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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

On May 14, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom released the revised 2025-26 state budget to address a projected $12 billion deficit , a sharp contrast to the modest surplus anticipated in January. To fill that gap, California has chosen to use state-only funds to provide certain Medi-Cal benefits to undocumented Californians.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

This isn’t just about saving the planet—it’s also about saving money, protecting patients, and strengthening our healthcare systems from the inside out. Dilating and anesthetic eye drops are routinely offered to patients in most ophthalmology clinics. Now, more than ever, they must also become champions of planetary health.

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Referral Patterns and Gaps in HLA-B27

Physician's Weekly

A retrospective analysis study published in June 2025 issue of Journal of Rheumatology, researchers examined how HLA-B27 testing has been utilized in routine clinical practice for diagnosing spondylarthritis ( SpA ). Overall, 11% of patients tested positive for HLA-B27. Source: jrheum.org/content/early/2025/06/11/jrheum.2025-0167

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Biomarker Panel Improves Prediction of CKD Progression in Children

Physician's Weekly

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A biomarker panel can improve prediction of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression in children, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Abstract/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required) Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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Vedolizumab Outperformed Infliximab in Real-World Outcomes

Physician's Weekly

The following is a summary of “Treatment sequences, outcomes, healthcare utilization, and costs in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases requiring advanced treatment—real world comparative effectiveness from German claims data,” published in the June 2025 issue of BMC Gastroenterology by Dignass et al.

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How hospitals can cut admission delays by 30%

Today's Hospitalist

Those interventions included standardizing both bed assignments and nursing handoffs while having ED providers—not an inpatient team—enter skeletal orders when deciding to admit a patient. Such delays can compromise patient care by increasing mortality, medical errors and length of stay.

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CDRH Seeks Public Comment on How to Increase Patient Access to At-Home Use Medical Technologies

FDA Law Blog

According to the announcement, enabling patients to access medical devices beyond traditional clinical settings can help close the healthcare gap by delivering care “directly to patients, wherever they are – at home, at work, in cities, in rural communities.” and remote or wearable patient monitoring devices (e.g.,

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