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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults. Framing lifestyle behavior change as a long-term change, rather than a quick fix, can inform the initial strategies to promote weight loss and ensure the plan is sustainable.

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Doctors are required to take ‘informed consent’ from patients pre-op. This means explaining the benefits, risks, complications and alternates of the procedure. The problem is patients don’t understand medical terms often and complicated procedures are often over simplified so everyone is on the same page.

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The Most Engaging Decision You’ll Read All Year – Five Stars

FDA Law Blog

Let’s just say, the smackdown—er, decision—eviscerates FDA’s approach to regulating flavored e-cigarettes. This story goes back to the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits manufacturers from selling any “new tobacco product” without authorization from FDA. They also included observational studies.

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Corona Together

StorytellERdoc

Gone are the carefree smiles, the uncomplicated daily lives, and the thought that we and our families are immune to unexpected death. Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. We are all scared. Don't engage. Let's be proactive.

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

GeriPal

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. And I found myself, at times, kind of at a.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. How do you think about non pharmacological approaches, or maybe even in the people who just have a shorter, maybe less complicated anxiety, but it’s still impacting their sleep?

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. Is that right?