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Episode 86: Racial Disparities in COVID – Student Dr. Paul, Dr. Essien & Dr. Manning

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dereck Paul Dereck Paul is a 4th-year medical student at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and applying into residency this fall. He was a 2018 Student National Medical Association David E.

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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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‘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

It’s “going to streamline it in some incremental ways only,” Dr. Adam Gaffney , a critical care doctor and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, told NBC News. When asked what’s different this time, Oz referred to the fatal shooting of a top UnitedHealthcare executive last year, calling it a sign of growing public frustration.

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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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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

For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. In fact, the Right to Try act signed into law in 2018, allows patients with life threatening illness to access investigational drugs. And of course they were thrown out of the room immediately. I knew two things. The first bat.