Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

MONDAY, June 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Chocolate candy sold across the U.S. No illnesses have been reported so far, but the company has issued a voluntary recall out of caution. SOURCE: CBS News , June 21, 2025 Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said. CBS News reported.

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Sound Physicians

MARCH 12, 2025

With the absence of intensivists on the ground in these community hospitals, the question becomes how to treat these patients where and when they need care. Increasingly a valuable option for rural hospitals, tele-ICU provides access to higher acuity care and support to emergency and hospital medicine clinicians who are called to the ICU.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

2025 Feb 17. In this episode we dive into the resurgence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae an atypical bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia thats making waves in pediatric emergency medicine. Well cover its clinical presentation, epidemiology, diagnostic approach, and management, including why standard beta-lactam antibiotics wont work.

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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. Here we go.

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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. SOURCE: CNN , June 20 2025 Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. s National Health Service (NHS). Anyone in the U.K.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Anish 00:24 Thanks so much for having me. Alex 00:26 And we’re delighted to welcome Emily Martin, who is a palliative care doc at UCLA. Emily, welcome to GeriPal. Emily 00:32 It’s good to be here. Alex 00:33 And delighted to welcome Evie K a lmar, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at UCSF. Evie, welcome to GeriPal.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 May 30, 2025 Doctors for America Calls for Transparency in COVID-19 Vaccine Regulation WASHINGTON, D.C. The role of vaccination as a cornerstone of public health has been underscored by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 28, 2025

As of March 27, 2025, 19 states had confirmed a total of 483 measles infections , with 444 cases associated with an ongoing outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico that began in late January. 70 people (14%) have been hospitalized for serious illnesses, and one child and one adult have died. Kennedy, Jr.,

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. Eric and I remember him from that time and he’s now at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he is associate professor in the department of social and behavioral health. Jace, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Can you guys do that one?

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Well, todays guests love music at least as much if not more than me, and they each make a strong case for music as medicine. Look for Jenny to potentially appear on the show Americas Got Talent (no lie). Tyler 01:12 AHPM. We were in Denver.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Eric 00:51 So we’re gonna be talking about caring for people with serious illness and substance abuse. Who has a song request for Alex before we talk about substance use disorder and serious illness?

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health. As the U.S.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

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). 250,000 Preventable Deaths… Every Year Why are we ignoring climate + health? Sources World Health Organization.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Do elements of care that are often administered to seriously ill patients count?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. A health services researcher and palliative care physician, Amber lauds the ability of simulation studies to isolate one variable in a study. Amber: I do. You know what?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. Another interpretation is that clinicians avoided telling the parents prognosis in order to bolster their ratings of trust and communication quality.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

We discussed what makes an illness terminal, what goes into assessing capacity for an action as simple as requesting something to drink, and whether the TV show Severance illuminates any of these answers. But before we talk about this subject, about nutrition, hydration at the end of life, people with advanced illness, or maybe not so much.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new COVID-19 variant that led to a spike in hospital cases across parts of Asia may now account for more than one-third of all COVID cases in the U.S., SOURCE: CBS News , June 13, 2025 Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. health officials say. The variant, known as NB.1.8.1,

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

-Alex Smith Additional links mentioned by Tsai-Chin Cho: – Wealth shocks and mortality in the US – Change in marital status as a risk for wealth shock ** NOTE: To claim CME credit for this episode, click here ** Transcript Eric 00:11 W elcome to the GeriPal p odcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. Is it you, Rebecca?

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In 1996, a variant of H5N1 was documented overseas that resulted in a severe illness in birds and was designated as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). cases in 2024-2025, H5N1 disease in humans had a high mortality rate of up to 50%. Prior to the current U.S. However, the 68 human cases in the U.S.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Doing home care? Hospice visits?

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. We are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolf f , who is a health services researcher and gerontologist and professor at Johns Hopkins. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Jennifer 00:28 It’s great to be here.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

Wood, director of Northeastern Universitys Extreme Medicine Certificate Program, says its important for people to recognize the signs of heat illness and how quickly heat exhaustion can progress to heat stroke, when immersion in cold water is necessary to save lives. Heat stroke is the most serious heat illness, Wood says.

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Physicians News Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

According to the CDC , the onset of the 2024-2025 flu season has been marked by an unusually high number of cases. ” The predominant strain circulating this season is the H3N2 virus, notorious for causing severe illness. The post Flu Season 2024-2025: CDC Reports Worst Outbreak in Years first appeared on Physicians News.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our conversation covers: The current state of COVID Evidence for COVID boosters, who should get them, and preferences between Novavax and mRNA vaccines COVID treatments like Molnupiravir and Paxlovid Differences in COVID impact on nursing home residents and those with serious illnesses We wrap up with a “magic wand” question. Is that right?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? You may be thinking the same. Or does it raise more issues than it solves? Not always anyway.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

A podcast producer and director emeritus of WOUB Public Media zeroed in on our article about restless doctors, sharing his thoughts on X: This must be Trump and Kennedy’s idiotic plan to make American Healthy Again… [link] — Tom Hodson (@thodson) May 29, 2025 — Tom Hodson, Athens, Ohio Oh, Canada Welcomes American Doctors! Kennedy Jr.’s

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

Many mirror the ambitions laid out in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,” the conservative playbook for Trump’s second term. A KFF Health News analysis underscores that the terminations are sparing no part of the country, politically or geographically. 28, are in states Trump won in November. Kennedy Jr.

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