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How Your Emotional Health Impacts Blood Pressure

Imperial Center Family Medicine

It’s similar to revving a car engine for too long while staying still. Studies associate the two hours after an episode of rage with a higher risk of adverse cardiovascular events. However, chronic stress keeps your body in a continuous state of high alert. Finding healthy emotional outlets is essential.

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

GeriPal

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. I don’t like this anymore.”

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FDA’s New Draft Guidance on 510(k) Implant Devices: What You Need to Know

FDA Law Blog

airport security screening), or surgical procedures, as well as the potential for reoperation or revision of the implant. FDA also recommends the implant ID card provide contact information in the event of malfunctions or adverse events. For instance, FDA highlights risks associated with everyday activities (e.g.,

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. Patients nowadays have evolved, so our ability to build and engineer AI systems to help people help themselves is going to be the future. The reception does the same thing, the medical assistant does the same thing.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. People are also using YouTube specifically, but social media as its own search engine. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. And you can work at different levels of prevention.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

He says emergency providers working marathons, athletic events and police and fire training sessions have used everything from kiddie pools to garbage bags filled with ice, as well as chilled IV fluids, to cool people down. Thats when we really need to aggressively cool people off in an ice bath."

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