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Growing Overlap of COPD, Severe Obesity, and Sleep Apnea

Physician's Weekly

They analyzed using NHANES data from 2005–2008 and 2015–March 2020. kg/m 2 The results showed that from 2005–2008 to 2015–March 2020, the proportion of individuals with a triple overlap of COPD, severe obesity, and HR-OSA rose from 0.653% [95% CI, 0.651–0.655%] to 1.560% [95% CI, 1.557–1.563%].

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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Common Sense Family Doctor

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Is there a role for the primary care doctor, for the anesthesiologist, for the consulting team, for … Eric: Integrative geriatrics. We’re available, palliative care. Alex: Mm-hmm. Last question from me. We put a lot on the surgeon here.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

A research study in Health Affairs charts "physicians' trajectories from medical school graduation through postgraduate training into primary care specialties" for MD, DO, and international medical graduates from 2001-15. and 3.6%, respectively, in 2008-09 to 14.3% It's well documented that schools that are ranked highly by U.S.

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CDC Pulls Vaccine Slide After Expert Cites Study Doesn’t Exist

Physician's Weekly

The slide, posted online Tuesday, cited a 2008 paper titled “Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain,” and was said to have been published in the journal Neurotoxicology. I don’t have a publication in Neurotoxicology by that title,” Berman told CNN.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. And they were prescribed those opioids from an online prescriber, that was not from a palliative care practice by the way, but some online prescriber of opioids.