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Passive Digital Marker Can Identify Childhood Asthma Risk

Physician's Weekly

. “Our hope is that using the childhood asthma passive digital marker in clinical practice will improve the early detection of asthma risk in high-risk children, allowing for earlier interventions that could improve asthma control and lessen the future risk of hospitalization,” Owora said in a statement.

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Episode 293 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 22 – Live from SGIM 2023: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2023 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Beach was elected as a Hastings Center Fellow; and in 2023 was awarded the Excellence in Ethics Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Pooja Lagisetty received her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Ethical and practical. Connie 14:57 Yeah.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. How much do palliative care fellows and in general doctors need to know about radiation oncology?

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Annals of Internal Medicine. Like, does that indirect?

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments. Chelation therapy.