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Friday, 30 October 2026
Beyond the Obvious Provoking Factor: May-Thurner Syndrome Presenting With Extensive Venous Thromboembolism in an 18-Year-Old Male
In a young man with extensive unprovoked left-sided DVT, consider iliac vein compression and image the pelvis rather than stopping at standard thrombophilia workup.
General Medicine · Cureus · 6d
Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter Species Isolated From Intensive Care Units in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Local ICU antibiograms for MDR Acinetobacter should steer empiric choice in your unit; check whether your hospital's resistance pattern matches before defaulting to carbapenems.
General Medicine · Cureus · 6d
Doctor's vacations at government medical colleges under Centre’s scanner
If you teach at a government medical college, leave and vacation rules for CHS faculty may change, affecting how you plan academic time and clinical cover.
General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 6d
ICMR funds study to identify genetic links, potential therapies for autoimmune diseases
Multiplex-family genomic profiling may eventually identify shared immunopathogenic targets, but no diagnostic or therapeutic is available to you yet.
General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 6d
Climate change threatens malaria elimination in the Asia Pacific.
Extreme weather, not just warming, is driving malaria resurgence — Pakistan's post-flood spike shows you should expect outbreak response, not steady seasonal trends.
General Medicine · Nature Medicine · 6d
Optimizing Front-Door Sarcopenia Screening on the Acute Medical Unit: A Practical Framework for Frailty Management
No outcome data are reported. The framework combines the validated SARC-F questionnaire with handgrip strength and the chair stand test, to be applied during acute medical assessment.
General Medicine · Cureus · 7d
Thursday, 29 October 2026
Role of Family Medicine in Acute Diabetic Emergencies and Related Healthcare Utilization: A Systematic Review
Most studies reported fewer acute glycemic events and reductions in diabetes-related or avoidable hospitalisation and emergency care use, but findings were inconsistent; no study reported diabetic ketoacidosis or hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state as individual endpoints
General Medicine · Cureus · 7d
Mobility-Related Disability, Body Mass Index, and Cardiometabolic Disease Among Adults in Puducherry, India: A Cross-Sectional Mediation Analysis
In Puducherry adults, BMI partly mediates the link between mobility disability and hypertension/diabetes — so weight management in disabled patients is cardiometabolic prevention, not just rehab.
General Medicine · Cureus · 7d
The Confidence Trap: What a New Survey Reveals About AI and Health Decisions
Patients are already using general-purpose chatbots to decide whether to see you at all, so ask what they were told before dismissing their self-triage.
General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 7d
NYU Langone brings OpenEvidence’s clinical AI into the EHR systemwide
An AI answer engine embedded in the EHR at a major academic centre signals where point-of-care evidence retrieval is heading; expect similar tools in your hospital's workflow.
General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 7d
Kennedy's HHS relaxes enforcement on 6 popular wellness peptides
Patients may now ask you about compounded peptides like BPC-157 with no approved safety data; know the regulatory shift before advising them.
General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 7d
'Ebola is like Covid pandemic': African CDC chief says no country in the world is safe now
Ebola's early symptoms mimic common febrile illness, so take a full travel and contact history in any fever case — importation risk is not zero anywhere.
General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 7d
Lactate Kinetics and Procalcitonin Clearance as Predictors of 28-Day Mortality in Patients With Sepsis Admitted to a Medical Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Observational Study
21% died by day 28. Admission lactate was 8.6 mmol/L (IQR 6.4-12.4) in nonsurvivors versus 3.7 mmol/L (IQR 2.6-4.4) in survivors; PCT clearance AUC 1.000 (95% CI 0.964-1.000) at cutoff ≤38.65%.
General Medicine · Cureus · 7d
Acute Onset Seropositive Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease in the Absence of Articular Symptoms: An Atypical Presentation
Seropositive ILD can present acutely with dyspnea and chest pain mimicking PE before any joint symptoms, so consider RA serology in unexplained acute interstitial patterns.
General Medicine · Cureus · 7d
HUL backs FSSAI labelling norms for food products high in fat, salt and sugar
Front-of-pack warning labels would let you point patients with diabetes, hypertension or obesity to specific packaged foods to avoid, rather than generic diet advice.
General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 7d
A clinical multimodal vision language foundation model with fine-grain explainability.
A multimodal model that shows its reasoning could make AI imaging and text tools auditable enough to trust at the point of care.
General Medicine · Nature Medicine · 7d
Gram-negative resistance spreads via mobile genetic elements and reduced drug entry
No primary data or effect estimates are reported. Resistance arises through reduced drug entry, efflux, target modification and enzymatic inactivation, most notably β-lactamase production, with mobile genetic elements accelerating dissemination of resistance genes.
General Medicine · NEJM · 7d
Wednesday, 28 October 2026
Microbiological Profile and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of Non-fermenting Gram-Negative Bacilli Isolated From Clinical Specimens in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Prospective Study
P. aeruginosa susceptibility peaked at amikacin 50.00%, cefepime 46.49%, meropenem 45.61%. A. baumannii: minocycline 35.90%, imipenem and meropenem 10.26% each. B. cepacia complex meropenem 75.00%; S. maltophilia minocycline 86.67%.
General Medicine · Cureus · 8d
Meropenem-Induced Thrombocytosis: A Case Report
If platelets spike on day 7 of meropenem while the patient is clinically improving, consider a drug effect rather than worsening infection before changing antibiotics.
General Medicine · Cureus · 8d
STAT+: Why every health care AI company must face Epic
Epic's grip on hospital records shapes which AI tools reach your ward, so vendor lock-in may limit the clinical software you are offered.
General Medicine · STAT News — Health Tech · 8d
Etranacogene Dezaparvovec: 15-Month Follow-Up of the First Patient Infused in Spain
Real-world 15-month data on AAV gene therapy for haemophilia B, including late liver events, informs monitoring after a one-time infusion that may replace prophylaxis.
General Medicine · Cureus · 8d
New national air pollution standards wait as review drags on for 5 yrs
India's 2009 PM2.5 limits are far looser than WHO's; five more years of delay means your patients keep breathing air judged unsafe by current evidence.
General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 8d
Advertising Standards Council flags misleading claims in nutraceutical ads
Patients bring these ads to your OPD expecting time-bound cures; knowing the ASCI has flagged them lets you counter claims about supplements rather than argue from scratch.
General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 8d
STAT+: As Epic’s dominance grows, its iron grip is choking innovation in health technology
If your hospital runs Epic, third-party tools that read your patient data may be blocked at the vendor's discretion, limiting what you can deploy at the bedside.
General Medicine · STAT News — Health Tech · 8d
Clinician-Reported Consequences and Patient Outcomes in Disputed Emergency Department Admission Referrals: A Systematic Review
Only one study reported outcomes for patients with a disputed referral: of 109 rejected admission requests, 97 (89.0%) were eventually admitted and 66 (60.6%) under the first team contacted; ED length of stay rose with teams involved.
General Medicine · Cureus · 8d
Phenotypic Detection of Metallo-β-Lactamase Production and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns Among Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella spp. Isolated From Intensive Care Units: A Prospective Observational Study
If your ICU's Klebsiella are MBL-producers, carbapenems are already failing — local susceptibility data should steer empiric choice before culture results return.
General Medicine · Cureus · 8d
Jacquet Papuloerosive Dermatitis in an Adult: An Uncommon Presentation of a Predominantly Pediatric Condition
In an incontinent elderly patient, this severe irritant dermatitis can mimic infection or malignancy; recognising it avoids unnecessary antibiotics and biopsies.
General Medicine · Cureus · 8d
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
A Comparative Review of Performance and Concurrent Cardiac Rhythm Assessment Across Home Sleep Apnea Testing Devices
If you order HSAT, device choice matters: FDA-cleared Type III units differ in accuracy and rhythm-detection capability, so know your local device's limits before trusting a negative study.
General Medicine · Cureus · 9d
Elbow Pain in an Adult: Keeping Nursemaid’s Elbow in the Differential Diagnosis
Radial head subluxation is not paediatric-only; in an adult with elbow pain and no fracture, consider it and attempt reduction before ordering imaging.
General Medicine · Cureus · 9d
Lemierre Syndrome Without Pharyngitis: An Atypical Case Posing a Diagnostic Challenge
Lemierre can present with confusion and hyponatremia and no sore throat, so keep anaerobic coverage in mind when blood cultures grow oral flora.
General Medicine · Cureus · 9d
Role of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) Score in Predicting Outcomes in Paraquat Poisoning
53 of 80 (66.2%) died. APACHE II did not differ significantly between survivors and non-survivors (median 15 vs 16, p = 0.205) and discriminated poorly (AUC 0.587, 95% CI 0.461-0.712).
General Medicine · Cureus · 9d
Physician Perspectives Surrounding Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
hEDS patients often arrive already distrustful after years of dismissal; understanding how clinicians frame the diagnosis may help you avoid repeating that rupture in clinic.
General Medicine · Cureus · 9d
SC questions Centre over medicine price markups, says hospitals cannot survive through 'dacoity'
A ruling on MRP-versus-retail markups could change what your patients pay out of pocket for the same prescriptions you write daily.
General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 9d
Ayushman Bharat Data going to be gamechanger for India and Global South: Dr M Srinivas
ABDM records may soon feed AI tools you use at the point of care; know the data governance and consent rules before your patients' records are used.
General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 9d
Cent Raises $15 Mn To Scale AI-Led Preventive Healthcare Platform
A well-funded AI triage and prevention platform may soon route patients to you with pre-screened risk profiles, so expect changing referral patterns and more upstream chronic disease detection.
General Medicine · Inc42 · 9d
Using Generative AI to Support Patient Information Leaflet Development: A Descriptive Implementation Study
Free-tier ChatGPT can draft lymphoedema patient leaflets that pass institutional approval, but you still own the clinical accuracy check before anything reaches patients.
General Medicine · Cureus · 9d
Observational Assessment of a Non-steroidal Tranexamic Acid and sh-Oligopeptide-1 Serum for Topical Steroid-Damaged Face Using the Dermoscopy-Assisted Topical Steroid Score
A dermoscopy-based score lets you track recovery in patients with steroid-damaged facial skin, and this small series suggests a non-steroidal serum may help.
General Medicine · Cureus · 9d
Impact of Unrestricted Artificial Intelligence Scribe Deployment in a Single Health System on Clinician Workload and Productivity : A Quality Improvement Study.
Ambient AI scribes cut documentation time, but the benefit tracked with how much clinicians actually used them — adoption, not licensing, is what buys you time back.
General Medicine · Annals · 9d
STAT+: HHS relaxes security, transparency rules for health record software used by hospitals
Looser vendor security and transparency standards mean the EHR you rely on for orders and records may face weaker scrutiny — worth raising with your IT and compliance leads.
General Medicine · STAT News — Health Tech · 10d