The Shift in Dementia Care from Control to Connection
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Today we’re continuing our Medicine in Transition theme with a topic that is deeply personal, professionally important, and long overdue. This episode is titled “The Shift of Dementia Care: From Control to Connection.” But we’re not doing this one alone. We’re joined by a special guest, Jennifer Stoner.Jennie is a retired professor from Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois, where she taught in recreation administration and therapeutic recreation, helping train future professionals to design meaningful, person‑centered programs for older adults and...
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Cancer Care in Transition
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In this week’s episode, “Cancer Care in Transition: Precision Medicine, Immunotherapy, and Patient Choice,” we look at how cancer treatment is changing at the exact moment when patients are trying to move from crisis mode into something like a new normal. Precision medicine now uses a person’s genes, tumor markers, and even lifestyle to match them with targeted drugs or immunotherapies instead of one‑size‑fits‑all chemo, while immuno‑oncology has created a growing group of survivors living with long‑term effects and unique follow‑up needs. At the same time, shared...
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The Dark Side of Patient Advocacy on Social Media
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The dark side of advocacy is that the same social media platforms that help health advocates reach millions can also expose them to relentless trolls, coordinated pile‑ons, and even threats to their safety and careers. Studies of physicians and public‑health advocates show that a large share—sometimes more than half—have been personally attacked online for speaking about vaccines, gun violence, or other health issues, facing abuse that targets not just their ideas but also their gender, race, disability, or identity. What starts as “just comments” can quickly escalate into doxxing,...
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Various Types of Dementia
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Various Types of Dementia This week on PodcastDX, we’re stepping into the complex world of dementia—not as a single diagnosis, but as a family of conditions that affect memory, thinking, behavior, and independence in different ways. We’ll introduce the most common types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and mixed dementia, where more than one process—often Alzheimer’s plus vascular changes—are happening in the brain at the same time. We’ll also touch on less common causes, such as dementia related to...
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Rethinking DX: A Digital DSM and the Roots of Mental Health
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“Rethinking DX: A Digital DSM” looks at how the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) quietly shapes almost every part of mental health care—from who gets a diagnosis and insurance coverage to how people understand their own symptoms and identities. In this conversation, Lita and Jean Marie unpack what the DSM actually is, why the current DSM‑5‑TR matters, and how a future, fully digital “DSM‑6” could function as a living document that updates more quickly, links to decision‑support tools, and better integrates real‑world data from electronic health...
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The Next Decade in Medicine
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Over the next decade, medicine won’t just add new gadgets—it will change what it feels like to be a patient. In this episode of PodcastDX, we explore how AI as a clinical co‑pilot, stem cells and regenerative medicine, genomics and precision care, wearables, and hospital‑at‑home models could reshape everyday care. We talk about the promise of earlier detection and more personalized treatment, the risks around bias, privacy, and hype, and why equity and shared decision‑making must stay at the center as technology races ahead. Most of all, we ask how patients and caregivers can be...
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Patients as Partners: Shared Decision Making in Medicine
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This week we are discussing the rise of a new type of health care where the patients play a vital role in their medical care. Patients as partners in care are at the heart of shared decision making (SDM), a model where clinicians and patients deliberately work together to choose tests and treatments that fit both best evidence and the patient’s values and life context. What shared decision making means SDM is a collaborative process in which clinicians contribute clinical expertise while patients contribute their goals, preferences, and lived experience. Core...
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End of Life in Transition: Earlier Palliative Care, Better Conversations
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At a time when modern medicine is allowing people to enjoy longer, fuller lives, mortality is not always a chief concern. But when a serious illness occurs, the topic becomes unavoidable. This became especially clear during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when hospitals were overrun with patients, many with grim prognoses. “The pandemic gave all of us a sense that life can be short and there’s the very real possibility of dying,” says , director of the Palliative Care Program at Yale New Haven Hospital. “It opened the door for us to talk more about death and have a...
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Is Mental Health Care Changing Fast Enough
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This week we discuss the current status of Mental Health Care. Mental health care is changing, but most experts argue it is not changing fast enough relative to the need, especially on access, equity, and workforce. Where change is too slow Unmet need is huge. In the U.S., millions with a diagnosable condition still receive no treatment each year; a recent national report notes that many adults with mental illness remain uninsured or unable to access care. Global workforce shortages. Nearly 50% of the world’s population lives in countries with fewer...
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Rehabilitation Reimagined: Technology, Therapy and Independence
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The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into post-injury rehabilitation is transforming recovery paradigms by enabling personalized, adaptive, and efficient rehabilitation pathways tailored to individual patient needs. This podcast reviews the current advances in AI applications that facilitate assessment, monitoring, and optimization of rehabilitation programs following injuries. Through machine learning algorithms, wearable sensors, and predictive analytics, AI enhances the precision of therapy plans, tracks patient progress in real-time, and predicts recovery trajectories. The...
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- Multi-Cancer Early Detection (MCED) Blood Tests: These tests, often called liquid biopsies, detect DNA or proteins shed by cancer cells into the bloodstream, identifying early-stage cancers (e.g., ovarian, pancreatic) that lack standard screening protocols.
- Galleri Test: Analyzes chemical methylation patterns to detect over 50 types of cancer, with the potential to indicate the cancer's origin in the body.
- Novelna's Test: An experimental test analyzing protein signatures, showing high accuracy in identifying 18 early-stage cancers, including 93% of stage 1 cancers in men.
- TriOx Test: A new, Oxford-developed test showing high sensitivity in detecting trace cancer DNA.
- AI and Machine Learning in Screening: AI is enhancing existing imaging techniques (e.g., mammography) to improve accuracy and efficiency in reading scans, reducing false positives.
- Other Liquid Biopsies: Research into analyzing blood, breath, and urine for early signs of cancer, offering a less invasive alternative to tissue biopsies.