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

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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. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-.

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

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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.

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

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A 2024 study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that military veterans with brain injuries saw major mental and physical improvements after just one ibogaine session. However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages. In Brazil, the therapy has helped thousands.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. It used to be a much more complicated model. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions. David: Right.

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A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

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Updated February 26, 2024. As always, Im your host, Brad Sobolewski, and today were diving into an important topic, inhalant misuse, with a special focus on nitrous oxide. You can either get one little individual canister of nitrous, or a big canister which costs about 120 to 120. References Perry H, Burns MM. Ganetsky M (ed).

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint. And so I thought it was appropriate.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”? Eric: How do you think about it, Naomi?

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