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Redesigning Primary Care Workflows to Optimize Obesity Management

Physician's Weekly

2 As a result, obesity may be underprioritized in routine visits, and patients may miss opportunities to manage a chronic disease that significantly raises the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers.

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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

In This Issue : New Research: Teaching Patients about Climate Resilience Make the Pledge Today to Go Green Get Ready for Earth Day 2025 (part 2)! Heather Massey, Sustainability Programs Manager hmassey@mygreendoctor.org (469) 877-4608 Make the Pledge Today! from 2000 to 2018 among people over 65 years old. Contact us today!

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Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

Physician's Weekly

Cost-sharing interventions and patient education can help improve access to GLP-1 receptor agonists for patients with obesity, according to an abstract presented at the AACE Annual Meeting 2025. Health is a social good, and thus society has an obligation to provide health services that address the needs of all.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

Key takeaways: Hospitalists will increasingly have to manage inpatients taking GLP-1s. They presented a rapid clinical update Webinar in May 2025 hosted by the Society of Hospital Medicine. ” That is why, she added, anti-obesity medications are such an important strategy in long-term management.

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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? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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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. And policymakers ensured that almost everyone in the U.S. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.