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How to Get Rid of Old/Unused Medicines

Noreta Family Medicine

A research study from 2006 showed that 50% of the people surveyed incorrectly flushed their meds down the toilet (read more HERE ). Feel free to share this blog so that if your primary care doctor sends you a survey to take in the future, you will be able to report you are doing things safely and correctly! It’s ok to admit it.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. Afterwards, we chat with the prison’s chaplain, Keith Knauf. Eric: Yeah.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

Eric 03:57 Next time, okay, we got a lot to talk about, HIV, geriatrics and palliative care. And that was before we even thought about palliative care as, as a specific field necessarily. And so I became in some ways a palliative care specialist for people with HIV almost just by being there. Eric 01:28 Wonderful.

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

The two had access to the CDC database in 2004 and 2006. It’s unclear if he has regained access. In a statement, an HHS spokesperson said, “This scientific work will take a fresh look at all data including old data.” It added that “HHS will follow the science — wherever it leads.” But some public health leaders are concerned. “He

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

health agency has supported and produced volumes of groundbreaking research on how to make health care safer, less wasteful, and more effective. Despite this deliberately circumscribed mandate (I lost count of the number of times during my tenure as an AHRQ medical officer from 2006-2010 that I was told, "We don't make guidelines.