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Kaiser Permanente study shows screening efforts cut colorectal cancer deaths in half

Permanente Medicine

These results spotlight the need to erase health disparities and remove barriers such as lack of awareness about screenings and checkups. Levin, MD , a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research scientist and gastroenterologist with The Permanente Medical Group.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Emmy: That, to me, is the ideal checkup-type situation. Emmy: But we know that physiologic changes with aging, like decreasing night vision and so forth, as well as medications, as well as medical conditions, can all affect whether you can drive. My general answer is that driving is usually not considered medically necessary.

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