GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

About 3,700 new dengue infections were reported last year in the contiguous United States, up from about 2,050 in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. happen in Puerto Rico, which saw a sharp increase in 2024 , triggering a local public health emergency. Most people who contract dengue don’t get sick.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Doctors want to know whether the patient has died. You know, when is it okay to harvest organs from a patient? And a lot of my work has kind of been that vein. Alex 04:49 Amyloid.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

For more than a decade, a small team of people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked to do just that, issuing national guidelines for clinicians on how to prescribe contraception safely for millions of women with underlying medical conditions — including heart disease, lupus, sickle cell disease, and obesity.

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