Focus on Geriatric Medicine and Aging

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2023-03-10

  GlyNAC and Healthy Aging: A Review of New Clinical Data

Guest: Rajagopal Sekhar, MD Clinicians are still working to understand the mechanisms behind age-related declines and what interventions might help promote healthy aging. Could supplementation with the nutritional compounds glycine and n-acet...
2020-03-30

  Monitoring Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Elderly Women with Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Slavica Janeva, MD Despite the increasing number of elderly patients diagnosed with breast cancer, few clinical trials focus on this age group. That’s why Dr. Slavica Janeva's team focused on the impacts of adjuvan...
2020-03-30

  Monitoring Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Elderly Women with Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Slavica Janeva, MD Despite the increasing number of elderly patients diagnosed with breast cancer, few clinical trials focus on this age group. That’s why Dr. Slavica Janeva's team focused on the impacts of adjuvan...
2018-06-04

  Strategies for Improving Outcomes in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

Host: Dr. Andrew Wilner Guest: Daniel E. Kremens, MD, JD Guest: Michael S. Okun, MD Parkinson’s disease (PD) affects roughly one million Americans and more than 10 million people worldwide. It is a progressive neurologic disorder characterized by...
2018-06-04

  Strategies for Improving Outcomes in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

Host: Dr. Andrew Wilner Guest: Daniel E. Kremens, MD, JD Guest: Michael S. Okun, MD Parkinson’s disease (PD) affects roughly one million Americans and more than 10 million people worldwide. It is a progressive neurologic disorder characterized by...
2017-12-11

  Best in Show: The Health Benefits of Therapy Dogs

Host: Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP Several studies have shown that therapy dogs help to reduce people’s pain levels and anxiety. Therapy dogs have also been found to increase patients’ physical, mental, emotional and social states and improve their ...
2017-12-11

  Best in Show: The Health Benefits of Therapy Dogs

Host: Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP Several studies have shown that therapy dogs help to reduce people’s pain levels and anxiety. Therapy dogs have also been found to increase patients’ physical, mental, emotional and social states and improve their ...
2017-10-27

  Treating Hip Fractures in Elderly Patients: An Orthopedic Surgeon's Perspective

Host: Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP Out of the approximately 340,000 hip fractures that occur in the US each year, 9 out of 10 of them happen to people older than 65. Hip fractures in an older population can result in significant complications includ...
2017-10-27

  An Orthopedic Surgeon's Perspective on Treating Hip Fractures in Elderly Patients

Host: Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP Out of the approximately 340,000 hip fractures that occur in the US each year, 9 out of 10 of them happen to people older than 65. Hip fractures in an older population can result in significant complications includ...
2017-10-27

  Treating Hip Fractures in Elderly Patients: An Orthopedic Surgeon's Perspective

Host: Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP Out of the approximately 340,000 hip fractures that occur in the US each year, 9 out of 10 of them happen to people older than 65. Hip fractures in an older population can result in significant complications includ...