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‘Gas Station Heroin’ Spurs Spike in Poison Control Calls, FDA Warns

Physician's Weekly

Tianeptine is sold in a number of countries as a government-approved treatment for depression. Between 2018 and 2023, tianeptine-related calls to U.S. But the FDA has never approved it for any medical condition in the U.S. It cannot legally be sold as a dietary supplement or added to foods or drinks. .”

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Nephrology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Lieske, MD , raised concerns about how new government policies may affect international medical graduates and health equity work at ABIM. ABIM currently publishes internal medicine residency program pass rates for three-year periods. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. Siddharta G.

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

Physician's Weekly

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.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. Government is not the 51st state. Naheed 00:31 Thanks so much for having me here.

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

GeriPal

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. Proposing the clinicians ask a simple follow up question to the usual “do you feel safe at home?”

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

GeriPal

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. Just to let you know, Eric, we have to give the credit to our federal government. Our alliance is governed by a steering committee and we go to them and say what are the areas?

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Dual Threats From Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers

Physician's Weekly

. “We are facing the collision of two policies here that could further erode staffing in nursing homes and present health outcome challenges,” said Eric Roberts , an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. “She’s in there at 7:30 in the morning, and she helps me bathe.”