voydboi 'We gave red Gatorade to the varsity track and field team and yellow Gatorade to the rest of the school. Mile times among people who drank red Gatorade were significantly better than those who drank yellow Gatorade.'

Testing serum electrolytes in the week after starting an SSRI/SNRI is not associated with a reduced risk of a hospital visit with hyponatremia. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Could digital pills improve medication adherence in persons living with dementia? A qualitative study. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

There are a very few instances in medicine where exercise is contraindicated. Long COVID (Post– #COVID -19 Condition) is not one of them.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

#PalliativeCare Nursing & ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) with Betty Ferrell, ELNEC founder. We discuss its origin, impact on nursing education, special role of nurses in palliative care + more.

Episode bit.ly/GeriPalEp308 - hosts Alex Smith, MD | Eric Widera, MD

I doubt USC would have cancelled a football game for similar reasons.

I've always thought that X's (Twitter) Community Notes were the best addition to the platform. Great to see JAMA article on this as an effective measure rather than more perverse measures like censoring or shadowbanning. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

“Paxlovid should only be reimbursed for patients in two scenarios: If someone is moderate to severely immunosuppressed.” Good to see evidence in draft recs from expert committee for the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH).
cbc.ca/news/health/pa…

Here’s the real reason PG&E rates are skyrocketing in California : California Public Utilities Commission — the five-member agency appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that regulates private energy utilities — has failed to do its job.
sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Customizable Hospital Palliative Care Impact Calculator
🔗 capc.org/documents/1124/

Input operations—staffing and salaries, total patients seen, initial and follow-up visit mix, and local billing rates—to estimate the total financial impact of hospital’s palliative care team.

BMJ just published a piece that Philip Morris is funding smoking cessation courses on Medscape (where one question had no option that included quitting smoking. I just got to see their ad for the courses & it looks spot-on to me for industry-supported CME
bmj.com/content/385/bm…

BMJ just published a piece that Philip Morris is funding smoking cessation courses on Medscape (where one question had no option that included quitting smoking. I just got to see their ad for the courses & it looks spot-on to me for industry-supported CME
bmj.com/content/385/bm…

A joy talking AI & healthcare on the GeriPal - A Geriatrics & Palliative Care Podcast podcast w/ Alex Smith, MD & Eric Widera, MD. On top of discussions re: will AI replace MDs and on deskilling, you'll hear me sing/play a song (at start) and demo GPT-4 telling a young parent she has cancer (@ 19:00)
geripal.org/promise-and-pi…

Promise & Pitfalls of AI: Will AI transform #Healthcare ? Is AI more empathetic than human clinicians (recent studies say Yes). Will AI de-skill clinicians? + much more. Guest Bob Wachter, Chair of Medicine at UCSF.

Episode bit.ly/GeriPalEp307 - hosts Alex Smith, MD | Eric Widera, MD

I love connecting with old friends at annual meetings!! Can’t go wrong with lobsters!! Dr. Widera is chatting with our lunch Eric Widera, MD

A thread about Medicare Advantage, its tendency to deny claims for post-acute care and rehabilitation for older Americans, and our new @JAGS paper.

agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Parkinson's Disease is synonomyous with aging--most patients in 70s, 80s, 90s
Yet RCT of a new treatment for PD has an age cutoff of 75.
Seriously? How did this get through IRB?
Time to put a stop to Ageism in medical research
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Lovely dinner with our preconference faculty! Sonia Malhotra,MD,MS Eric Widera, MD Kate Callahan MD, MS

On my way to Boston to help give a Tuesday pre-conference on “Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine for Internal Medicine Physicians” lead by Sonia Malhotra,MD,MS and helen fernandez. Drop me a line if you are in town on Tuesday or Wednesday if you want to meet up
#IM2024

The slow rollout of Leqembi highlights Pharma’s push to diagnose Alzheimer’s solely based on a blood test - patients with MCI will always be difficult to find as by definition it is pretty subtle, without significant impact on someone’s function. #endAlz apnews.com/article/alzhei…