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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Weight loss programs for older adults also benefit from co-management by an interdisciplinary team that may include a geriatrician, an obesity medicine specialist, an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian, a bone metabolism specialist, a physical therapist and an exercise physiologist.

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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

In the event you are unsuccessful at extending your graduation date or securing an internship position, options for practicing medicine tend to become severely limited. After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections.

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FDA’s Issues Draft Guidance on Accelerated Approval: A Substantial Evidentiary and Procedural Overhaul to this High-Profile Pathway

FDA Law Blog

Lastly, the reforms enacted by FDORA required that FDA publish guidance on early consultation with FDA to identify novel surrogate or intermediate clinical endpoints, use of novel trials designs for postapproval studies, the expedited withdrawal procedures, and considerations related to the use of surrogate and intermediate clinical endpoints.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. How do we move on? She had been included.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. difficile infections. Devika: Thank You. Eric: Thank you.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia. I don’t see myself in that world.” Eric: Yeah.

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Is It Hormones or Just Stress? How to Tell the Difference

Dr. Michael Bazel

Also Read: Low Testosterone in Men: Signs, Causes, and Treatment Options How Stress Manifests Physically and Emotionally Stress is a natural response to pressure, danger, or significant life changes. Schedule a consultation with Dr. Bazel today to explore whether your symptoms are caused by stress, a hormone imbalance, or both.

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