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Episode 51 – Human Dx unknown with Rabih & Jefferson residents – Drs. Redfield & Dikdan – Fever, rash and joint pain

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Redfield is a third-year internal medicine resident at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. When not in the hospital she enjoys eating, traveling and most importantly spending quality time (her love language) with friends and family. Outside of the hospital, he enjoys cooking, podcasting, and escape rooms.

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‘Gas Station Heroin’ Spurs Spike in Poison Control Calls, FDA Warns

Physician's Weekly

The FDA sent a warning letter to the maker of a product called Tianna in 2018. “That’s what tends to get people into trouble,” Dr. Hannah Hays of Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, said. Between 2018 and 2023, tianeptine-related calls to U.S. More information The U.S.

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Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

Physician's Weekly

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said.

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Texas Governor Blocks THC Ban, Keeping Gummies and Vapes Legal

Physician's Weekly

Supporters said it was meant to close a legal loophole created in 2018 when a federal law allowed states to regulate hemp, a plant that can be processed to create THC. The proposed law would have made it a misdemeanor to own, make or sell THC products. Abbott, a Republican, waited until the final deadline to reject the bill, the AP said.

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Low-Fiber Diet With High Red Meat Linked to High-Risk Coronary Plaque Features

Physician's Weekly

from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and colleagues examined how diet is associated with coronary atherosclerosis, including plaque features, in a cross-sectional study using data from the Swedish CArdioPulmonary BioImage Study including 24,079 adults aged 50 to 64 years free of clinical cardiovascular disease, recruited in 2013 to 2018.

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

GeriPal

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. It was amazing. It was really, really crazy.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. How does integrative medicine fit in with this? Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this.