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Medscape: Dermatologists, Rheumatologists, and Patients Debate the Role of GLP-1 Drugs in Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis
Dermatologists, Rheumatologists, and Patients Debate the Role of GLP-1 Drugs in Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis
Stay on top of the latest developments related to patient education. Browse the AMA’s patient education resources, full of information and tools that physicians can share with their patients, including educational handouts for patients and other patient education materials.
For this installment, three AMA members took time to discuss what doctors wish patients knew about the potentially harmful effects of social media. They are: Nusheen Ameenuddin, MD, MPH, a pediatrician in Rochester, Minnesota, and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media.
The discussion was moderated by William B. Jordan, MD, MPH, who is senior director of equity policy and transformation at the AMA Center for Health Equity. Panelists examined the quality of care older-adult physicians provide, how age-related biases affect older-adult physicians, and how ageism affects patients’ care experience.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines and how to take charge of their health through preventive care.
Getting patients to make healthy lifestyle choices ranks high on every physician’s professional wish list. But realistically accomplishing this goal requires care teams to zero in on what really patients really want.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. Three physicians took time to discuss what doctors wish patients knew about vitamins and nutritional supplements. They are: Pieter Cohen, MD, an internist in Somerville ...
Patients with Meniere’s disease “will have episodes of vertigo, usually lasting half an hour to a couple of hours that can be very intense and incapacitating and unpredictable, but they almost always have a symptom of hearing loss or ringing in their ear either immediately before or during the onset of vertigo,” he said.
Public Health Prevention & Wellness What doctors wish patients knew about iron deficiency One in three women under 50 is iron deficient, affecting about 10 million people in the U.S. Two physicians discuss iron deficiency and how to address it.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines and how to take charge of their health through preventive care. For this installment, two AMA members shared what doctors wish patients knew about sodium consumption. They are:
Most patients are diagnosed at a far less treatable, later stage of the disease. And with about 20% of lung cancer deaths preventable, evidence-based screening recommendations for high-risk patients offer the best hope to catch the disease early and provide the best chance for effective treatment. A medical oncologist shares more.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines and how to take charge of their health through preventive care. In this installment, Jonathan Stoever, MD, a pulmonologist with Confluence Health in Wenatchee, Washington, discusses bronchitis and what patients should know ...
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines.
Practice Management Digital Make sure health AI works for patients and physicians The AMA House of Delegates outlines steps that must be taken to ensure the technology remains an asset, even as health AI keeps evolving.
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. Anjali N. Patel, DO, a cognitive neurologist at the Atlantic Neuroscience Institute at Overlook Medical Center, took time to discuss what to know about Alzheimer’s disease.
Patient perspectives around data privacy The American Medical Association partnered with Savvy Cooperative, a patient-owned source of health care insights, to survey 1,000 patients across the U.S. on their perspectives toward the privacy of their medical information. We found that by understanding the patient perspective on data privacy, industry and government can better act to help patients ...
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Contrast-enhanced dual-energy CT (CE-DECT) helped to diagnose patients with painful and/or inflamed hand joints, researchers said. Initial diagnoses in 136 patients included in the study were changed ...
Medscape: CVD Risk Prediction Tools Are Less Accurate in Patients With Arthritis
Researchers utilized the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink to identify patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Both the Framingham ...
WebMD: What I’ve Learned From My Patients About the Challenges of Psoriatic Arthritis
What I’ve Learned From My Patients About the Challenges of Psoriatic Arthritis
If you have the misfortune to develop rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the UK today, you face tough odds. Only 1 in 5 patients is diagnosed within 3 months of symptoms appearing. This short “golden window ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with arthritis and COPD vs. without COPD had a significantly heightened adjusted risk for all-cause ...
STAT: From research to reality: Advancing science for patients impacted by active psoriatic arthritis
From research to reality: Advancing science for patients impacted by active psoriatic arthritis
The American Journal of Managed Care: Experts, Patients Highlight Barriers to Arthritis Care Amid World Arthritis Day Observance
Experts, Patients Highlight Barriers to Arthritis Care Amid World Arthritis Day Observance
News Medical: POLAR gene profile predicts which patients may and may not benefit from radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery
Patients with invasive breast cancer who had low scores on an investigational gene molecular signature had similar rates of local recurrence whether or not they received adjuvant radiation therapy ...