety and demoralization are promising. Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). Research is exploding. Welcome back to GeriPal, Stacy.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). That rings true to me.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. Delighted to be here.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There is a special emphasis on the use of public health models that prioritize harm reduction and person-centered care to prevent drug-related fatalities and curb the opioid epidemic along lines of race and class. This discussion is hosted by Ashley Cooper, Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, and new team member Gillette Pierce.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Michigan residents have been buzzing about a primary care clinic that’s setting a new standard for healthcare across the state. Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. What Makes This Medical Clinic Different?

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As the 2025 legislative session swings into full gear, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has set its sights on a cadre of pivotal bills set to shape the healthcare landscape for years to come. Chip Brown, HB 2 proposes a change to existing law regarding the consent process for medical procedures involving minors.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. Something I’ll often point out to patients is, you know, how do you identify your emotions?

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