Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

On June 9, Kennedy fired a panel of scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and later replaced them with some who have been skeptical of vaccines. Immunocompromised patients, despite having a somewhat lower level of protection from the vaccine, will also benefit from it, Terebuh said. Kennedy Jr.,

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It’s a jampacked 50 minutes, filled with pearls on taking care of patients with liver disease. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Kirsten 04:52 So we did a pilot study and of nine patients, and now we’re in the process of doing an RCT of 200. Can you come and be in our clinic once a week?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

On Thursday, May 16, 2024 , the Attorney General issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to initiate rulemaking proceedings to reschedule marijuana. The NPRM was signed by the Attorney General but published by DEA in the Federal Register on May 21, 2024. 44,597 (May 21, 2024). 21 U.S.C. § Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Surrogates often either dont know what patients would want, or think they know but are wrong, or make choices that align with their own preferences rather than the patients. Or, to phrase the question for 2024, Can AI do better? After making decisions, many surrogates experience regret, PTSD, and depressive symptoms.

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