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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

And sometimes, you know, to pelvic floor physical therapists, to nurses or practice assistants who have training and teaching these techniques and guiding patients and practices them, then great. Most of the trials that have been conducted are conducted by the manufacturers of those medications. Alison 29:08 Yes.

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Episode 309 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 23 – Anti-Blackness, Anti-Fatness, and Food Shaming

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Harrison, a community organizer and trans theorist, and Dr. Psyche A. As an editor, movement media and narrative strategist, and storyteller, Harrison uses their extensive history as a community organizer—which began in 2014 during their first year at Morehouse College—to frame their political thought and cultural criticism.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

Alex 06:03 Is psilocybin that’s used for medicinal purposes in your studies, for example, is that manufactured or is it derived directly from mushrooms? This hypothesis Played itself out in an interesting way, Ali John 11:15 Thinking about total pain and addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual issues.

Illness 109
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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

And for that reason, there was actually an enormous lawsuit, and the manufacturer was fined, now I think 20 years ago, in the millions and millions of dollars for off-label prescribing. Eric: Although pregabalin, right, more misuse of pregabalin out in the community. So that’s kind of how it first came on my radar. Is that right?

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Buckle Up: DOJ Initiates Rulemaking to Reschedule Marijuana

FDA Law Blog

and its abuse may lead to only moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence. Marijuana’s Psychic or Physiological Dependence Liability HHS concluded that “experimental data and clinical reports demonstrate that chronic, but not acute, use of marijuana can produce both psychic and physical dependence in humans.”

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. So yeah, we’re very focused on that. And when I was born, people didn’t live past their sixties.

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Arsenicum album for Kerala school students: a bogus prophylaxis

Tiny Physician

Even a basic understanding of chemistry, biology, and physics is enough to debunk the concepts in this pseudoscience. Later, due to mass outrage from the scientific community, the label of ‘drug for treatment’ was changed to ‘immunity booster’ (5). According to their myths, dilution increases the potency of the remedy.