Tue.Jan 07, 2025

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Strength in vulnerability: Using frailty assessments to improve postoperative outcomes

Sound Physicians

Explore how frailty assessments can enhance postoperative outcomes, reduce complications, and optimize care for elderly patients undergoing surgery.

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Tiny fish on ketamine may show how drug eases depression

NPR Health

In zebrafish, ketamine causes changes a brain circuit involved in "giving up." That may help explain how the drug helps people with depression.

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Episode 373 – RLR – A Sudden Problem, but where is it?

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] Title – A Sudden Problem – but where is it?

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They were going to be doctors. Instead, they had to dodge bombs and flee war

NPR Health

The war in Sudan has taken a toll on the medical profession. Health workers have fled the country, and those seeking to complete their medical education are finding it an increasingly impossible task.

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The fight against Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever on tribal lands

NPR Health

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is the deadliest tickborne disease in the U.S. Rates of the disease are especially high on some tribal lands, but public health efforts to limit deadly cases are working.

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New rules will ban medical debt from your credit report

NPR Health

The move, which comes less than two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, represents a challenge to the new administration.

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Bird flu: The challenges the Trump administration will face

NPR Health

Bird flu continues to spread widely in cattle and wild birds. What challenges does the incoming Trump administration face in tackling the outbreak and preparing for a possible pandemic?

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