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Climate Change and Preventable Injuries

This JAMA Insights investigates the increased rates of climate change’s related preventable injury and the importance of emergency and disaster preparedness as well as injury and violence prevention.  

Bringing Imaging Biomarkers Into Clinical Reality in Psychiatry

Importance  Advancing precision psychiatry, where treatments are based on an individual’s biology rather than solely their clinical presentation, requires attention to several key attributes for any candidate biomarker. These include test-retest reliability, sensitivity to relevant neurophysiology, cost-effectiveness, and scalability. Unfortunately, these…

Diagnosis, Risk Stratification, and Treatment of Pericarditis – A Review

Importance  Pericarditis accounts for up to 5% of emergency department visits for nonischemic chest pain in North America and Western Europe. With appropriate treatment, 70% to 85% of these patients have a benign course. In acute pericarditis, the development of constrictive…

A Conjunctival Papillary Tumor in a 77-Year-Old Woman

A 77-year-old woman presents to the ophthalmology department with a 5-year history of a painless neoplasm in her left eye and no history of tumors. Slitlamp examination shows a papillary tumor on the limbal conjunctiva, with blood vessels extending to…

Balloon Angioplasty vs Medical Management for Intracranial Artery Stenosis – The BASIS Randomized Clinical Trial

Importance  Previous randomized clinical trials did not demonstrate the superiority of endovascular stenting over aggressive medical management for patients with symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (sICAS). However, balloon angioplasty has not been investigated in a randomized clinical trial. Objective  To determine whether balloon…

The Constant Gardener: Cultivating a Resilient Infection Prevention Team

In this episode of Stories of Care, host Megan Srinivas, MD, MPH, is joined by Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, to discuss how leadership can help address the physician burnout crisis and promote wellness. Listen as they talk about team dynamics,…

Scabies, Bedbug, and Body Lice Infestations – A Review

Importance  Scabies, bedbug, and body lice infestations are caused by organisms that live on or in the skin, on clothing, or in the environment and commonly cause pruritus and rash. In 2021, approximately 622 million incident cases of scabies occurred globally….