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Drinking the Disease: Arsenic Exposure in Well Water from the Perspective of Patients and Providers [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

In the United States testing is routinely done for communal water, though responsibility for testing and treatment of private wells falls on homeowners. Chronic exposure has been associated with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, skin cancer, renal, bladder and lung cancers, polyneuropathy, and QT prolongation.

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

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. Amy, welcome to GeriPal. Amy 00:34 Excited to be here.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

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. I’m an internal medicine physician. We prescribe medicines. Alison and I go way back.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Dr. James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine. Age-appropriate physical examination that typically covers heart, lung, abdominal, skin, neurological, and musculoskeletal assessments.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. My mom, who’s half chinese and half hawaiian, helped rally the asian american community in Michigan after the Vincent Chin incident. generation.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. And then maybe KN95s, FFP2s and KF94s, if you wear them, at least in physical science studies, if you’re inside in a crowded where Warrior stadium or something, that should provide you some self protection. Our World in Data COVID graphs.