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Sleep Disorders: Improving Rest For Better Overall Health

Center for Family Medicine

Studies show that exercise helps individuals fall asleep faster while improving sleep quality. Medical interventions for a restful night Some individuals need additional support to increase sleep quality, especially if lifestyle changes fail to show improvements. The timing of meals can also lead to issues like insomnia.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

What should we use to screen individuals? So people who have Medicare mostly fee for service in a dementia diagnosis should have access to a care, essentially a care navigator for the duration of their condition, or at least the duration of the program. Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive?

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The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care

Mesa Family Physician

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. Internal medicine is a medical specialty focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. What Is Internal Medicine?

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Preventive Care To Maintain Your Overall Health

Mesa Family Physician

Why Preventive Health Maintenance Matters The importance of public health and individual wellness cannot be overstated. Many chronic diseases—such as heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers—can be better managed or even prevented through routine checkups, lifestyle changes, and early detection strategies.

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

GeriPal

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. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

If somebody’s dealing with a chronic pain and multiple chronic diseases, they have an opioid use disorder and we get referred that patient to a palliative care clinic is that in our Bailey wick? They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

As unarguably the most intense advocates of vaccine-preventable diseases, they are often the first place of reference for both childhood and adult vaccinations. Chronic Disease Yes 35 (51.5) Individuals over 65 years of age at home Yes 23 (65.7) COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) 150 (54.3) 126 (45.7)