Primary Care Update

Primary Care Update

Four healthily skeptical primary care physicians discuss the latest in primary care medicine. Join Essential Evidence Editor Mark Ebell MD, Rush University's Kate Rowland MD, MSU Professor of Medicine Gary Ferenchick MD, and POEMs co-founder Henry Barry MD, MS for this fast-paced weekly update on evidence-based primary care.

Episodes

April 22, 2025 32 mins

This week join our intrepid primary care physicians Kate, Gary, Henry and Mark as they discuss 4 new studies: an experimental treatment for chronic migraines, safety of albuterol in wheezy kids under 2, oral gepotidacin for uncomplicated UTI, and vitamin K2 and Leg Cramps.

Here are the links:

Lukas' Fund supporting the Piedmont Athens and Grady Atlanta NICUs: https://www.lukasfund.org

Essential Evidence Plus: http://www.essentia...

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This week Kate, Gary, Mark and Henry discuss discontinuation of benzodiazepines and treatment of insomnia, the value of baseline cognitive testing of college athletes, vonoprazan vs PPI for preventing and treating ulcers, and whether herpes zoster vaccine reduces dementia risk.

Show links:

Essential Evidence Plus: www.essentialevidenceplus.com

Tapering benzos: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39374004/

Baseline neuro eval...

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This week Gary, Mark, Kate and Henry discuss: adverse effects from inhaled steroids in asthma, Italian dementia guideline, fezolinetant for treatment of vasomotor symptoms, and updated USPSTF recommendations for osteoporosis screening.

Show notes and links:

Asthma and risk of CV events: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39088770/

GINA 2024 guidelines: https://ginasthma.org/2024-report/

Italian dementia guidelines: https://www...

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Join Kate, Gary, Mark and Henry as they discuss 4 new POEMs relevant to primary care: bright light therapy for non-seasonal depression, fever control in children, abelacimab for atrial fibrillation, antibiotics vs surgery in children with nonperforated appendicitis. Get all of the POEMs (a new one every day) by going to Essential Evidence Plus and subscribing.

Links from today's podcast:

Bright lights for non-seasonal depression:...

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This week, Gary, Kate, Henry and Mark discuss 4 new studies relevant to primary care practice: the effectiveness of RSV monoclonals in infants, acupuncture for sciatica associated with disk herniation, zoledronate every 5 years for low risk women, and the effect of arm position on blood pressure readings. Plus a quiz! Please see below for show notes and links:

Learn more about Essential Evidence Plus: www.essentialevidenceplus.co...

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Join Kate, Mark, Gary and Henry as they discuss 4 new POEMs on treatment of sexual dysfunction, the benefits and harms of GLP-1 agonists, active surveillance vs usual care for ductal carcinoma in situ, and medications to prevent episodic migraine headache.

Henry mentioned AAFP's uncensored resources:

www.aafp.org/family-physician/patient-care/clinical-recommendations.html 

www.aafp.org/family-physician/patient-care/care-resources....

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This week, join Kate, Mark, Gary and Henry as they discuss 4 new studies: prenatal cannabis exposure, fluid resuscitation during acute sickle crises, edoxaban or edoxaban + ASA for afib with CAD, and the impact of aerobic exercise on weight loss in adults


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Join Henry, Kate, Mark and Gary as they discuss 4 new POEMs: an RCT of mindfulness for chronic pain, use of methotrexate (huh?) for pain relief in adults with knee DJD, a new way to eradicate H., and oral resveratrol for adults with painful DJD of the knee  (you know, the stuff from red wine). And a quiz: what actually are the benefits of lower BP targets?


Links

Mindfulness for chronic pain:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/391588...

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This week join our intrepid team of skeptical primary care doctors as Kate, Mark, Henry and Gary discuss a web- and text-based intervention to prevent obesity in babies, the best timing of DOAC initiation after ischemic stroke in adults with atrial fibrillation, using semaglutide for knee osteoarthritis, and the differential diagnosis of thunderclap headaches. Plus the BEST quiz ever.

Links:

Preventing obesity in babies: https://pu...

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This month Kate, Mark, Gary and Henry discuss yoga for treating urinary incontinence in older women, benefits and harms of muscle relaxants for adults with chronic pain, maternal prenatal cannabis use and developmental delays, and bariatric surgery vs. glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists in obese adults with T2DM.

Links:

Yoga for incontinence: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39186785/

Muscle relaxants for painful conditions:...

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This week Mark, Kate, Gary and Henry talk about the comparative effectiveness of migraine medications, strategies for adults with plantar fascia pain, whether to continue beta-blocker use after acute MI, and the outcomes of 5-alpha reductase inhibitor use prior to prostate cancer diagnosis.

Links

Migraine: https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj-2024-080107

Plantar fasciitis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38904119/  and https://pubme...

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This week listen in as Kate, Mark, Gary and Henry discuss antiviral treatment for infant RSV, colonoscopy competence by specialty, oral minoxidil for hair loss in men, and artificial intelligence performance on interpreting electrocardiograms .

RSV medication:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2313551#ap2  and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39321361/ 

Colonoscopy by specialty

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38588561/ 


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Join Kate, Gary, Henry and Mark as they discuss a new therapy for dry eye syndrome, antibiotics for suspected UTI in adults with delirium, a new ACG guideline for treating H pylori, and the prevalence of knee pathology in asymptomatic adults. See below for links to the articles and other stuff:

Dry eye treatment

BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj-2024-080474

Patient instructions: https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/suppl/2024/09...

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Join Gary, Kate, Mark and Henry as they discuss text messages for adolescent vaping cessation, stopping BP meds in nursing home residents with dementia, the benefits of SGLT-2 inhibitors, and mobile phone app–based artificial intelligence for diagnosing melanoma.

Click here for transcript, notes and links for this episode.


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It's biscuit week, oops, I mean flu week here on the Great Primary Care Update. Join our bakers, I mean POETs, as they discuss preventing influenza, treating severe influenza, psychedelics for depression, and GLP-1 agonists to treat sleep apnea of all things.

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This week, Gary, Henry, Kate and Mark discuss CV events in children with hypertension, intra-articular steroid injections in adults with hip DJD, the best drug classes for treating adults with T2DM, and AI supported development of practice guideline questions. And a quiz, and two sports stories from Henry!


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This week join Kate, Mark, Henry and Gary for a discussion of the cardiovascular benefits of salt substitutes, using virtual reality for cancer-related pain, whether multivitamins reduce mortality, and if and when to recommend vitamin D supplements.


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This week, Kate, Mark, Gary and Henry tackle 4 new studies: the updated PREVENT cardiovascular disease risk calculators from the AHA, long-term consequences of UTIs in children, antibiotics for sinusitis in kids, and biomarkers to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease


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This week, join Kate, Gary, Mark and Henry as they discuss screening asymptomatic people for COPD and asthma, the rate of new onset seizures after COVID vaccination, choosing the best oral antibiotic for mild to moderate CAP, and a trail of melatonin for delirium in older, hospitalized adults


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This week, Kate, Mark, Henry and Gary tackle the association between prostate medications and lower dementia risk, the natural history of umbilical hernias in children, differential mortality for flu, RSV and COVID, and what to do about device-detected atrial fibrillation.


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