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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

The 2023 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Clinical Practice Guidelines has a section that discusses different approaches (eg, virtual visits, including allied providers, thinking about community programs, etc.). Clinicians can also lean on social workers or community health workers if they are available.

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Patient Testimonial: Dee Hensel

Logansport Memorial Hospital

It’s important to be able to trust your caregivers, and here at Logansport Memorial, we go above and beyond to develop relationships with our patients and provide personalized, high-quality care for our community. I’m diabetic and they say that diabetics are prone to blood blisters. I’ll do okay and then all of a sudden – BOOM!

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Prescribing Red Flags, Corresponding Responsibility and DEA Investigations: What’s a Pharmacist To Do?

FDA Law Blog

Some of the additional APhA meeting sessions will include: Patient counseling Veterinary Basics for Community Pharmacists The ABCs of 340B Federal Regulation Affecting the Practice of Nuclear Pharmacy Pharmacy’s Impact on Disparities in Research Pharmacists and Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Updates in Alzheimer’s Disease Unique Patient Case Studies (..)

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Five states have granted NPs full practice authority since 2021, with Utah the most recent state to remove physician supervision requirements , in 2023. Last fall, doctors made the difficult decision to operate on her foot.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. It’s been revised in 2023. But I think the most important thing is just to, to recognize, to ask these types of questions. I think it’s. Often that doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for other things.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

And actually, just my experience of that actually, I think made me want to be more, to understand more about what was going on in the community and be more part of how we could support older adults in the community, particularly around asian hate, which then I ended up moving to unlock in 2022. Specifically about anti agent hate.

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Surfers play crucial role in beach safety according to study

Medical Xpress

The research, published this week in Safety Science , collected data from 562 recreational surfers from 2020 to 2023. This study helps to quantify surfers impact on community safety. Researchers found that for every 100 surfs, respondents on average gave beachgoers safety advice 11.6 times, first aid 0.4 With more than 6.3