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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. It’s more complicated than that. The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

The zero-sum medical day In many healthcare systems the Epic feature is turned on and health professionals are expected to respond. Maybe it’s our faulty healthcare model? And individual practice styles are fine. Absolutely. Patients then send as many messages as they choose and they make them as long as they want.

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It’s a Cruel Summer – Two New OPDP Untitled Letters

FDA Law Blog

The approved labeling for AUVI-Q includes warnings and precautions regarding emergency treatment, injection-related complications, serious infections at the injection site, allergic reactions associated with sulfite, and disease interactions. Honestly, we are pretty shocked that this social media post slipped through the review committee.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

And what my goal was was to try to get a 360 degree view of the healthcare system by interviewing as many different types of people that will influence care for people who are at the end-of-life or people with serious illness in the hospital. Alex: I found your quotes particularly hard hitting here.

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

GeriPal

Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. Tamra: It’s incredibly complicated because to date, there’s not really a validated tool that’s mandated to be used across all settings.

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