Hitchcock Family Medicine

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Childhood is a time of growth, exploration, and, unfortunately, illness. As children’s immune systems develop, they are more susceptible to a range of common illnesses. Additionally, if your child has blood in their stool or vomit, immediate medical attention is necessary to address potential underlying issues.

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Edge Family Medicine

JUNE 23, 2025

These summer hydration tips can help you stay energized, protect your heart, and avoid heat-related illness during outdoor activity or everyday errands. Older adults are at higher risk due to reduced thirst signals, medications, and chronic conditions. At 3–4% loss, your risk of heat exhaustion or heat stroke rises sharply.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 19, 2025

In medical practice, vital signs have traditionally focused on four primary measurements , namely body temperature, pulse rate, breathing rate and blood pressure. Recently, a new trend has emerged where artificial intelligence (AI)-based apps are detecting vital signs as well as possible illness indicators from patients’ faces alone.

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A Country Doctor Writes

APRIL 17, 2025

When taking a medical history, it is often very difficult to pin down the duration of a patient’s symptoms or the speed of change. Incongruity can be an issue of what’s around in the home, how a person talks or moves when they are distracted from describing how ill they feel, and many more things.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Smith, a general internist and professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University, explains why our medical system consistently prioritizes physical over emotional health and presents some ambitious proposals for how to rectify this harmful disparity. In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?

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Doctor Rachel

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

And even if you don’t have young ones traipsing about the house, co-workers, friends and family can all share illnesses with you, often unknowingly. My favorite way to use this when ill, is to boil fresh, sliced ginger in water, letting it cool to warm, and add raw local honey (or coconut nectar).

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AMMD

MARCH 10, 2025

Make Sure You’re On the Right Type and Dose of Supplemental Thyroid Hormone Once you know your thyroid levels, you and your doctor can ensure you're on the right type and dose of thyroid medication. Yet, the most commonly prescribed thyroid medication—such as Synthroid® or Levoxyl®—only contains T4, the storage form of the hormone.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field. How far can you see and hear? What about the smell of the flowers?

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Family Physicians of Cedar Rapids

JUNE 20, 2025

🧠 Watch for Signs of Heat Illness Be alert for symptoms like: • Dizziness or lightheadedness • Headache • Muscle cramps • Nausea • Rapid heartbeat If you or someone around you shows signs of heat exhaustion or heat stroke, move to a cooler place, hydrate, and seek medical attention if symptoms worsen.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

When dealing with chest congestion, it’s important to understand potential warning signs, as well as what type of medical care to seek for them. F or higher, chest pain, or blood in your saliva, you should consider seeking medical attention for chest congestion. You should never ignore chest pain or chest soreness with congestion.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 2, 2023

looking into a suicide prevention tool have published a paper titled "Predicting suicide risk in 137,112 people with severe mental illness in Finland: external validation of the Oxford Mental Illness and Suicide tool (OxMIS)" in the journal Translational Psychiatry. Researchers at the University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, U.K.,

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Doctor Rachel

JULY 21, 2019

I don't know about you, but I have had a VERY busy spring—at work and at home—with multiple family members in need of support and medical care. Reduced cardiovascular, respiratory disease and long-term illness 17. Reduced occurrence of illness 18. It was just what I needed. Reduced mortality rates from circulatory disease 13.

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

When thinking about emergency room settings, even, one can easily correlate the words of Webster to what one would necessitate to be a situation requiring emergency medical treatment. When a critical illness or injury occurs, then, we should all be thankful that we live within a society where emergent, life-saving medical care is available.

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Rao Doctor

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In this article today, I am going to answer a few frequently asked questions about this illness and also learn how to get rid of it. A fever, medically known as pyrexia, is characterized by a temporary elevation in the body’s temperature. Introduction: What is fever? What does fever do? F to 102.2°F F (38°C to 39°C). F to 104.0°F

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Recent research showed that ICU statin therapy was associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis. Statin use is associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis, according to a study published online in Frontiers in Immunology.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Buprenorphine is an effective medication for OUD but uptake is slow due in part to lack of provider knowledge, confidence, and negative attitudes/stigma toward patients with OUD. The population of focus included medical students, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Overall results were similar between different learner types.

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Adventures of a Sick Doctor

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The answer comes from a proper understanding of the principles of screening, those seven criteria made famous by Wilson and Jungner that every medical student learns (and forgets immediately, if they are anything like me). Why would someone who feels perfectly well subject themselves to a medical test? You didn’t do anything wrong.

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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. They can do this through physical exams and by sending the patient to the laboratory for blood tests and toxicology reports looking for diseases or illnesses.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 5, 2025

While some of these microbes cause illness and disease (such as bacteria and viruses), others are friendlier to us and help keep us in good health. The microbial community living within our large intestine is a highly dense and complex ecosystem.

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AMMD

APRIL 9, 2025

Medication use can also have a detrimental impact on your gut. If you’ve taken antibiotics or acid-reducing medications for a long time, you likely have a microbiome imbalance. Stress , medication, and candida can slow gut motility. Do you have gas, bloating, or stomach pain that doesn’t seem to be going away on its own?

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Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 27, 2025

The pain can continue beyond a particular injury or illness and is enough to impact daily activities. If the chronic pain stems from an existing medical condition, the doctor may refer the patient to a pain specialist. This medical professional can provide further tips or strategies for immediate and long-term pain management.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Whether it be for chronic pain, for chronic illness, for companionship, simply to have a place to hang out for a few hours, or to get some food, we are often inundated with these patients at the most inopportune times. He was frail and had unfortunately progressed to relying on a walker, due to a multitude of medical problems, for ambulation.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Robin Wolaner, 71, a retired publisher in Sausalito, California, has been known to badger friends who delay getting recommended shots, sending them relevant medical studies. “Season in and season out,” Schaffner said, “it produces outbreaks of serious respiratory illness that rivals influenza.”

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Doctor On Demand

JANUARY 22, 2025

Let’s explore the distinctive signs of RSV in children , highlight the similarities with other respiratory illnesses, and emphasize the importance of seeking professional medical advice. Coughing and Sneezing: Respiratory symptoms such as coughing and sneezing are common in all these illnesses.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 9, 2022

For years, American cities and towns have struggled with how to address those living on their streets who suffer from mental illness but refuse treatment.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The World Health Organization said Friday it was deploying experts to investigate a mystery flu-like illness that has killed dozens of people in southwest Congo in recent weeks.

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Doctor On Demand

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Let’s explore the distinctive signs of RSV in adults, highlight the similarities with other respiratory illnesses, and emphasize the importance of seeking professional medical advice. Coughing and Sneezing: Respiratory symptoms such as coughing and sneezing are common in all these illnesses.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 16, 2023

More than 10 million people in the United States are living with bipolar disorder, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

The study investigated the association between BAR and 28-day mortality risk in 4,625 adult patients from the publicly available Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV database, which included health records for patients in the ICU at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center between 2008 and 2022.

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Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

It’s clear traditional healthcare staffing solutions, such as in-house hiring, are no longer sufficient—read on for a deep dive on the limitations of permanent providers and why you should consider partnering with a locum tenens medical staffing network at your facility. What are the limitations of permanent healthcare staffing solutions?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 12, 2022

It allows clinicians to distill the case into its most relevant features, which facilitates efficient diagnostic schema and illness script selection. By extracting key case details and translating them into generalizable terms, you can more effectively link the case in front of you to your own bank of diagnostic schemas and illness scripts.

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Pamela Wible MD

APRIL 27, 2025

In fact, your medical career can cause both physical and mental illness (especially for empaths). Click here to download Live Your Dream Physician Retreats If you’re a physician, chances are you’ve struggled to live your dream in medicine—most doctors are disillusioned.

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GomerBlog

JANUARY 23, 2021

Las Vegas, NV – With COVID still raging across the country, medical professionals of all walks have been looking for ways to burn off some steam. Emergency Medicine: Ill do anything you want to do, it just takes me 4 hours and a couple tests to figure out what it is. Pediatrics: If youre good, Ill give you a sticker after!

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

He appeared relaxed on his medical cot, lying back at 45 degrees, facing the room's door, his legs comfortably extended in front of him and his gown tied correctly behind him. In the meantime, a good friend brought to my attention the many layers of meaning to the below post. I hope you, too, find new meaning in old words. Another cough.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Many of us are taught in medical school and residency the importance of patient communication on improving patient satisfaction scores, quality metrics, and professional fulfillment. There is robust data regarding the importance of patient connection and engagement in the hospital and clinic setting.

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The Direct Doctors Difference

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Like other chronic illnesses, there are medications available to help with substance use disorder. Like other chronic illnesses, there are medications available to help with substance use disorder. There are also medications that can help people with alcohol use disorder.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 20, 2020

Marc Heincelman Marc Heincelman is an assistant professor within the Department of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he also serves as director of the Medicine Clerkship and Acting Internship. Roughly 10-12% of cases may present without rash (i.e.,

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