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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. The Kaiser Permanente study will be presented at the 2025 Digestive Disease Week meeting on May 3. Read the full story from the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research here.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

So when I turned 40, I went in to get my checkup. And I pretty much present it as. And well, when we wrote this, I feel like I’m just doing everything in my presentation. I mean, I don’t want to speak to your healthcare system and what’s happened, but that to me seems inappropriate. I Recently, I turned 41.

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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. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. ” Eric: Oh. And thankfully, he did do fine. Emmy: But occasionally people just want to make sure. Absolutely.

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