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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

At the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), we see your agenda aligning with ours in powerful ways. Ensure that the reorganized SAMHSA is closely aligned with the medical side of HHS programs including the Bureau of Primary Health Care, so that mental health priorities support physical health priorities and visa versa.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

And this paper really gave us some important insights into older adults’ priorities about medication use that can inform these conversations. Elizabeth: Then at the same time, over the course of a year, we provided what we call tip sheets, which were educational nuggets for clinicians once a month at their provider meetings.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. Shout out to the UC Berkeley-USCF Joint Medical Program.

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PRESS RELEASE: Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion

Doctors for America

We are fighting to ensure that these protections extend to pregnant patients and that physicians can provide life-saving treatment to them without fear of prosecution.” The ACLU and our partners will not stop fighting against these continued attacks on our reproductive freedom.”

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? So cancer.net has information on this. I think there’s a lot more good, high quality information available to folks, and. But I’m guessing you all bring it up, and I wonder.

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Navigating Executive Orders and DOJ Memos That Threaten Criminal Prosecution

FDA Law Blog

Even if otherwise truthful, the promotion of off-label uses of hormones-including through informal campaigns like those conducted by sales reps or under the guise of sponsored continuing medical education courses-run afoul of the FDAs prohibitions on misbranding and mislabeling. The memo also instructs U.S.