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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

The 2023 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Clinical Practice Guidelines has a section that discusses different approaches (eg, virtual visits, including allied providers, thinking about community programs, etc.). How can clinicians improve access to childhood obesity interventions? It really does take a village.

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‘Gas Station Heroin’ Spurs Spike in Poison Control Calls, FDA Warns

Physician's Weekly

Tianeptine is sold in a number of countries as a government-approved treatment for depression. ” She emphasized that people dealing with depression, anxiety, pain or opioid addiction should see a health care professional to get an approved treatment. Between 2018 and 2023, tianeptine-related calls to U.S.

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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.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. Government is not the 51st state.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? The nice thing about older folks is we often know what their incomes are.

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

Part of my job was to encourage students' interest in primary care careers and mentor those who chose to enter family medicine. The number of visits to primary care physicians fell by 43% from 2010 to 2021 despite 7.4% This is where the federal government must step up. growth in the U.S.