Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Adults with diabetes have higher premature death rates, functional disability, and comorbidities than adults without diabetes. Diabetes co-occurs with other chronic conditions (CC), functional limitations (FL), and geriatric syndromes (GS). Population studied: Respondents with self-reported diabetes 50 years or older.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. Remember, family member. And that could extend beyond 18 months. We just don’t know that.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Well, even for somebody like you, who’s pretty familiar with the instruments, it might cause distress for the patient, maybe their family. And I gotta manage their blood pressure and their diabetes meds.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. Isn’t it weird that now we’re labeling the majority of doctors with burnout in 2018? I’m really into fasting but fasting is contraindicated if you’re diabetic and a number of other conditions I saw on the slide (in an earlier talk).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Researchers are learning that obesity’s drivers can be environmental, familial, or genetic. Obesity medicine is likely heading the way of treatments for high blood pressure or diabetes, with three to five effective options for different types of patients. She said the impact she’s seen is life-changing.

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