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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

A recent study offers recommendations on how to balance weight loss goals and bone health concerns in weight management programs for older adults. Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults.

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Digestive Health: When To See Your Doctor About Chronic Gut Problems

Center for Family Medicine

In some cases, sharp, localized pain could be a sign of appendicitis, which requires immediate medical attention. Early evaluation prevents complications like malnutrition or aspiration. Untreated GERD can lead to complications such as esophagitis , Barrett's esophagus, or even esophageal cancer.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management. These symptoms require immediate medical attention.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. It's a common challenge many people face.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. So we got a lot to cover.

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

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

You can hear Tyler and I having a great time singing together and sharing stories around his podcast My Medical Mixtape. And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? And so this is a shout out to our inpatient palliative team at Dell Medical School.

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