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Healthcare teams operate under constant pressure, making meaningful support, not token gestures, essential for sustained well-being. In this episode, we explore the gratitude literature, sharing how gratitude practices strengthen well-being across multiple domains, and offer strategies leaders, teams and individuals …

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Many substances marketed as ‘supplements’ enjoy a lack of oversight and regulation, among them kratom, a plant based extract from Asia. While some users report pain relief and mood improvement there are no studies to support this, and as Eric …

How did the current situation with kratom develop? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Over a thousand fold in the last year. That’s the increase in the number of emergency department visits nationally due to use of kratom, a drug sold unregulated in convenience stores and gas stations as well as online. Substance use …

What is the likelihood that you’ll experience a problem with a product labeled as kratom? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

When someone presents to an emergency department after having taken an unknown drug, screening is typically undertaken. Yet for kratom, which last year accounted for over a thousand fold increase in ED visits, no screen is available. Substance use disorder …

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Kratom is a drug that has been unregulated and sold for decades in smoke shops and elsewhere, now associated with over a thousand fold increase in emergency department visits. Why? Substance use disorder expert Eric Strain at Johns Hopkins explains. …

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You may have noticed among the offerings at gas stations and convenience stores something called kratom. This is a plant based drug with the potential for undesired side effects that is unregulated in the United States. Now over a thousand …

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In this episode, Heather Watson, PhD, RN, speaks with Dr. Jihane Frangieh, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE—Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Director of the MSN Healthcare Leadership Program—about the evolving landscape of academic–clinical partnerships. Together, they …

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The good news is heart failure in people with severe obesity may be reversible with common weight loss drugs. The bad news is both obesity, with BMIs of around 30, and severe obesity, with a BMI of 42 or greater, …

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GLP-1 receptor agonists are effective in helping most people lose weight, and now a new study suggests that in those with severe obesity, a BMI of 42 or greater and who have a type of heart failure, this condition may …

Is there another benefit besides weight loss of GLP-1s in people with severe obesity? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

There’s a relationship between severe obesity and one type of heart failure, and it looks like it’s mediated by adding more phosphate groups, a process known as phosphorylation, to proteins in heart muscle cells, specifically to units within the muscle …

Can GLP-1 agonists help in heart failure and severe obesity? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →