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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

We are in the midst of a staggering mental health crisis. Thousands of children and adolescents spend days at time in Emergency Departments waiting for definitive mental health disposition. It is also the final episode in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents.

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Group exercise boosts physical, mental health for older adults, study finds

Medical Xpress

Stephen Ball has dedicated his career to improving the health of older Missourians through exercise. In 2005, he launched the University of Missouri's 'Stay Strong Stay Healthy' strength training program, which has reached more than 20,000 older adults since its inception.

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Episode 209: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 12 – Our Land is Our Health: Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Medicine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

10:37 “Blood quantum” and the burden of proof 18:05 Challenges of Indigenous Peoples in medical spaces 24:50 COVID-19 and climate change’s impact on Indigenous Peoples 30:27 Racism in academia and creating safe spaces 41:22 “Data genocide” 50:11 What can listeners do going forward?

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

We additionally firmly establish that the song How to Save a Life by the Fray was a product of the aughts (2005, to be exact), not the 90’s ): Enjoy! You’re independent, drive in and out, and the more help you need, so for example, now you need somebody to help with medication administration. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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Episode 213: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 13 – Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Content Warning: This episode contains themes of violence, trauma-induced mental health concerns, and brief mentions of suicide. provision in only English +/- Spanish), limitations of medical technology (i.e., Insufficient language services (i.e., link] California Department of Justice (2021). link] The Practice (2019).

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Published 2/5/19, updated 6/19/25) Rowdiest audience ever (at a medical conference at least). It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. Among medical trainees suicide is the number one cause of death today.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. When Sturdevant first tested positive for HIV in 2005, he didn’t seek treatment. One such group is Sturdevant’s. Kennedy Jr.