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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

For instance, the UK government’s initiative to install solar panels on National Health Service sites is projected to save each site up to £45,000 annually, amounting to approximately £13 million in total savings per year. From rising asthma rates to heat-related illnesses, climate change is already harming the most vulnerable among us.

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AAP Updates Recommendations for Adolescent Contraceptive Counseling

Physician's Weekly

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published online June 16 in Pediatrics , updated recommendations are presented for providing adolescent patients with contraceptive counseling and methods. ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. .

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STATEMENT RELEASE: Reproductive Health Coalition Statement on Impact of Medicaid Cuts

Doctors for America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 June 27, 2025 Reproductive Health Coalition Statement on Impact of Medicaid Cuts WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nearly 1 in 5 Americans depend on Medicaid for health and long-term care coverage.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Noelle Marie 01:15 I do.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

And the government can do something about that?!? I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!?

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Not Only Harvard. RFK Jr.’s Slashed Science Funding Cuts Across States That Backed Trump

Physicians News Digest

Many mirror the ambitions laid out in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,” the conservative playbook for Trump’s second term. A Hit to Rural Health Congress previously tried to ensure that NIH grants also went to states that historically have had less success obtaining biomedical research funding from the government. Kennedy Jr.