Asthma is a chronic airway disease associated with substantial morbidity. Most patients with uncontrolled asthma in the United States are managed by primary care providers (PCPs) and not by asthma specialists who are frequently updated on asthma treatment advances, including biologics, which decrease asthma exacerbation rates.
Street medicine programs provide medical care to individuals experiencing homelessness through “street runs,” in which healthcare providers meet unhoused patients on the street and offer them care in that environment. Approximately 50 medical student-run street medicine programs operate in the United States. Data on strategies to improve street medicine services…
Obesity and autoimmune diseases (AID) are each associated with elevated risk of cardiovascular and thromboembolic events due to chronic systemic inflammation. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) have demonstrated cardiovascular and metabolic benefits in patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity, but their effects in patients with obesity and comorbid AID…
Obesity and autoimmune diseases (AIDs) are each associated with elevated risk of cardiovascular and thromboembolic events. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) have demonstrated cardiovascular and metabolic benefits in patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity, but their effects in patients with obesity and comorbid AID remain uncertain. This study evaluated…
A female patient in her mid-20s presented with fevers, rash and polyarthralgia and was ultimately diagnosed with macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), a widely recognised form of secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in the setting of autoinflammatory disease such as adult-onset Still’s disease. Extensive infectious and malignancy workup was negative. Her clinical course…
The Association of Chiefs and Leaders of General Internal Medicine (ACLGIM), a group of division chiefs and other division leaders within the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM), convened the Hess Initiative Work Group on Learner Experience in Primary Care in 2023 to (1) identify the gaps between the current…
