Primary Care Update

This week, Henry, Kate, Gary and Mark talk about 4 great new studies: is using an AI chat therapist really that bad for youth, theta-burst stimulation for adults with major depressive disorder, finerenone in adults with CKD but not DM, and GLP-1 agonists and vision loss risk.

Join our intrepid primary care experts Kate Rowland, Mark Ebell, Henry Barry and Gary Ferenchick as they tell you about 4 new primary care relevant studies: self-management and manipulation for low back pain, nasal saline for treating adults with URIs, non-gated CT scans and coronary calcium measurement, and statins after age seventy.
Links:
Low back pain: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42223934/
Nasal saline spray for URI: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41136239/
Recipe for spray: https://www.aaaai.org/tools-for-the-public/conditions-library/allergies/saline-sinus-rinse-recipe
Gated vs non-gated CT: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42507772/
Statins after 70: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42670961/
Permanent link to the John Hickner Scholarship Fund: https://give.msu.edu/?sid=17374

This week, primary care experts Drs. Kate Rowland, Gary Ferenchick, Mark Ebell and Henry Barry discuss 4 new studies: The post-Papanicolau era of HPV self collection, electroacupuncture for post-herpetic neuralgia, AI-based app for melanoma detection, and the onset age of silent atherosclerosis.
Links:
Self-collected HPV: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42509175/
Electroacupuncture: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42189557/
AI skin cancer app: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41701029/
Silent plaques: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42670946/

Primary care physicians Kate, Mark, Henry and Gary discuss 4 new studies that could change your practice: treatments for hyperemesis gravidarum, calcium and vitamin D to prevent falls and fractures in older adults, the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor, and oral semaglutide to treat dementia .
The John Hickner Memorial fund at MSU: https://give.msu.edu/?sid=17374
Hyperemesis gravidarum treatments: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41478546/
Supplementing with calcium or vitamin D: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42161415/
Oral PCSK-9 enlicitide:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41879224/
Cochrane review of PCSK-9s: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD011748.pub3/full
Semaglutide for dementia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41865758/

This week, Kate, Gary and Mark discuss 3 new studies: whether we can do anything about modifiable risk factors for dementia, whether COVID-19 vaccines are still useful, and how to interpret abnormal shoulder MRIs.