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Dr. Gil Melmed: Hi. I'm Dr. Gil Melmed. I'm one of the co‑chairs of the Advances in IBD Regional events. The next will be held on August 22nd, and I'm very excited to invite you and welcome you to participate in our virtual meeting. This meeting will be virtual this year due to the COVID‑19 pandemic.
Elderly people are at higher risk for hypoglycemia due to age-associated decreases in hepatic oxidative enzyme activity and concomitant decline.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonay Disease (COPD) is a long-term lung illness that generally shows as trouble iwth breathing and worsens over time.
Rebecca Mashaw: Hello everyone and welcome to another installment of Podcasts 360, your go-to resource for medical news and clinical updates. I'm your moderator, Rebecca Mashaw, with Gastroenterology Consultant.
Nonhernia causes of inguinal pain in the elderly can be diagnosed with a thorough history and physical exam.
Reassurance and baseline pain relief with non-narcotic medications may help in many cases to reduce the need for more significant pain medication.
Common sense states that rheumatic pain is frequent in older people, and this may be due to a high prevalence of osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.
In addition to medications for relieving pain, elderly patients are increasingly turning to complementary and alternative therapies.
Symptoms of irritable bowel system occur with some frequency in patients already diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease. Kerri Glassner, DO, explained the best way to approach diagnosing and treating these patients at the September 26 virtual Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Disease 2020 regional meeting.
<p>PRO: It certainly is reasonable for pediatricians to discharge patients if parents consistently<br>refuse vaccinations. CON: Vaccination is neither risk-free nor 100% effective, and it is an ongoing challenge to balance individual rights against mandated vaccinations in settings of low disease prevalence.</p>
Researchers conducted a study that examined how vitamin D supplementation in infant nutrition influenced their gut microbiome and its relation to the presence of Clostridioides difficile. In this Q&A, study author Anita Kozyrskyj, PhD, discussed the study’s findings.
The macrovascular complications of diabetes are the main cause of morbidity and mortality in elderly patients with diabetes.
There are multiple factors that may cause or precipitate OAB symptoms, which must be addressed to ensure correct diagnosis.
Wendy Wright: Welcome to my session of Dizziness and Vertigo: Diagnosis and Treatment Options. My name is Dr Wendy Wright. I'm a dual-certified adult and family nurse practitioner. I own two nurse practitioner-owned-and-operated clinics in New Hampshire named Wright & Associates Family Healthcare.
Angela Golden: Hi, I'm Dr. Angie Golden, and I own NP Obesity Treatment Clinic in Flagstaff, Arizona. My presentation on how to start the conversation with patients with obesity is important because the chronic disease of obesity, it's affecting almost 70 percent of the American population, either through pre‑obesity or obesity.
James J Matera: I'm Dr. James J Matera. I'm a clinical nephrologist and the Chief Medical Officer at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, New Jersey. And my topic for the Updates in Primary Care is going to be on the spectrum of NASH and NAFLD.
Michael Potts: Hi, everyone. Welcome to another installment of Podcasts360, your go-to resource for medical news and clinical updates. I'm Michael Potts, managing digital editor at Consultant360 Specialty Network.
Neha Shah: In terms of herbs and how they work in a lot of these diseases, if there are herbs that are coming out from traditional Chinese medicine, for example, or Ayurveda, the difficulty in studying these herbs is that in the traditional practices from which they have originated, these were never used in an isolated way.
Unexplained cerebellar syndrome in an elderly patient should prompt screening for celiac disease, even in the absence of gastrointestinal symptoms.