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Catherine O'Hara's Rare Condition: Here's What to Know
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When ‘I Don’t Know’ is the Correct Diagnosis
‘It is easier to give a diagnosis than to take it away,’ advised a seasoned neurologist as this resident learns how uncertainty permeates the practice of medicine. Medscape
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Prediabetes Can Predict T2D After Heart Attack in Obesity
More than 50% of patients with overweight or obesity, A1c levels of 6.0%-6.4%, and a recent myocardial infarction progress to T2D within 5 years. Medscape News UK
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Can Biology Change How We Define Parkinson’s Disease?
New biomarker tools and genetic staging can spot Parkinson’s decades before symptoms, opening a rare window for prevention. Medscape News Europe
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Recommendations From the Blue Ribbon Panel on Fluoroscopy Safety
There are many challenges associated with the safe use of fluoroscopy. These challenges include but are not limited to highly variable regulatory requirements, scope of practice concerns, inconsistent education and training, and lack of staff empowerment. Challenges are further compounded by the increasing use of fluoroscopy across a wide range of medical specialties. To facilitate consensus on how to address the issues, the ACR convened the multidisciplinary Blue Ribbon Panel on Fluoroscopy Saf…
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Mri-based diagnostic model integrating clinical features for placenta accreta spectrum in non-previa placenta
In recent years, the number of deliveries associated with assisted reproductive technology (ART) has increased worldwide. Among these, frozen embryo transfer (FET) has been reported as a risk factor for placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) [1–3]. Moreover, PAS associated with in vitro fertilization, including FET, tends to occur more frequently in non-previa placenta. Compared with PAS in placenta previa, these non-previa cases show significantly lower rates of antenatal diagnosis [1], suggesting per…
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Clinical-Radiomics hybrid prediction of the Risks of pedicle screw loosening after posterior lumbar fusion
We aimed to construct a risk prediction model for PSL after posterior lumbar fusion using machine learning and radiomic methods.
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'Time Is Brain' Again, Now for Hemostatic Control of Intracerebral Bleeds
(MedPage Today) — NEW ORLEANS — There is still hope that recombinant factor VIIa (rFVIIa) may be a good hemostatic treatment for acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) under the right circumstances — just not the way it was done in the FASTEST…