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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

from 2000 to 2018 among people over 65 years old. Behavior Change Happens in the Exam Room Unlike government agencies or corporations, healthcare professionals speak directly to individuals in a trusted, one-on-one setting. According to the 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown, mortality caused by extreme heat events increased by 53.7%

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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. GPs Improve Chronic Disease Management We live in a world of aging populations, with rising chronic diseases, multimorbidity, and polypharmacy. of healthcare costs in the EU 2018. million Canadian patients).

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

Scientists had developed powerful HIV drugs that, if taken daily, transform it from a death sentence into a manageable chronic disease in which a person’s virus levels are so suppressed that they cannot spread HIV to others. Community-based interventions worked: New HIV infections dropped by 12% from 2018 to 2022.