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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 3: Pharmacologic management of agitated children

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Government. Qualitative study of patient experiences and care observations during agitation events in the emergency department: implications for systems-based practice. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award (U07MC37471) totaling $3M with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources.

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Pet Food Institute Proposes Modernization of Pet Food and Treats Regulation

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PFI’s frustration and concern around the current regulatory process overseen by state governments was discussed during the Petfood Forum 2023 convention in Kansas City, MO. PFI has noted that it is not feasible to develop and label products for an individual state.

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The MAHA Assessment’s Implications: Drugs (Part One)

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Ordinarily, a public health initiative of such magnitude would have been governed by a transparent multi-step process featuring public meetings and drawing on external scientific expertise. In other words, as you read this, the Assessments findings and recommendations are getting baked into federal government policy, for better or worse.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

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Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. And the government can do something about that?!? Alex 03:41 Okay, so today we’re going to talk about disruptive events.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

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For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. And I think that there is room for shortening the duration if your patient is non-immunocompromised and not severely ill. We talk about: . The structure of federal agencies and how they coordinate.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones.