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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

Physician's Weekly

When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

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Caring for Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in the Emergency Department: A Problem-Based Approach

PEMBlog

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a complex and progressive disease requiring highly specialized care, especially in emergency situations. The condition affects multiple organ systems—muscular, cardiac, and respiratory—leading to a myriad of clinical complications. Updated 2023 Jul 10]. Pediatrics. doi: 10.1542/peds.2018-0333I.

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A prophylactic treatment for hemophilia that you should know about

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A special thanks to Dr. Cristina Tarango, director of the Hemophilia Treatment Center at Cincinnati Children’s and Lisa Littner, Project Manager at Cincinnati Children’s who helped me research and write this post. Individuals on emicizumab can be dosed once a week, every 2 weeks or every 4 weeks. Factor first!

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Texas invests $50M in psychedelic drug research to treat addiction

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However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages. Your feedback is important to us. E-mail the story Texas invests $50M in psychedelic drug research to treat addiction Your friends email Your email I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter.

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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment

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What is known is that special cells in the eye called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) detect blue light and send signals to the SCN to reset the clock. But what we observed was much more complicated." However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages.

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A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

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Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2023; 61:453. As always, Im your host, Brad Sobolewski, and today were diving into an important topic, inhalant misuse, with a special focus on nitrous oxide. You can either get one little individual canister of nitrous, or a big canister which costs about 120 to 120. Updated February 26, 2024.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”? Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004.

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