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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law

Pharmacists’ Corresponding Responsibility A controlled substance prescription, to be valid, must be issued for “a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of [their] professional practice.” The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. Complaint ¶ 58. Complaint ¶ 59.

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The Link Between Diabetes and Peripheral Arterial Disease

Vascular Physician

If you have been diagnosed with diabetes or PAD, managing your condition is the best way to prevent it from worsening and contributing to other health issues. Additionally, if you have been diagnosed with diabetes, one or more of these risk factors could put you at risk for developing PAD.

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What Triggers May-Thurner Syndrome

Vascular Physician

Because of this, it is common for blood to pool in the individual's leg or for them to develop deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which occurs when a blood clot forms in the deep veins of the leg. If your healthcare provider suspects that you could have May-Thurner syndrome, they will likely use noninvasive imaging studies to diagnose you.

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Getting Answers: A Patient's Guide to Discussing Unexplained Symptoms with Your Doctor

Vida Family Medicine

Unfortunately among these alternative practitioners are many individuals who are selling tests, treatments, or supplements that are at best useless and expensive but at worst actually harmful. If you have already been diagnosed with any medical conditions, write down all of the diagnoses you have.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

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Understanding Pelvic Venous Disorders

Vascular Physician

It is estimated that this affects up to thirty percent of individuals with chronic pelvic pain and is most likely to develop in women who have previously given birth. If you have been diagnosed with pelvic venous disorders or suspect that you might have it, here is what you need to know about understanding the condition.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

And when you and I talk about, what’s the key medical decision or diagnosis that we’re making all the time, we’re making a decision about like, “Is this patient sick enough to die? So we did a perfect cross so that the race and actual primary diagnosis was perfectly matched across groups.