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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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

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And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. And so often we get consulted by teams that say, “I have this older patient and they’re pretty isolated and I think they have dementia. Hearing aids, you had six big manufacturers of hearing aids.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. Then fast forward a year.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs.

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Joint Basis for FDA/HHS Marijuana Rescheduling Recommendation Unveiled

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Controlled substances that have an accepted medical use are classified in schedules II-V based on their relative potential for abuse and physical and psychological dependence. or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions; and The drug’s relative safety or ability to produce physical dependence compared to other drugs.

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DEA Concurs: Marijuana Meets Schedule III Criteria

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and their abuse may lead to moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence. FDA further noted that clinical studies demonstrate that marijuana produces physical and psychological dependence, and abuse may lead to moderate or low physical dependence depending on frequency and degree of marijuana exposure.

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Buckle Up: DOJ Initiates Rulemaking to Reschedule Marijuana

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and its abuse may lead to only moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence. Marijuana’s Psychic or Physiological Dependence Liability HHS concluded that “experimental data and clinical reports demonstrate that chronic, but not acute, use of marijuana can produce both psychic and physical dependence in humans.”