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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

No other tasks were associated with lifetime heavy use, recent use, or dependence diagnosis. We need to better understand the guardrails around safe cannabis use and educate the healthcare community and patients. The healthcare community cannot take an “all bad or all good” view of cannabis. The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. One of your articles addresses that.

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New Technologies and 3D Imaging — “The Virtual Microscope”

CDOCS

Three technologies in particular &mdash; magnification/illumination, 2D digital imaging, and 3D CBCT imaging have improved my diagnostic, patient-education and clinical skills to help to keep our practice ahead of the curve. Some other uses for CBCT are when I sense complicated anatomy, resorption, perforations, or instrument failures.</span></p>

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

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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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. Is that your experience?