Penn Medicine

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Penn Medicine employee Kayla Cook’s work to provide free period products to students in Lancaster influenced a policy to help students across the state.

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The Stitch

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Dr. Shanda Blackmon, director of the Lung Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, shares some of her healthy habits with us. The post Healthy Habits: Dr. Shanda Blackmon paints, writes to relax appeared first on Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network.

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IU School of Medicine

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Peter Schwartz, MD PhD , director of the IU Center for Bioethics and Professor of Medicine and Bioethics at IU School of Medicine, presented at Bioethics Grand Rounds last week. He focused on how to evaluate patient decision-making and the somewhat elusive measurement of decision quality. Find the recording of the talk here. Schwartz’s talk not only informed but also gave some philosophical questions about the epistemological nature of decision-making.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

There are sex differences in anesthetic sensitivity. Females recover from anesthesia faster than males. Two recent papers document this. Should anesthesiologists change their clinical care based on these studies? I. A recent study, “Hormonal basis of sex differences in anesthetic sensitivity,” published in 2024 in the journal Neuroscience , presented data that females recover from general anesthesia faster than males.

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