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

GeriPal

And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia. One thing we’ve looked at a little bit, but it has not been well studied is the accumulation of ototoxic medications. Five big manufacturers.

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FDA-Approved Labeling: Is Enough Enough?

FDA Law

Brand drugs, generic drugs, and medical devices alike have all been the target of state failure-to-warn litigation; in a recent case, OTC acetaminophen is the target. This is because the presumption that manufacturers can unilaterally make substantive changes to the labeling of an OTC Monograph drug product is false.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

And so any additional stressor such as heat or an extreme weather event or having to move from your home because of a climate related disaster can really tax an older adult whose window of resilience is more limited. And it is going to affect, if it hasn’t already, our food quality, the food that’s available, our medications.