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Brain development in kids, multimorbidity, childhood obesity, and prehabilitation
This week's topics include SES and brain development in kids, lifestyle changes and multimobidity, food labeling and childhood obesity, and prehabilitation in elders.
CVD risk factors, cognitive decline, insulin price, and factors in IBD
This week's topics include visceral fat and CVD risk factors, delirium and cognitive decline and hospitalization, caps on insulin price, and factors involved with IBD.
Resistance training, low back pain, cfDNA cancer screening delays, and GLP1s and knee replacement
This week's topics include duration of dual anticoagulation following bypass grafting or stents, how has management of miscarriage changed, at home rehab after an ICU stay, and weight loss for atrial fibrillation.
PCOS name change, whole blood, antibiotics, and blood markers
This week's topics include digoxin for heart failure, thrombectomy for strokes in medium sized vessels, maternal occupation during pregnancy and ASD in offspring, and exercise and 24 hr ambulatory blood pressure.
Digoxin, thrombectomy, maternal occupation during pregnancy, and exercise
This week's topics include digoxin for heart failure, thrombectomy for strokes in medium sized vessels, maternal occupation during pregnancy and ASD in offspring, and exercise and 24 hr ambulatory blood pressure.
Nonprofit hospital work, GLP-1 use, weight loss drugs, and transcranial stimulation
This week's topics include outcomes after consultant work in nonprofit hospitals, use of GLP-1s in AUD, a model for predicting benefit from weight loss medicines, and transcranial stimulation for ASD.
Polypill, bloodstream infections, Paxlovid, and treating acute sinusitis
This week's topics include a polypill for HTN following stroke, clinical impact of rapid tests for gram negative bloodstream infections, is there any remaining role for Paxlovid, and treating acute sinusitis.
PPIs, kidney function equations, DVT, and timing of exercise
This week's topics include deprescribing PPIs, kidney function equations, stenting for DVT, and timing of exercise according to chronotrope type.
Levothyroxine, drug coupons, low cholesterol and heart disease, and hypertension
This week's topics include deprescribing levothyroxine, drug manufacturer coupon use, how low should cholesterol be targeted in those with heart disease, and hypertension in low-income patients.
Sleep in adolescents, GLP1s, predicting Alzheimer's, and cancer screenings
This week's topics include sleep in adolescents, GLP1s in different people, predicting Alzheimer's onset, and screening for colorectal cancer and potential harms.
Statin therapy, shoulder MRIs, planetary health diet, and food prescriptions
This week's topics include patient views of statin therapy, MRI of shoulders, a planetary health diet, and food prescriptions in people with diabetes.
Removing fallopian tubes to prevent ovarian cancer, and using the EHR to deprescribe risky medicines
This week's topics include an oral PCSK9 inhibitor, knee braces, removing fallopian tubes to prevent ovarian cancer, and using the EHR to deprescribe risky medicines in older adults.
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