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Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Family Medicine Initiative

Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – â…” of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? 4 Chronic Kidney Disease The FLOW trial randomized 3,534 patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes and started treating them with s.c. Does the rebound effect really exist?

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 Experts even say the eye is an ideal place to start for the first clinical use of CRISPR. Originally, the companies promised to put the digital contact lens on the market around 2020. Globally 1.1 I truly hope this is just a temporary setback.

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Racial and Disaggregated Ethnic Disparities of Blood Pressure Control in Community Health Centers [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: 953 community-based primary care clinics in a national network from 25 states across the United States. Population: Adults 18+ years old with ≥1 primary care ambulatory visit in the network from 2012-2020, with at least one high-risk condition (heart, vascular, or chronic kidney disease, or diabetes).

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Goldilocks zone). This is Eric Widera.

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Pearls profiles: Get to know Neil Baum, MD

Physician's Practice

Reynolds Feature Video Introducing Neil Baum, MD, Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the author of multiple books. Schrödinger's Cat: Financial perils of Allograft diabetic ulcer grafts Martin Merritt, Esq. Now is your chance to get to know them.

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When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

This concern is especially serious for people with high blood pressure, diabetes, or who have a history of heart disease. However, doctors interviewed in the study had concerns about limited regulation, potential interactions with conventional medications, and insufficient clinical guidance for these therapies.

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Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Christine Twining, MD, Chair, ABIM Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board The Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on April 1, 2025. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.