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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

System level innovations such as the electronic health platform, including order entry, were intended to improve efficiency but may result in the unintended consequence of making it easier to order a chest radiograph without substantiating the need or in conflict with best clinical practice guidelines. Does this child have pneumonia?

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This Thanksgiving, Be Thankful for Family and Food(borne Illness Prevention)

FDA Law Blog

Gaulkin — At the risk of ruining our readers’ appetite for America’s most food-focused holiday, foodborne illnesses have been a feature of Thanksgiving for some time now. When foodborne illness outbreaks arise, efficient traceability is critical to prevent illnesses, death, and unnecessary product loss. 20, 2026.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement. So we’re trying to help replace the transportation option.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

But again, metabolic GI illness, interrupt other interruptions in feeding schedule, intense exercise. So to summarize, consider IEM for neonates with severe unexplained progressive or refractory illness shortly after birth, children who have severe neurologic or GI dysfunction, neglects associated with vomiting. 5 mg per kg, max 20 mg.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Alex: Bernie, as you were talking earlier and praising the generations of doctors today who have training in palliative care and able to have these complex communications with family members, including forming a relationship really quickly with them, getting to know their loved one, who’s now seriously ill, who they may not have met before.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

system for monitoring the rare ill effects of vaccines. CDC vaccine safety officer Robert Chen built on VAERS to create the Vaccine Safety Datalink, which looks for evidence of vaccine harms in electronic health records. The act set up the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and VAERS. centers study rare vaccine reactions.