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AMPLIFYâ„¢ Technology Enhances Prenatal Screening for 22q11.2 Microdeletion

Myriad Genetics

4 In a recent presentation, Dale Muzzey, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Myriad, summarized the findings this way: “We followed up with providers regarding their patients who screened positive for 22q. 5 Clear Benefits for Healthcare Providers and Patients The benefits to a high PPV are, well, myriad. Genet Med   3 , 14–18 (2001).

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Episode 384: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 26 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 1

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  Suicide & life-threatening behavior vol.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

In 2001, the CDC set up the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment project, through which a network of eight U.S. It’s unfair and “very bad for public confidence in vaccines,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, a nonprofit that promotes vaccination, speaking on a panel with Salmon at the April conference.

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Episode 240: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 17 – ‘Just’ Births: Reproductive Justice & Black/Indigenous Maternal Health Equity

The Clinical Problem Solvers

As healthcare providers, we must listen to our patients and use the power of our presence to see birthing people’s full humanity and empowerment. These statistics not only reflect the number of birthing people dying in childbirth but also evince the number of children growing up without a parent and the number of families losing a loved one.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. JAMA Health Forum. Eric: Great.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

” You can look back to an ACP paper in 2001 saying that the only way geriatrics survive is that we have to do this, and this doesn’t feel like a new conversation. She was actually the one who wrote the 2001 or 2004 ACP article, which also there was a series of articles lamenting there won’t be enough geriatricians.