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What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

At Mesa Family Physicians, we believe that preventing illness is always better than treating it. As your trusted healthcare providers in Mesa, Arizona, we’re committed to helping you understand and access the preventive services that can keep you and your family healthy for years to come.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. Big randomized control study that came out. Important implications.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

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And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. – Rainbows of Aging : Jace Flatt’s research site. And also of note, Eric and Alex. Jace 27:04 Sure.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

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Potential use in palliative care , chronic pain , and for mood disorders is tantalizing. Early data on efficacy in patients with anxiety and demoralization are promising. She’s also a leader in the Cancer Prevention and Control Center at the University of Colorado there at the Cancer Center. Research is exploding.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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

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Feyron has centered her work in Black/African American faith communities and churches – a program she titled Alter. Fayron: I think I was interested in family caregiving early on because I had it in my family, but it wasn’t until my postdoc days when I was writing my application that I needed to narrow it down.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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