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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

This starts with recognition that obesity is a chronic disease. When a child has risk factors but has not developed the disease, we must continue to provide preventive care and support for the family and appropriately match intensity and dose of the intervention. What modifications would you recommend to clinicians?

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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% Relate sustainability topics to chronic disease prevention—air pollution and asthma, heat exposure and cardiovascular risks, food systems and metabolic health. 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.” Nor should they be. “I would not recommend starting a GLP-1 in the hospital.” Patients coming in are usually sick, and many of them may need procedures.”

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

GeriPal

We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Alex 02:21 For Eric 02:21 For unrepresented older adults. But before we go into that topic, Tim, I think you have a song request. Tim 02:29 Yeah, it’s such an honor to make a song request. Can you guys do that one?

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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. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. Annals of Int Med.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

At the time they were getting out of the vaccine business, finding it less risky and more profitable to produce drugs for chronic diseases. Kennedy Jr. forced him out in May. But for Dressen and others convinced the vaccines injured them, their experiences were symptomatic of a well-intentioned but flawed U.S. The current U.S.

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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.”