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Stress management interventions may help individual health care workers for at least a year

Medical Xpress

Interventions aimed at reducing work-related stress for individual health care workers may lead to improvements in how people cope with stress up to a year later.

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Natural History of Asymptomatic Renal Stones Before RC

Physician's Weekly

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to examine the outcomes and natural history of asymptomatic renal stones managed by observation following RC and UD. They reviewed individuals referred for RC and UD between 2015 and 2023 at a single center. The mean stone burden was 4.5 mm (SD ± 2.75).

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Comorbidities Influence Optic Outcomes in NMOSD

Physician's Weekly

Collected variables included the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), age at onset, disease duration, number of ON attacks, visual acuity, and OCT metrics. The results showed that among individuals with AQP4-NMOSD (n = 360), 43.5% (n = 161) had comorbidities split evenly between single and multiple conditions. In MOGAD (n = 49), 40.8%

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Episode 293 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 22 – Live from SGIM 2023: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2023 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Beach has won numerous awards for her scholarship and mentorship, including the David Levine Mentoring Award from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2015. Opioid Epidemic and Stigma : Providers generally have a fear or discomfort using opioid agents as treatment for individuals with substance use disorders.

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FDA Issues Long-Awaited QMSR Final Rule

FDA Law Blog

Mullen — More than five years after FDA first announced its plan to harmonize 21 CFR Part 820 with ISO 13485, on February 2, 2024, FDA finally issued the Quality Management System Regulation (QMSR) Final Rule. The final rule emphasizes risk management activities and risk-based decision making. The new § 820.10

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

And individual practice styles are fine. This thread from a 2015 post illustrates how varying needs of a child with ulcerative colitis call for different ways to connect: Take Luke, a school-aged child with moderate ulcerative colitis complicated by sclerosing cholangitis. The problem comes with call and cross-coverage.

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Three Entities (and a Part Owner and Pharmacist in Charge) Likely Must Swallow A Bitter PIL for Their Role in the Opioid Crisis; But … For Now, The District Court Denies Government’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction

FDA Law Blog

In addition, the Complaint alleges inappropriate dispensing to numerous individuals, multiple DEA recordkeeping violations, improper alteration of prescriptions, and violations Texas law and federal corresponding responsibility obligations required of pharmacists that dispense opioid prescriptions. 21 U.S.C. § Complaint ¶ 38.)