Individuals who have advanced dementia or other conditions that put them at a high risk of death within six months may benefit from a reduction of blood pressure medications, yet deprescribing occurs in less than half of these individuals, according...
Every day across the United States and the world, health care providers demonstrate quiet humanity as they deliver patient care during a pandemic. Here are just a few stories that exemplify that from Legacy Care, an independent medical group of...
The treatment of elevated cholesterol, particularly with β-hydroxy β-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors, commonly known as statins, is measured by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in various different ways. Statin Use...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the medical humanitarian care organization that has worked for 50 years in conflict zones and on infectious disease outbreaks throughout the world, for the first time in its history has stepped...
In “Truth-Telling, Equity, & Professionalism: Lessons in Leadership from the COVID Frontlines,” James Wright, MD, PhD, MATS, CMD, shared his very personal journey through the COVID-19 pandemic and related how truth-telling was his companion...
Before becoming the president of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, David Nace, MD, MPH, CMD, spoke with some of his predecessors about the role. “They told me about what was involved, and they said I would be perfectly...
