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3 weeks ago | 
southjerseymagazine.com | Kristen Dowd
The nonprofit mental health agency Beautiful Minds is founded on the premise that the brain is not fixed—it is wired for change.
“That’s the beauty of neuroplasticity. Our brains have the innate ability to adapt, rewire and grow, even after years of pain, trauma or unhealthy patterns,” says Jeff Cox, LPC, LCADC, ACS, director of clinical services.
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3 weeks ago | 
southjerseymagazine.com | Kristen Dowd
Spouses moving forward with a divorce or separation may be at opposite ends of the table during mediation, but the process is not adversarial.
That’s what Alison B. Weinroth, Esq., likes best about it.
“In mediation, they get to control the ultimate outcome,” Weinroth says of the parties involved. “It might not be everything they want, but they can control what it looks like. I always say a good divorce should be when two people walk away and they say it was OK.
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2 months ago | 
healio.com | Isabella Hornick |Kristen Dowd |Jeffrey A Sparks
Key takeaways: Patients with arthritis and COPD vs. without COPD had a significantly heightened adjusted risk for all-cause mortality. This was also the case for CVD and chronic lower respiratory disease mortality. The risk for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality was heightened when adults had arthritis plus comorbid COPD, according to data published inChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation.
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2 months ago | 
healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin |Kristen Dowd
Key takeaways:The CDC, IDSA and other agencies created updated guidance for treating drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB. The guidance is for both adolescents and adults. Following the success of recent clinical trials, several major infectious disease agencies updated treatment guidance for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis for adolescents and adults.
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2 months ago | 
healio.com | Richard Gawel |Kristen Dowd |David B.K. Golden
I highly commend the authors for conceptualizing and executing the development of this consensus document. Although largely evidence based, it does incorporate the perceptions of patient advocates and other stakeholders. This provides an improved framework for clinicians and patients.
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2 months ago | 
healio.com | Isabella Hornick |Kristen Dowd
Key takeaways:This study included adults in Nepal, Peru and Uganda. Discriminative performance improved after adding sex-specific pre-bronchodilator peak expiratory flow to St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire score. When spirometry is unavailable, physicians can use the St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire score plus peak expiratory flow to screen for COPD, according to data published inAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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2 months ago | 
healio.com | Richard Gawel |Kristen Dowd
Key takeaways: Nasal spray offers an alternative for patients who are afraid of needles. Participants absorbed epinephrine more rapidly when they also had allergic rhinitis. Treatment was considered safe and well tolerated. Participants in a clinical trial who used Belhaven Biopharma’s Nasdepi dry powder epinephrine nasal spray experienced positive outcomes regardless of whether they had induced allergic rhinitis, according to a press release.
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2 months ago | 
healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin |Kristen Dowd
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2 months ago | 
healio.com | Richard Gawel |Kristen Dowd
Key takeaways:The study comprised 264,590 patients whose eosinophil levels were measured. There were no significant changes in blood pressure following anti-IL-5 therapy, which depletes eosinophils. SAN DIEGO — Patients with higher eosinophil counts experienced more cardiovascular disease, according to a poster presented at the 2025 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology/World Allergy Organization Joint Congress. “Eosinophils have a lot of roles in the body. They have roles in immunity.
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2 months ago | 
healio.com | Isabella Hornick |Kristen Dowd
Key takeaways: Researchers found questionnaire scores indicating greater racial discrimination among children without vs. with a viral infection. This was not what researchers expected. SAN DIEGO — Black children/adolescents who came to the ED for acute respiratory symptoms and tested negative for a viral infection faced more racial discrimination than those with an infection, according to a poster presented here.
