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Talking Therapy Reduces Depression, Anxiety Symptoms in Stroke Survivors

Physician's Weekly

THURSDAY, June 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — For stroke survivors, talking therapy is associated with moderate reductions in depression and large reductions in anxiety symptoms, according to a study published online June 5 in Nature Mental Health. Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. Jae Won Suh, Ph.D.,

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Molecular Analysis Improves FH Prognosis & Risk Stratification

Physician's Weekly

Luis Rodríguez-Padial, MD, PhD , and colleagues assessed patients found via a population-based diagnostic screening for FH that included a genetic analysis to improve “our understanding of the phenotype/genotype relationships associated with FH that can help optimize treatments and thereby improve prognoses.”

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

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The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. Relationships are usually more complicated. There are lots of people involved.

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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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Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers have no relationships to disclose.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. What about stage four?

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

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And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And then I was inspired by this paper and then really interested in looking at the bidirectional relationship between the two of them. So still we have this bidirectional relationship. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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