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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. due to chemotherapy, diabetes, or autoimmune disease)? chemotherapy or steroids). Do you have a weak immune system (e.g.,

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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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Amyloid Antibodies and the Role of the Geriatrician: Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish

GeriPal

The outlook on amyloid antibodies are looking brighter though in 2023. In a way to try and resemble other diseases such as cancer, diabetes, et cetera, that defined quote on the basis of biology. This led the FDA to give full approval for lecanemab, which will likely be followed by full approval of donanemab sometime this year.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. He was a terrible diabetic. The post Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. It happened to my mother.

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

GeriPal

Really, across the board, there was a spike, and it seemed to have, seems to have come down from 2022 to 2023. There are other acute issues, blood pressure medication, diabetes. Actually, we had to pull it up yesterday that hate crimes actually did spike during 2021, 2022, definitely for Asians. It’s still obviously quite there.