Physician's Weekly

JUNE 20, 2025

However, the concurrent loss of muscle mass—even in the context of favorable fat loss—can cause health complications, particularly in older adults. The strategies included diet and exercise, community resources, family support, and medication management, among others.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Barnes, MD, MPH: Although we seek to improve our understanding of pouchitis and other inflammatory conditions of the pouch, much of our research has focused on outcomes or medication-related studies rather than the patient experience. Patient-centered research should continue to be a focus as we seek to improve outcomes in this population.

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East Cary Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Here are key components of diabetes management: • Blood Sugar Monitoring: Regular monitoring of blood sugar levels using a glucose meter helps individuals understand how their lifestyle choices, medication, and other factors affect their diabetes control. Limit consumption of sugary beverages and processed foods.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Bone is a highly vascularized tissue, and the link between angiogenesis -blood vessel formation- and bone healing has long been discussed by the scientific community, with several studies describing the impairment of bone healing because of lack of or diminished angiogenesis.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. Rasheeda, welcome to GeriPal. Rasheeda: Thank you for having me.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things. We’re very datified.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

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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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Stephanie Rogers, who’s a geriatrician and medical director of UCSF’s, age-friendly health systems. And so I thought let’s try to figure out actually how many they are, where they are they in academic centers and community centers.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

So, Dr. McPherson, as far as I can tell, she’s really the only person in our professional community who in any sort of serious public way said, folks we need to do something about this. I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. The old table, 1.5

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations. Are medications part of that, too? So, a lot of medications, you can see the secondary effects of dysphagia causing those, as well.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What are the risks and rewards of new classes of medications? When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. How high is too high?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

I witness firsthand the joy of well-child visits, the challenges and resilience of patients struggling to control their diabetes, and the Medicare annual wellness visit, all of which represent the collective effort to safeguard individual and community well-being. Outbreaks become more likely, and disease spreads more easily.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 20, 2024

So, eCPR, extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is an advanced medical procedure used in cases of cardiac arrest where traditional CPR has failed. Then developing an eCPR program involves building a comprehensive system of care that extends out into the community as well.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

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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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

During this episode, we gained insight from special guests Dr. Margot Kushel and Mr. Bobby Watts about what brought them into their fields, how their work reaches the most marginalized, and what can be done at the community and structural level to address homelessness. Know your community resources.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Red flags that you should always ask about include hematemesis, melana, dysphagia, and Unintentional weight loss, these all need further investigation for complications like esophagitis or another diagnosis such as EOE or peptic ulcer disease. pylori, medication overuse, particularly NSAIDs or other stressors. I haven’t tried it.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to postpone medical appointments until something feels wrong. However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. Eloise 00:59 Thank you so much. Eric 01:34 Yeah. David 04:31 Yes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We excluded deliveries complicated by known RFs for PTB (n=12,646). Conclusions: Rural residence was a RF for sPTB in this Iowa community. Setting: IHC, Iowa City, IA. Population Studied: We started with 29,620 deliveries at IHC between May 1, 2009, and May 31, 2023. Female sex of the baby (aOR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.67-0.94)

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

Millions of Americans continue to live with complications of this disease and long COVID. We need all tools available to prevent complications of COVID-19. DFA is an organization of over 27,000 physician and medical student advocates in all 50 states, representing all areas of specialization.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: People experiencing homelessness (PEH) and type 2 diabetes are hospitalized more often, develop diabetes complications, and die on average 10 years earlier than their housed peers due to poorly controlled chronic physical and behavioral health conditions. The pilot trial’s primary target was program satisfaction (via CSQ-8).

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

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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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

If you want to do a deeper dive into some of the articles we discuss, take a look at the following: An awesome JAMA review by Sarah on fall risk assessment and prevention in community-dwelling adults. This is Sarah Berry, who is at the Hebrew Senior Life and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical center and Harvard Medical School.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Identify realistic solutions to drug policy reform that promote health equity among marginalized communities living in the United States. Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Today we largely focus on reasons for caution, including: We know almost nothing about psychedelics in older adults – only about 1% of patients in published trials were older adults, much less older adults with multiple chronic conditions, multiple medications, and frailty. Alex: It’s complicated. Or does it? Eric: Yeah.

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

These medications have powerful effects in the treatment of diabetes and reduction of risk for cardiovascular disease, but they are best known now for their ability to result in significant weight loss. I am acutely aware of the harmful effects of weight bias and stigma in medical care and society at large.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. What can we do as a community?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

It will support one to three projects that focus on tracking and understanding health issues in the community, CNN reported. Allison also praised the decision to involve the community in shaping the research. She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We We desperately need real medical support.”

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. Complicated grief? Did the caregiver feel heard and understood?

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

When I was a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, I participated in their Ethics track. This included additional classes in medical ethics as well as a scholarly project examining the medical ethics of a specific clinical situation. There is no easy or "correct" answer in these situations.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. David: Right.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. Raj: That’s one of the high tech medical absurdities that we have developed.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Secondary hypertension is the more common cause of the two and is related to renal, cardiac, pulmonary, oncologic, endocrine, or autoimmune pathologies, in addition to medication side effects. 3 mg/kg/hr; onset of action is less than 5 minutes, and the duration of medication lasts between 2-6 hours. Labetalol dosing: 0.2-1

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