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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

According to the 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown, mortality caused by extreme heat events increased by 53.7% 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. from 2000 to 2018 among people over 65 years old.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

Laudenslager, is a chronic metabolic disease with highly complex pathophysiology—”and we are programmed to regain the weight we lose with lifestyle measures.” The SELECT trial , which was published in the NEJM in November 2023, tested semaglutide vs. placebo.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? It’s been revised in 2023.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Just thinking about that individual experience, as you’re talking about Bruce. Bruce: That would definitely be considered a macroaggression in 2023.

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Evidence v. Belief: What a Kennedy Appointment Could Mean to FDA and Public Health

FDA Law Blog

Rates of chronic disease are high, as is obesity. Referencing an interview with Kennedy from 2023, the Post says that his views on health “were a head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines.” Kennedy’s tag line is that he and Trump will “Make America Healthy Again.”

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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. in 2023, compared with about $16 billion in annual federal funds for HIV in recent years.

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Not Only Harvard. RFK Jr.’s Slashed Science Funding Cuts Across States That Backed Trump

Physicians News Digest

We will leave no stone unturned in identifying the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic as part of our mission to Make America Healthy Again,” Hilliard said. Kennedy has said the NIH should take a years-long pause from funding infectious disease research. Thank you for public service.