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Your Guide to Healthcare Careers in New Haven County, CT

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

The state’s Department of Labor projects that healthcare practitioners and healthcare support occupations will see greater employment through 2030, particularly in chronic care and family medicine.

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Colorectal Cancer in Younger Individuals & The Importance of Hereditary Cancer Testing 

Myriad Genetics

A study by the American Cancer Society and published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians found that half of all new colorectal cancer diagnoses are in people 66 and younger. was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer when he was just 27 years old. Singleton’s story In 2015, J.J.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. The Health Resources and Services Administration projects a 50% increase in demand for geriatricians from 2018 to 2030, when the entire baby boom generation will be older than 65. A headband was tied around her white hair.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

GeriPal

I’m concerned about how can I get my dad diagnosed or get this proper care.” That’s at every conversation I share, “These are the statistics, this is what’s going to happen by 2030, 2050. This is what they’re projecting.” ” Alex: Projecting in terms of what?

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds. So cachexia, I would put it involuntary weight loss is the number one way to diagnose it. That patient past cache.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. What are the prognoses associated with various PPS scores? Eric 07:31 Yeah, and I can imagine, I.

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