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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

On June 9, Kennedy fired a panel of scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and later replaced them with some who have been skeptical of vaccines. Take influenza, which annually sends from 140,000 to 710,000 people to hospitals, most of them seniors, and is fatal to 10% of hospitalized older adults.

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Podcast: Cervical Spine Injuries & Imaging in Children

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Sasser SM, Hunt RC, Faul M, Sugerman D, Pearson WS, Dulski T, Wald MM, Jurkovich GJ, Newgard CD, Lerner EB; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Guidelines for field triage of injured patients: recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011. Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. MMWR Recomm Rep.

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

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Knowing I was interested in neurology and had opportunities to observe brain death determination in the hospital. Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Doctors want to know whether the patient has died. You know, when is it okay to harvest organs from a patient? And if that criteria.

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As Federal Health Grants Shrink, Memory Cafes Help Dementia Patients and Their Caregivers

Physician's Weekly

Kennedy comes to this memory cafe twice a month since being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in his late 50s. have been diagnosed with some form of dementia. And that support is for the patient and their caregiver — because both can experience social isolation and distress after a diagnosis.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.