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Foreskin care: Hygiene, importance of counselling, and management of common complications

Canadian Family Physician

Objective To highlight the escalating need for enhanced education on foreskin care among patients and health care providers, particularly as neonatal circumcision rates decline. This review highlights the role of primary care providers as crucial resources for patient education.

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Study Reveals E-Cigarettes and Vaping May Be as Harmful as Traditional Cigarettes

Physicians News Digest

The findings revealed alarming evidence that the use of e-cigarettes is associated with serious health complications, including an increased risk of dementia, heart disease, and organ failure. “It is crucial to educate the public about the risks associated with vaping,” asserted Eleanor Brooks, a public health policy expert.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 Digital contact lenses sound like science fiction: the translucent layer on your eye transmitting special information about your body to an outside device. percent, touch 1.5 percent and taste 1 percent. Don’t you think that’s possible?

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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

Physician's Weekly

Those big claims “seem to get on the insurer’s radar,” said Casey Schwarz, senior counsel for education and federal policy at the Medicare Rights Center. The information appears in a chart in the government’s “Medicare & You” handbook, if someone knows to look for it. But it is not easy to find.

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What is a Doctor’s Role?

33 Charts

This is the job of taking bits and pieces of information and putting them together. This usually involves taking elements of a patient’s story, applying wisdom and experience and then offering a really educated guess about what’s happening. It’s complicated when we can’t identify what our job is. Translate. I’m not sure.

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

GeriPal

Next, we turn to Emily McDonald, the director of the Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network , to discuss her study on the impact of direct-to-consumer educational brochures on gabapentin deprescribing. Additionally, clinicians participated in monthly educational sessions. in the usual care group. Eric 19:51 Yeah.