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RSV: Recognizing RSV Symptoms in Adults

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Updated January 22, 2025 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a common respiratory infection that can affect individuals of all ages, but it is particularly prevalent in young children and older adults. Get RSV Treatment Today See an online doctor in minutes to get diagnosed and treated for RSV.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

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Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

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Nancy 03:05 And just not to do any sort of spoiler alert here, but 2025 is their last time doing this session at AGS. And I also worry about this push towards just amyloid blood testing so as a way of diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease without doing the workup that’s needed beforehand. Of course. We’ll see.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

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And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

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So let’s say a patient who has lung cancer, relatively newly diagnosed, has a long history of substance use disorder, had been taking methadone as an outpatient, and now has this pain. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. You know the case. Eric 31:10 Okay, do the case. Alex 31:10 Do the case.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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And if the doctors still come up with different diagnoses or perceptions of what’s happening with the patient and or treatment plans, that’s all on them. We can talk in 2025. Amber Barnato appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Amber: You know what?

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

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May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. You know, they’re seeing their patient in the hospital, and they don’t. Alex 24:38 That’s terrific.

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