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RSV: Recognizing RSV Symptoms in Adults

Doctor On Demand

Updated January 22, 2025 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a common respiratory infection that can affect individuals of all ages, but it is particularly prevalent in young children and older adults. To start, you can schedule a video appointment with a board-certified doctor through the Doctor On Demand telehealth app or website.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Deliver the program via an interdisciplinary healthcare team. Given practical constraints in many healthcare settings, who are the minimum essential team members for multidisciplinary management of weight loss in older adults? In the past several years, telehealth has opened tremendous opportunities to improve access to care.

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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. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Eric: And we’re going to get to results, but that’s why I also love that 2016 paper: I think it was the very first palliative care trial that ever looked at individuals getting curative therapy. Eric: I think about it as the first one to address individuals’ curative therapy. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? So their caregivers did focus groups. Our consultation.