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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

from 2000 to 2018 among people over 65 years old. Relate sustainability topics to chronic disease prevention—air pollution and asthma, heat exposure and cardiovascular risks, food systems and metabolic health. We will be sharing different insights and learnings from this breakthrough and peer-reviewed study in the coming weeks.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

2018 Jul;48(3):247-250. Epub 2018 Apr 6. He initially presented to his pediatrician two months prior with 10 days of cough and unexplained fevers. The CT also showed normal pulmonary venous return via the left lower pulmonary vein. Singh J, Dalal P, Rattan KN. doi: 10.1177/0049475518765305. PMID: 29621946. Lyon SM, Rossman MD.

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Critics Suggest FDA Approving Aduhelm Will Erode the “Public Trust”: What About Patients’ Trust?

FDA Law Blog

it is not established using a validated surrogate endpoint that would support traditional approval, e.g., FEV1 in asthma or serum LDL in hypercholesterolemia). I have been boots on the ground in watching the culture shift both within FDA and in industry, as the value of the patient voice has been recognized as legitimate.

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Q&A: Experts Urge Pediatric Advocacy Amid Worsening Climate Hazards

Physician's Weekly

As climate change increases in certain pediatric illnesses like asthma, pediatricians have a role in caring for children, especially in vulnerable communities. The commentary that accompanied a retrospective cohort study of increased post-EWE asthma among children. PW: How is climate change impacting children’s health globally?

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Social pain and loneliness. Community-based palliative care networks . Raj’s reflections on the state of palliative care in the US. Transcript.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

million people in 2018), shows that the longer you know your GP, the better off you are. In Europe, countries with stronger primary care had less unnecessary hospitalizations, especially concerning Asthma, COPD, and diabetes. of healthcare costs in the EU 2018. Is that appropriate, or should it be the opposite?