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FDA Approves Polypill Widaplik for Hypertension

Physician's Weekly

Food and Drug Administration has approved Widaplik (telmisartan, amlodipine, and indapamide) for the treatment of hypertension in adults. The most common adverse event reported in patients treated with Widaplik was symptomatic low blood pressure. ” The approval of Widaplik was granted to George Medicines.

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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. Methods The study included individuals aged 75 to 90 years, diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension, who were treated with at least one antihypertensive, or antidiabetic medication in 2017.

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Drinking the Disease: Arsenic Exposure in Well Water from the Perspective of Patients and Providers [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Chronic exposure has been associated with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, skin cancer, renal, bladder and lung cancers, polyneuropathy, and QT prolongation. This is the first study elucidating clinician knowledge on the risk and symptomatic presentation of patient arsenic exposure from well water.

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Episode – 89 – Virtual Morning Report #50 with Drs. Kimberly Manning and Gurpreet Dhaliwal – Foot Drop

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Manning was recently promoted to Professor of Medicine and additionally serves as residency program director for the Transitional Year Residency Program at Emory. Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal Dr. Dhaliwal is a clinician-educator and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. internal capsule).

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Episode 339: Neurology VMR – left facial numbness for 5 days

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Neurology DDx Schema Aye Chan Moe Thant Aye graduated from University of Medicine, Mandalay, Myanmar, and has been working with her mentor neurologist, one of only three neurologists covering the Upper Myanmar region of 23 million population.

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The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care

Mesa Family Physician

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. Let’s explore the meaning and function of internal medicine and its importance in keeping adults healthy through all stages of life.

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Don’t take it personally

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

The argument was born out of which speciality a patient belonged to, at 3am. Often there are patients with a long grocery list of problems that overlap between specialities. She had been managed by internal medicine, cardiac ICU, general surgery, ophthalmology and nephrology. This is not uncommon for Casualty work.

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