California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

Key Health Care Budget Proposals: Proposed Medi-Cal Cuts and Enrollment Changes Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is typically funded through a partnership between the state and the federal government. Cuts to Medi-Cal and other safety net programs threaten to destabilize access to care at a time when communities need it most.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, where the derailment occurred, have pressed the government to do more to answer questions about the mental and physical health effects of the disaster — from post-traumatic stress to cancer. In 2024, the NIH funded six short-term research projects totaling over $1 million.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

Pat Connolly reported on the 2024 Maine Legislative Session: It was a short but busy session in Augusta this year. Despite broad support from all aspects of health care, the flavored tobacco bill, LD 2416, was passed by the senate but never came up for a vote in the House. Here in Maine the "shorter" Legislative Session was quite full!

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

happen in Puerto Rico, which saw a sharp increase in 2024 , triggering a local public health emergency. They are now found in 25 counties and more than 400 cities and unincorporated communities, mostly in Southern California and the Central Valley. Dengue presents a challenge to the many primary care doctors who have never seen it.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

including in most states that backed President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Those changes — plus the firing of 1,200 agency employees as part of mass layoffs across the government — are alarming scientists and NIH workers, who warn that they will undermine progress in combating diseases and other threats to the nation’s public health.

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