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Ocular Toxicities of Targeted Cancer Therapies

Physician's Weekly

As the use of novel targeted therapies continues to expand, a growing body of evidence has linked these treatments to a range of ocular complications that may significantly affect patient quality of life and treatment adherence.

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Common Myths About Blood Pressure and Heart Health

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Having Smaller “Mini” Heart Attacks Reduces Your Risk For A Major Event A heart attack of any size indicates existing cardiovascular disease. All heart attacks require urgent medical care to try to prevent complications.

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

GeriPal

And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening. The stopping the cancer screening doesn’t have that same sort of momentum. Maybe even had come in with a complication. And unfortunately, that trial was stopped early because of some current concerns about increased adverse events in the deprescribing group.

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Men Over 50: 3 Common Health Problems To Ask Your PCP About

Center for Family Medicine

A primary care physician ( PCP ) can help identify potential health problems and risks, provide preventative measures, and recommend the right screenings or treatments. These conditions can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and other serious complications. While BPH is not cancerous, this condition can impact quality of life.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. Eric: Yeah.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

And so to them, the real frustrating part is they’re supposed to be treating people like it’s a one-time event the very first time, and the system of EMS is not designed to be longitudinal complex care, and yet that’s basically what we’re seeing happening. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. ” That’s not a spiritual screen. That makes sure all you find out is whether they like chaplains, know what one is, and how they feel about, so we teach people two or three sentences to screen for distress.

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