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Probiotics don’t improve outcomes in children with acute gastroenteritis

PEMBlog

However, this large study shows that probiotics do not significantly shorten illness duration, improve symptoms, or reduce the need for additional medical visits. Pediatrics, 2013. 2013 Sep;38(5):467-76. Epub 2013 Jul 10. By using the latest research, parents can focus on more effective treatments like hydration.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

Attendee 5: That we are so integrated into the very fabric of healthcare that it’s a no-brainer in every single discipline because you know what? We deepen ourselves into the fabric of care and we make healthcare work for people who are seriously ill. We are not an extra layer of support. We are actually the integrator.

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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 there are different levels of power within our healthcare system.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. So when I joined Sinai In 2013, I was in a different form at that time. And great to meet Jace on here.

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Are You Going To Wake Up From Cryosleep?

The Medical Futurist

Back in 2013, Russian scientists discovered a well-preserved woolly mammoth carcass trapped in the permafrost of northern Siberia for some 42,000 years. However, if we could make it work, it would really be a game-changer — from saving terminally ill patients to solving one of the main problems of interstellar travels.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. Lauren: Yeah. That’s just one hypothesis. Lauren: Yeah.

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Impact of home care on healthcare use after a first diagnosis of dementia in older adults living with severe mental illness [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Older adults with severe mental illness (SMI) who develop dementia are a particularly complex and understudied population with various healthcare needs. Population Studied: Individuals living in the community aged 65 and older, diagnosed with SMI, who received a first dementia diagnosis between January 2013 and December 2015.

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