Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Cost-sharing interventions and patient education can help improve access to GLP-1 receptor agonists for patients with obesity, according to an abstract presented at the AACE Annual Meeting 2025. The patient was enrolled in a cost-sharing program that reduced her out-of-pocket expenses by 70%, allowing her to access the medication.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Office of Research at the Connecticut Department of Labor found that the healthcare and social assistance sector is expected to have the largest increases in short-term employment projections by Q2 2025. However, like a lot of places, Connecticut has a significant need for healthcare employees at every level.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 29, 2025

Author Teresa Sellinger View all posts MORE ARTICLES BELOW PW Weekly Newsletters The latest articles and insights from your colleagues in your specialty(ies) of choice.

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Doctor On Demand

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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. Based on this information, the doctor can provide a diagnosis, recommend treatment options, and even prescribe medications if necessary.

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Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Osman Saleem Osman Saleem, MD Medical Director, Mercy Hospital of Buffalo We’re honored to host, and even launch, the careers of so many incredible healthcare professionals who are not only experts in their field but also dedicated to the health and vitality of their community. Most of all, I saw how they supported each other.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2 Show Notes by Asya Pitre April 25, 2025 Summary: In this second half of a two-part series, Dr. Tami Benton and Dr. Kevin Simon discuss racial and gender health disparities in youth suicide. Accessed 2025.

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FDA Law

APRIL 13, 2025

By Sarah Wicks & Dara Katcher Levy FDAs Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued its second Untitled Letter of 2025 to Taiho Oncology (Taiho) for a healthcare provider branded website for its drug LYTGOBI (futibatinib). Mirati) about a healthcare professional branded website for KRAZATI (adagrasib).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. I knew I wanted to do palliative medicine pretty early Even in medical school. There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dozens of people in northeastern England have developed a rare and dangerous illness after receiving Botox injections, according to health officials in the U.K. under the supervision of a doctor or other qualified healthcare professional,” Dr. Alison Cave , the agency’s chief safety officer, said.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

We must transform healthcare into a frontline responder for climate resilience. This means: Direct influence: Training healthcare professionals to understand and manage the growing connections between environment and illness. Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on European Healthcare (2025).

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

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. These symptoms require immediate medical attention. This is a medical emergency where you should call 911.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so when I had decided to socially, medically, and surgically transition, I had to really sit down with members of the department and really did a lot of in services. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. Eric 04:53 How is it public? Can you tell me about that? Noelle Marie 04:57 Yeah. Making sure.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

You can hear Tyler and I having a great time singing together and sharing stories around his podcast My Medical Mixtape. And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? And so this is a shout out to our inpatient palliative team at Dell Medical School.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

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. You have to see about 2025 whenever that comes up, but we’ll see maybe. Alex gets to choose a song, and he maybe got asked if there was, like, a teaser for AGS 2025. Of course. We’ll see.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. Or they might, you know, they might sell their medication, which this population is also prone to. Who’s going to manage these medications?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So most of our medical schools have simulation centers. I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. And your job is to say, “Okay, what’s medically achievable?

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

And so this term was developed by our group to capture either non traditional therapies or really conventional medical therapies that patients may be pursuing with little hope of reaching a goal of care and significant risk. Eric 04:02 Jill, you practice alternative and integrated medicine. Did I say that correctly? Adam 07:05 Absolutely.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including voluntarily stopping eating and drinking ( VSED ), and multiple episodes about the ethical issues surrounding medical aid in dying ( MAID ). Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. So we know these patients are really, really sick. That’s not news to us. But what we don’t know is are they already on hospice?

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Did you have a different medication? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. The post Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. I think is a fascinating question.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It’s a lot easier to look in the medical record and see what healthcare utilization looked like at the end of life. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. Gets back to this debate in our field about what the important outcomes are. Those are hard to measure.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Disruptive events are medical, surgical. And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event. And maybe we’ll turn now from these medical and surgical events to start talking about social events. And that may include treatment, navigation, nursing care, personal hygiene, meal preparation, and medical decision making.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Bryanna Moore, who is a philosopher and bioethicist, and she’s at the University of Texas Medical Branch where she also directs the clinical Ethics Fellowship. Doing home care? Hospice visits?

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. But I know other healthcare system in Indiana, they can apply for the new program. And they can start July of 2025. Some of these models I think include more medication management, some of them don’t. Malaz: … they have to do medication management.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Alex 00:23 And we’re delighted to welcome Peter Chin-Hong, who is an infectious disease physician and medical educator, professor at UCSF and associate dean for regional campuses. And then, of course, other treatments and other sort of medications and such came out. Year four, year four of COVID What are you hoping in 2025, Lona?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You can donate tax deductible donations to GeriPal so we can continue to produce t hese podcasts in 2025. We are delighted to welcome back returning guest Jenny Blumenthal-Barb y , who’s a philosopher and bioethicist and associate director of the center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Baylor College of Medicine.

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FDA Law

JUNE 1, 2025

Senator Durbins letter references a January 2023 study from the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that more than two-thirds of drugs advertised on television were considered to have low therapeutic value.

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