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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. The information appears in a chart in the government’s “Medicare & You” handbook, if someone knows to look for it.

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

Medical Xpress

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. This region governs essential behaviors like the circadian clock, sleep, energy balance , and feeding. Your feedback is important to us.

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Does the Drug Shortage White Paper Fall Short?

FDA Law Blog

In its report, Drug Shortages: Root Causes and Potential Solutions, FDA explains that the equipment needed to produce sterile injectables is highly specialized and expensive, meaning that in a shortage situation, production capacity cannot be substantially increased without taking the time and expense of procuring and qualifying new equipment.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms. JAMA Health Forum.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. ” On that grand rounds, you differentiated structural factors from … I forget what the word was, individual- Margot: Individual risk factors.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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He created fee for service, special fee for depression. Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care. And when we made that with David and other, we talk with Jürgen Unützer.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. ” And I could tell you that’s a lot for a government agency to hear. Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data. Write to your congressperson. We hear that all the time now.