Vida Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

With new weight loss medications hitting the market, more people are asking their doctors for help. Why Weight Loss Should Not Be The Focus In my practice, I emphasize improving your overall health through sustainable lifestyle changes and, when necessary, medication. If you've been trying to lose weight for years, you’re not alone.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Diabetes Chronic Condition 52

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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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia. How to screen for hearing loss.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

And really, the best that had ever been looked at, especially in our population and sort of a cancer serious illness population. But I think people would have an embolic event if you gave them a flipping range. But I just don’t expect my medical students, residents and generalist colleagues to do that and to have that.

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IT Patients Individual Relationship 139

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

FDA Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

This Assessment does not itself prescribe specific remedies for the ills it diagnoses; those are supposedly coming in the future Strategy document. The Assessment states that this prescribing is tantamount to doing direct harm, given the known and unknown risks and benefits of drugs in these contexts of use.

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Chronic Disease Government Chronic Condition Clinic 59

FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Major Barriers Persist The state plans to start by importing medications for chronic conditions like HIV/AIDS, mental illness, prostate cancer, and urea cycle disorder for patients under the care of its state agencies before expanding the program to Medicaid patients. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) port of entry.

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Supply Chain Manufacturing Chronic Condition Government 59