Mindy Valcarcel

1 week ago | healio.com | Emma Bascom |Mindy Valcarcel

Key takeaways: A new installment of ACP’s Best Practice Advice focuses on cannabis use for chronic pain management. An author discussed the most important details for PCPs to know. NEW ORLEANS — Evidence suggests that, for many patients, the harms of cannabis outweigh its potential benefits for chronic noncancer pain, according to new Best Practice Advice from ACP. Adam Obley, MD, FACP, detailed ACP’s advice on cannabis use to manage chronic pain at the college’s annual Internal Medicine Meeting.

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Emma Bascom |Mindy Valcarcel

Key takeaways: Misdiagnosis is a somewhat common phenomenon in medicine, occurring in about 10% of cases. Physicians can teach trainees how to avoid misdiagnosis, and they learn more themselves. NEW ORLEANS — Misdiagnosis is a relatively common issue that physicians must be vigilant against, according to a presenter at ACP Internal Medicine Meeting. Medical diagnostic error “is a significant issue and a significant problem,” Robert L.

3 weeks ago | healio.com | Matthew Shinkle |Mindy Valcarcel

Key takeaways: Black patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer received immunotherapy less often than white patients. Patients who received immunotherapy achieved similar survival regardless of race or ethnicity. Black patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer received immunotherapy less frequently than patients of other racial or ethnic backgrounds, according to results of a retrospective cohort study.

3 weeks ago | healio.com | Andrew Rhoades |Mindy Valcarcel

Key takeaways: Avoidable mortality rose by 32.5 deaths per 100,000 people in the U.S. from 2009 to 2019. A study author told Healio this increase was largely driven by preventable deaths, such as fatal drug overdoses. Deaths that could have been avoided have significantly risen in the United States over the last decade-plus, an analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine revealed. This trend contrasted those experienced by other high-income countries up until the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

3 weeks ago | healio.com | Shannon Dowler |Mindy Valcarcel

Wally Poodle wasn’t really a poodle. He was a scrappy $5 dog I bought with Christmas money in 1976. One day, Wally Poodle and I were roller skating down the middle of a road on a blistering hot summer afternoon, the asphalt seemingly indenting with my metal skate wheels, when Wally flopped to the ground and started shaking all over. I was 10 years old at the time and didn’t know much, but I recognized a seizure for what it was.