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Winning the Battle Against Obesity – Digital Health Visions

The Medical Futurist

Obesity increases the risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, it can affect bone health and reproduction, and it also increases the risk of certain cancers. Instead, Kate downloads a report from her app and sensor, compiling all the data on her diet, activity, and achievements. However, they have not yet become widely accessible.

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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

There are also free materials available from the AAP that a clinician can download to help them with implementation. Boles, PhD , and Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS, identify major risk factors for infant and early childhood weight gain that are prevalent during pregnancy and in the first 1,000 days of childhood. It really does take a village.

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

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. Alex 00:07 We have a full house to talk about deprescribing.

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“Antibiotic Failure” – Mike Rose

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Case: Mrs. G is a 66-year-old woman with a past medical history of insulin-dependent diabetes and peripheral artery disease admitted from clinic with concern for left ankle and foot cellulitis. In cellulitis this would most commonly be MRSA, and given Mrs. G’s diabetes, Pseudomonas and ESBL producing gram negative rods are possible as well.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. But is it really burnout—or something more serious? Thank you for joining us Dr. Wible. To be real.

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