
Kathleen Doheny
Health and Lifestyle Journalist at Freelance
Freelance health/lifestyle journalist, mom, mom-in-law, Mimi. WebMD, Medscape, MedCentral, Senior Planet, etc. Ideas: [email protected].
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2 weeks ago |
medscape.com | Kathleen Doheny
Complaints of chest pain brought the woman into her primary care physician’s (PCP) office. Her doctor, Asha Shajahan, MD, a family practice physician at Corewell Health in Novi, Michigan, examined her thoroughly, determined that the patient had atherosclerosis of the coronary artery, and referred her to a cardiologist she had worked with before.
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2 weeks ago |
seniorplanet.org | Kathleen Doheny
June is Cataract Awareness Month, but many eyecare experts say the top three vision issues for older adults are cataracts, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration. The good news? Dramatic advances in surgical techniques and materials plus greater understanding of vision health mean there’s much that can be done to restore and preserve vision for all three health issues.
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2 weeks ago |
medscape.com | Kathleen Doheny
Everyone agrees primary care physicians (PCPs) need to work together with cardiologists when caring for patients with heart disease, diabetes, and sometimes both conditions. Medscape Medical News asked for examples of PCP-to-cardiologist referrals that were successful — or not. Here are three success stories and one that could have turned out better. Diabetes, Hypertension, New-Onset Raynaud’s…at 97The patient arriving for a primary care visit had diabetes and a history of hypertension.
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2 weeks ago |
medscape.com | Kathleen Doheny
SAN DIEGO — A novel generative artificial intelligence (AI) framework known as trajectory flow matching (TFM) can predict the need for red blood cell transfusion and mortality risk in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with acute gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, researchers reported at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2025. Acute GI bleeding is the most common cause of digestive disease–related hospitalization, with an estimated 500,000 hospital admissions annually.
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3 weeks ago |
mdedge.com | Kathleen Doheny
FROM DDW 2025SAN DIEGO — With the recently updated recommendations by the US Preventive Services Task Force lowering the age for colorectal cancer screening to 45 instead of 50, an additional 19 million patients now require screening, Asma Khapra, MD, AGAF, a gastroenterologist at Gastro Health in Fairfax, Virginia, told attendees at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2025.
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On an assignment about microdosing of GLP-1s and need to interview someone who has done this for weight loss. [email protected] Why, results, pros, cons.

Looking for a physician in recovery from compulsive gambling to talk about how physicians in family practice should be screening patients for this potential addiction; what questions to ask, what signs to look for. [email protected] Prefer using real name.

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