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Ep.4 “This Is Getting in the Way of Me Providing the Best Care”: An Approach to Tackle Prior Authorization Burden in Primary Care

Posted on July 23, 2024 Posted in Vital Conversations: Influencing Workplace Well-Being in Health Care | Johns Hopkins Medicine Tagged with Vital Conversations

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In this episode, Kim Peairs joins us to discuss the role of the medication access pharmacy technician, a promising approach to tackling prior authorizations in primary care being piloted at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Peairs walks us through this team-based intervention …

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What is the best strategy to mitigate the impact of fungal infections in people? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Posted on July 22, 2024 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Infectious diseases

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Fungal infections of people are on the rise, Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins professor and author of “Will the Fungi Win?” states. That’s true because climate change is stimulating the organisms to become more capable of thriving at body temperatures, which …

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Worrisome fungal infections are on the rise, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Posted on July 22, 2024 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Infectious diseases

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What is the human thermal barrier? As Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins professor, describes in his new book, “Will the Fungi Win?” it is our normal body temperature, and it has been holding the majority of fungal infections in humans at …

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Fungi are becoming more adapted to hot temperatures, and that may lead to more human infections, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Posted on July 22, 2024 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Infectious diseases

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The summer of 2024 is shaping up to be among the hottest on record, and for fungi, that may be just the stimulus needed to enable them to effectively infect humans. That’s according to Johns Hopkins professor Arturo Casadevall in …

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Devastation of food crops is one of fungi’s biggest threats to people, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Posted on July 22, 2024 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Infectious diseases

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Most of the world’s population is dependent on grains for survival, and if fungal attacks on these food sources continue to increase, starvation of many of us is possible. That’s according to Arturo Casadevall, author of “Will the Fungi Win,” …

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Fungi are worth your attention, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Posted on July 22, 2024 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Infectious diseases

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What’s your favorite fungus? You might say mushrooms and stop there, since for most of us a broad knowledge of fungi is lacking. Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins professor and author of a new book, “What if the Fungi Win?” is …

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Where do we need to start to improve health across the lifespan? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Posted on July 15, 2024 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Pediatrics

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The vast majority of kids in the US go to school, and CDC director Mandy Cohen, at a recent Johns Hopkins talk, says these are very important places to start to set up people for a healthy lifestyle throughout their …

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