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How Mental Health & SUD Bias Impact ED Physical Care

Physician's Weekly

Patients with documented mental illness or substance use disorders (SUDs) continue to encounter a mixed—sometimes starkly divergent—quality of emergency department (ED) care when they present with chest pain, abdominal pain, or other non‑psychiatric complaints, according to a patient‑interview study published in Health Services Research.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

in 2019, with 78% receiving radiation therapy and 22% undergoing surgery. Time spent diagnosing, monitoring, and treating asymptomatic prostate cancer in men with limited life expectancy distracts from monitoring and treating their symptomatic life-limiting illnesses. in 2000 to 59.8%

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Homeopathic Industry Group Wants Court to Exclude It From FDA’s Enforcement Plans

FDA Law Blog

Or maybe in high school English class you discussed whether The Turn of the Screw was a ghost story or a cautionary tale about mental illness. This lawsuit has FDA and the homeopathic health community looking at the same provisions of the 2020 CARES Act from vastly different perspectives. It’s a dessert topping; no, it’s a floor wax.

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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

PEMBlog

In this episode we dive into the resurgence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae an atypical bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia thats making waves in pediatric emergency medicine. Mycoplasma pneumoniae as a Cause of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children. Clin Infect Dis 2019; 68:13. Plus, well discuss whether M.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. This is Eric Widera.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). In our prior podcast with Ira Byock on psychedelics in 2019 we talked primarily about the potential of psychedelics.

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250,000 Preventable Deaths Every Year: Why Climate and Health Must Be Funded Together

My Green Doctor

Without closing this gap, healthcare systems everywhere will struggle to meet rising demands, especially in vulnerable communities where climate change is accelerating inequality and suffering. This means: Direct influence: Training healthcare professionals to understand and manage the growing connections between environment and illness.