Hospice News
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Non-Hispanic Black, Latino, American Indian and Asian or Pacific Islander patients with metastatic breast cancer were less likely to receive this care than white patients from 2004 to 2020, the study found. Additionally, palliative care utilization can reduce family caregiver burnout and burden. “It’s
The Caregiving Years Training Academy
APRIL 10, 2025
A NPR article published last week shared how two researchers approached that question: “In 2009, two researchers proposed an explanation for why caregiving for an adult who is ill or disabled can be so profound. (Part 2 of 3.) Why don’t family caregivers ask for help and support? The c-word doesn’t resonate.”
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Pallimed
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Kollas, MD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy Several important developments have occurred since the publication of our article, “ Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?” Dr. Kollas provided testimony at a 2004 Congressional Hearing on OxyContin.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
First, we’ve invited Jerry Gurwitz to talk about his recently published article in JAMA titled The Paradoxical Decline of Geriatric Medicine as a Profession (while it’s not the most upbeat title for the future of geriatrics, Jerry sees it as a call to action). I was going to start off by asking Jerry about why he wrote the JAMA article.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
This commentary, the final in our trilogy, expands on these articles to quantify and clarify the extent of Chou’s COI. In November 2003, the Orlando Sentinel published a series of articles on OxyContin, exemplifying the media’s moral panic about opioids (12). opioid policy.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Chou had originally announced his intention to help influence opioid policy in a 2011 article that he co-authored with PROP’s founders (5), and he was a bold signatory to PROP’s 2012 Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change opioid labeling (6; See Figures 1a and 1b: First page and signatory page.)
Minority Nurse
JUNE 23, 2023
I worked in that sector for three years until 2004 when I was hired by the American Association of Poison Control Centers as a Research Associate. I took a roundabout path into poison control nursing. After graduate school, I started out as a geographer and a researcher working for fair housing non-profit organizations.
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