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Seeking Nature Healing

Doctor Rachel

I don't know about you, but I have had a VERY busy spring—at work and at home—with multiple family members in need of support and medical care. Reduced cardiovascular, respiratory disease and long-term illness 17. Reduced occurrence of illness 18. Reduced mortality rates from circulatory disease 13. Faster healing 14.

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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. However, this large study shows that probiotics do not significantly shorten illness duration, improve symptoms, or reduce the need for additional medical visits.

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

Physician's Weekly

Robin Wolaner, 71, a retired publisher in Sausalito, California, has been known to badger friends who delay getting recommended shots, sending them relevant medical studies. “Season in and season out,” Schaffner said, “it produces outbreaks of serious respiratory illness that rivals influenza.”

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

We deepen ourselves into the fabric of care and we make healthcare work for people who are seriously ill. How do we reduce barriers to access for palliative care, and how do we ensure that people with serious illness and palliative care needs really get that care? Attendee 9: Early integration of palliative care in medical education.

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PEMPix 2023 Online Case 3: The Only Thing We Have to Fear

PEMBlog

No medication exposures. However for preterm newbown with more severe illness, systemic antibiotics along with intravenous immunoglobulins may be necessary. The rash had since evolved into full-body erythroderma sparing the palmar and plantar surfaces. There were no measured fevers at home or known sick contacts. Mom was GBS negative.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

2013-0421 Tighe M, Afzal NA, Bevan A, et al. uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals. pylori, medication overuse, particularly NSAIDs or other stressors. You also want to take a detailed history of medication use, especially NSAIDs. 2018;66(3):516-554.

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

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

“A lot of times when we talk about mental illness or mental health, I think there’s a lot missing from the conversation,” Dr. Joy said. “I It doesn’t always have to be about mental illness.” In 1891, Williams opened Provident Hospital, the first medical facility to have an interracial staff.