Bev Schechtman🇮🇱 “Our view is that opioid dose reduction is likely to offer benefit for some, while harming others. The harms may include worsening pain, distress, or death. Given this uncertain balance of harm and benefit, it would be wise for health systems to stop promoting this change to…

The Times of Israel reports (May, 2024)
anger from Israel’s military leadership directed at Bibi Netanyahu, in part because the war against Hamas has not included an achievable objective for what comes after. It’s understandable

Lacking a defined end goal, the IDF measures its…

We are so lucky at Heart Rhythm Clinical Research Solutions to have so many brilliant collaborators like Carlos D. Matos Tirado, MD. Looking forward to these presentations ✅✅

Israeli military figures are blunt when they speak to Israeli press about munitions use in Gaza

Reporting March 7, 2024 in Haaretz.com

According to a former ranking IDF officer, ‘Our form of combat at the moment is unusually wasteful. You could term it 'a war of cruel rich…

Congrats Todd McCarty 💊🐉👨‍⚕️ ! So well deserved 🎉

Veteran fencing team competitions bring out some very creative team names

I win the prize for “functionality”

USA Fencing

Congratulations again to the 2024 AMERSA Recognition Award Winners!

To read more about the winners, visit amersa.org/award-winners/

Gail D'Onofrio DASH Center Leslie Suen, MD, MAS Sarah A Stoddard, PhD

A plant alkaloid, cytisinicline/cytisine, was previously shown to boost smoking cessation.
A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine shows efficacy in reduction in e-cigarette use.

It's a weak partial agonist at the α4β2 and α3β4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. It's derived from…

Prostate cancer screening resulted in a tiny reduction in prostate cancer mortality (of 0.09%) at 15 years follow-up, but it achieved no reduction in overall death

Some may opt for a PSA test but it does not, on average, save lives

Most internists have known this for 20 years

The Israel discourse on achieving return of Hamas-kidnapped hostages features a divide we don’t see in the US

Israelis who prioritize getting hostages back often see a ceaseless military campaign as standing in the way. Not all see it that way but most

Professor Hincapie-Castillo offers a helpful reflection on the recent IQVIA Institute report reviewing changes in prescription medicine use in the USA

By IQVIA's numbers, when opioid prescribing is calculated as 'morphine milligram equivalents per capita' is matches the level…

“My patient is in shackles: can we take them off?”

Every episode of “On Becoming a Healer” podcast is a reflection on how we can be healers,

and enjoy it,

and not be co-opted by a system that often doesn’t give a damn about healing

Thank you 🙏 Dr Decker!

Three nice points from Vet Nationals at Salt Lake.

I’m on the left. Red light=my touch

Keep
It
Simple
Stupid

Nothing fancy.

Three nice points from Vet Nationals at Salt Lake.

I’m on the left. Red light=my touch

Keep
It
Simple
Stupid

Nothing fancy.

Many health care providers can have a major role in addiction health - not just addiction specialists.🩺We are proud to partner with Jake Magel, PT, DSc, PhD, FAAOMPT as he and his team investigate Physical Therapist's role in addressing #OUD