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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

Inconsistency in care delivery So as every provider shapes her practice around MyChart, each will do it in a slightly different way. And individual practice styles are fine. But this may not be consistently applied by other providers in the same group. The problem comes with call and cross-coverage. How do we fix this?

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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. August 2024 Untitled Letter to Mirati Therapeutics Inc. Just some food for thought.

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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

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. And so one of the things that I felt as a resident was moral distress around some of the treatments that we provide near the end-of-life.

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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. We provide critical education. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.”

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Basically, there’s a lot of variation amongst hospice providers.

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