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Peripheral nerve blocks in total joint arthroplasty beneficial for older patients with fewer comorbidities

Medical Xpress

APRIL 24, 2023

In a study conducted at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), researchers found that the use of peripheral nerve blocks in total knee and total hip arthroplasty were associated with a consistent reduction in risk for postoperative complications in patients with a lower comorbidity burden.

Patients

Patients Complication Specialization Hospital

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

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

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.

Insurance

Insurance Patient-Centered Government Provider

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

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2024

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.

Patients

Patients Complication Management Consulting

A prophylactic treatment for hemophilia that you should know about

PEMBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

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. Epub 2023 Jan 16. Emicizumab, though, does not fully normalize hemostasis. Epub 2021 Oct 10. PMID: 34628693.

Individual

Individual Patient-Centered Patients IT

Pregnancy outcomes and complications in refugees and other newcomers at a Family Medicine practice in Philadelphia, PA [Women's health]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied Inclusion criteria were ages 16-45 with a DME performed between 2018 and 2023. Outcome Measures Pregnancy outcomes after US arrival including desired pregnancies, antenatal complications, and delivery methods. Special attention must be paid to the gaps in care and the risk of infectious diseases in this population.

Family Medicine

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Podcast: ECPR

PEMBlog

AUGUST 20, 2024

2023; 187:109792. eCPR is typically performed in specialized centers with highly trained personnel in well coordinated teams. Rationale and methods of the advanced R2Eperfusion STrategies for refractory cardiac ARREST (ARREST) trial. Am Heart J. 2020;229:29–39. Bartos JA, Yannopoulos D. Resuscitation.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT

The Good, Bad, and Ugly side of 510(k)s—HP&M’s Early Experience with the eSTAR Template for 510(k)s

FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

FDA announced on October 3, 2022 that the voluntary electronic Submission Template And Resource (eSTAR) templates would be required beginning October 1, 2023, as we blogged about here. As anyone who has ever worked on a lengthy and/or complicated AI response knows, these responses do not always fit neatly in a text box.

Provider

Provider Electronics IT Complication

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

Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

Explore further Trials using psychedelic drug to treat trauma, addiction endorsed by Texas Legislature shares Facebook Twitter Email Feedback to editors Featured Last Comments Popular Decades after 9/11, PTSD remains a persistent burden for thousands of responders 3 hours ago 0 A single enzymatic switch steers cell fate in intestinal regeneration Jun (..)

Mental Health

Mental Health IT Medical Specialization

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

Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

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." Some SCN neurons were activated by light, while others were inhibited.

Provider

Provider Medical Complication Diabetes

NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

MONDAY, June 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund studies of the long-term health effects of a 2023 Ohio train derailment that released more than 1 million pounds of hazardous chemicals into the soil, air and water. She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We

Community

Community Asthma Engineering Complication

An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

About 3 in 10 adults reported not taking their medicines as prescribed at some point between July 2022 and July 2023 because of the cost, according to a KFF survey. Like I’m having to go outside of that in order to get them the medications that are nothing special. Like, clobazam has been on the market since like the seventies.

Insurance

Insurance IT Board-Certified Medical

A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

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. Further complicating matters is that each inhalant has its own special risks. Updated February 26, 2024. Accessed January 13, 2025.

Complication

Complication Patient-Centered Management Patients

The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210. Kleinman, A.

IT

IT Families Family Physicals

Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of diets and dietary theories is complicated and can be overwhelming. in-the-know/our-specials":{"type":"Static","pageId":"u7hat"},"./schedule":{"type":"Static","pageId":"tg6i2"},"./medspa":{"type":"Static","pageId":"hr7g7"},"./meet-the-team":{"type":"Static","pageId":"w0jmf"},". Food has the power to regenerate the new you!

Referral

Referral Family Medicine DO Primary Care

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. It happened to my mother. We can make this better.

Patients

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. We’re moving back to an earlier time, in a way, in which the locus of care wasn’t in these highly specialized hospitals.

Hospital

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Peripheral nerve blocks in total joint arthroplasty beneficial for older patients with fewer comorbidities

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

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

A prophylactic treatment for hemophilia that you should know about

Pregnancy outcomes and complications in refugees and other newcomers at a Family Medicine practice in Philadelphia, PA [Women's health]

Podcast: ECPR

The Good, Bad, and Ugly side of 510(k)s—HP&M’s Early Experience with the eSTAR Template for 510(k)s

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

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

NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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