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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS: Childhood obesity is associated with physical and psychosocial comorbidities that negatively affect the child’s health and quality of life. Clinicians can also lean on social workers or community health workers if they are available. PW : How can early obesity prevention improve the future of pediatric care?

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NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

MONDAY, June 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund studies of the long-term health effects of a 2023 Ohio train derailment that released more than 1 million pounds of hazardous chemicals into the soil, air and water. Allison also praised the decision to involve the community in shaping the research.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. Asian hate is, again, another umbrella term for racism and discrimination. So we actually included that in our survey.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. I would love to get the geriatrics community to say, “Age is just a number.” Not true, actually.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

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We blogged on the December 5, 2023, letter from six Democratic governors to President Biden). Rescheduling increases the ability to research cannabis to determine the physical and mental impacts of cannabis use. Letter to U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, from Michele Leonhart, et al., (Oct.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz.