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Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Primary care is essential to health but barriers include affordability of care and accessibility of physicians. Importantly, Virginia's Medicaid expansion reduced cost-related barriers to accessing care for over 700,000 individuals. Of these, 117,481 (57.2%) individuals had at least one primary care visit.

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2025 POP! Keynote Revealed

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Keynote, Emily Silverman, MD is an internal medicine doctor in San Francisco and Founder of The Nocturnists , an award winning podcast. She has a new 13-part documentary series called the Uncertainty in Medicine. Emily is an internal medicine doctor in San Francisco and Founder of The Nocturnists. Our 2025 POP!

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Episode 354: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 25 – Live from SGIM 2024: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2024 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD is a health disparities researcher, social epidemiologist and General Internal Medicine physician specializing in the care of women with chronic medical conditions. Health Equity Considerations in State Bills Related to Doula Care (2015–2020). JAMA Internal Medicine , 183 (10), 1172–1175.

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Prescribing ADHD Meds by Telehealth Does Not Alter Risk for Substance Use Disorder Overall

Physician's Weekly

from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record data from March 1, 2020, to Aug. Vinod Rao, M.D.,

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Wildfire-Induced Changes in Behavior Affect Spread of Airborne Disease

Physician's Weekly

West Coast wildfires of 2020 affected the spread of airborne diseases. Beatriz Arregui-García, from Instituto de Fisica Interdisciplinary Sistemas Complejos in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and colleagues examined how wildfire-induced changes in human behavior during the U.S.

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Arsenic Less Than EPA Maximum Contaminant Level Tied to Adverse Birth Outcomes

Physician's Weekly

Infants were born between 2005 and 2020. Nigra, Sc.M., from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, and colleagues examined the association between prenatal public water arsenic exposure below the federal regulatory standard of 10 μg/L and birth outcomes. The cohort comprised 13,998 birthing parents.

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Midea Recalls 1.7 Million AC Units Over Mold Risk

Physician's Weekly

The air conditioners were sold between March 2020 and May 2025 at major retailers like Best Buy, Costco and Home Depot. At least 17 people have reported getting sick from the exposure, with symptoms such as coughing, sore throats and respiratory infections. They cost between $280 and $500.