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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

times more likely to develop urinary or sexual complications, 2.78 times more likely to develop urinary or sexual complications, 2.78 Also, limited life expectancy increases the likelihood of complications from most procedures, including radiation therapy. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only.

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

GeriPal

Our first guest is Emily McDonald, who’s a physician in general medicine and epidemiologist and Associate professor at McGill. Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. We’re still working on this issue.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine.

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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. Should do medicine?”

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine. Identifying health concerns before symptoms appear gives us tremendous advantages in treatment success and minimizing long-term complications.

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NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

It will support one to three projects that focus on tracking and understanding health issues in the community, CNN reported. NIH is working to ensure that the people of East Palestine and the surrounding communities are listened to, cared for, and get the answers they deserve,” said NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

Eric 01:27 So we ve got a podcast on music and medicine. You emailed me about doing a podcast on music and medicine. So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. Tyler 01:12 AHPM. We were in Denver. Alex 01:15 AHPM.

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