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New-Onset Floaters Strongly Predict Retinal Detachment in Primary Care
7+ hour, 45+ min ago (238+ words) New-Onset Floaters Strongly Predict Retinal Detachment in Primary Care The research team reviewed EHRs from seven family practices from 2012 to 2021, identifying 1,181 adults aged 18 and older with new'onset floaters or flashes. They categorized patients into three groups: floaters, flashes, or both,…...
A Clinical Practice Algorithm to Manage ILD Exacerbations
5+ hour, 59+ min ago (96+ words) A Clinical Practice Algorithm to Address Acute Exacerbations of ILD, Part 2: Management Researchers summarized current guidelines for prophylactic cranial irradiation in patients with small cell lung cancer. To support clinical decision making, an expert walked through current evidence on postoperative…...
Framework Redefines Fitness for CLL Treatment
7+ hour, 50+ min ago (105+ words) A Framework to Redefine Fitness in Modern CLL Management As chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) treatment continues to evolve, an article in Cancers'shares considerations'for a new, more holistic'model to assess patients" fitness for treatment." Researchers summarized current guidelines for prophylactic cranial irradiation…...
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7+ hour, 50+ min ago (15+ words) Tool Shows High Accuracy in Identifying Urinary Tract Infections in Young Children With Fever'Physician's Weekly...
How Technology, Access, Bias, and Culture Influence Care: AI in Diagnosis & Unchecked Dependence
9+ hour, 54+ min ago (142+ words) How Technology, Access, Bias, and Culture Influence Care: AI in Diagnosis & Unchecked Dependence Shannon Kooker, MSN, RN Clinicians should critically assess AI by questioning its training data, transparency, and alignment with clinical knowledge, watching for bias or disproportionate outcomes across…...
Primary Breast Tumor Resection Increases Survival in Single-Site dnMBC
21+ hour, 14+ min ago (269+ words) Primary Breast Tumor Resection Tied to Improved Single-Site dnMBC Survival Because palliation is often the focus of dnMBC management, survival benefits associated with surgical or locally ablative therapy have remained unclear, especially for patients with oligometastatic disease, the authors explained....
How to Deal With Another Doctor’s Error
15+ hour, 31+ min ago (97+ words) Dealing With Another Doctor's Error: How, When, & Who to Inform'Physician's Weekly Dealing With Another Doctor's Error: How, When, & Who to Inform Dr. MedLaw returns to discuss the important steps physicians should take when they find that another doctor charged with…...
Dupilumab Tied to Rise in Cutaneous Autoimmune Disease Diagnoses for Children With Atopy
23+ hour, 57+ min ago (98+ words) Dupilumab Tied to Increased Cutaneous Autoimmune Disease Diagnoses in Pediatric Atopy "While the weighted incidence rates of autoimmune disease diagnoses were low overall for both dupilumab-treated and untreated children with atopy, we detected an approximately 1.6-fold increased risk of cutaneous…...
Vancomycin 4-Week Regimen May Prevent Early C. Diff Infection Recurrence
20+ hour, 46+ min ago (480+ words) Vancomycin 4-Week Regimen May Prevent Early C. Diff Infection Recurrence For patients with a first episode or first recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), a 4-week vancomycin pulse and taper regimen showed a 73.8% probability of being superior to a standard 14-day pulse…...
Q&A: New Data to Guide Enthesitis Treatment in Psoriatic Arthritis
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (794+ words) Q&A: New Data to Guide Enthesitis Treatment in Psoriatic Arthritis Ayad H. Alkhatib, MD; Devon Charlton, MD, MPH Upadacitinib and certolizumab demonstrated greater efficacy in reducing signs of enthesitis in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) compared with other molecular-targeted drugs, according to a…...