Why is it so hard to stop medications? Pharmacists see it all the time—elderly patients
taking 15, 20, sometimes 25 medications. Pill burden can be as high as 60 doses per day. …

• Prioritize drugs for a trial of tapering.• Try to simplify drug regimens to reduce pill burden. 10
A community-based physician might feel overwhelmed when faced with an elderly patient …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of scientists and lay people
participating in National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) grant review panels towards the …

Familial dysautonomia (FD) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by developmental
arrest in the sensory and autonomic nervous systems and by Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry…

… Barbara Farrell, Anne Monahan and Wade Thompson … No competing interests were
declared by Anne Monahan or Wade Thompson. … Contributors: Barbara Farrell and Anne …

owing to her increasing physical deficits, her partner’s medical conditions, and a recent
move to a retirement home. She also complained of nausea (particularly at mealtime and …

Background: As the population ages, the need for appropriate geriatric rehabilitation services
will also increase. Pressures faced by hospitals to reduce length of stay and reduce costs …

The first monograph devoted to an African American artist was Selden Rodman’s Horace
Pippin: A Negro Painter in America, published in 1947. 1 Perhaps even more surprising than …

… Anne Monahan … And Anne Irwin Hicks, Philip Jamison, Pauline Loper, Elizabeth Wade,
and Jobie Webb shared memories of Pippin and West Chester in the 1940s. Blaise and …

Problem addressed Canadian hypertension guidelines do not address blood pressure (BP)
targets in the very old (older than 85 years of age), making BP management in this group …