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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary We have a special extra podcast this week. Transcript Eric: Hey, GeriPal listeners, this is a GeriPal special episode. The post GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Eric: Yeah.

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Black History Month: 10 Champions of Children’s Health & Wellness

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Jane Cooke Wright: cancer research pioneer (1919-2013) Dr. Jane Cooke Wright is known as a cancer research pioneer and her work was crucial to the development of chemotherapy. We also tried to arrange the patient care considering the needs of the families.”

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family.

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FDA Announces it is Ready to Act on Menthol Cigarettes, but its Success is Uncertain

FDA Law Blog

The announcement followed a Center of Tobacco Products (CTP) response to a citizen petition originally submitted in 2013 by anti-tobacco and public health groups (including prominent African American groups like the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council) on prohibiting menthol cigarettes. 44,484 (July 24, 2013) (Menthol ANPRM).

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FDA Announces it is Ready to Act on Menthol Cigarettes, but its Success is Uncertain

FDA Law Blog

The announcement followed a Center of Tobacco Products (CTP) response to a citizen petition originally submitted in 2013 by anti-tobacco and public health groups (including prominent African American groups like the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council) on prohibiting menthol cigarettes. 44,484 (July 24, 2013) (Menthol ANPRM).

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Into the Ashtray: FDA’s Previous Proposal to Ban Menthol Cigarettes

FDA Law Blog

For some background (which is covered in more detail in one of our previous posts on the subject ), in 2009, Congress specifically exempted tobacco or menthol when it prohibited all other flavored cigarettes under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA)s Special Rule for Cigarettes. 44,484 (July 24, 2013).

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Family history of febrile seizures. And let’s be honest, the term simple sort of undersells how scary this is for families. This is an important thing that we talk to families about. There was also a higher than expected family history of epilepsy in this population. A recent immunization. Atopic diseases.

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