The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. Key findings include: 1.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ). in the usual care group.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As the 2025 legislative session swings into full gear, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has set its sights on a cadre of pivotal bills set to shape the healthcare landscape for years to come. Senate SB 43 – Patient Price Transparency Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Sen.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 25, 2025

By building an integrated, patient-centered colorectal cancer screening program, we doubled screening rates, cut deaths by 50%, and made major strides in closing racial disparities in outcomes. What we found is truly impressive: Screening rates among KPNC patients nearly doubled — from 37.4%

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Is the patient in your descriptor?

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. And I performed for many palliative patients, and that’s when I started to understand.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

Sucrose is thought to activate centers of the brain that modulate pain and lead to the release of endorphins , but the exact mechanism remains unclear. Our findings are similar regarding a childs cognition and language , backing results from other studies. Read the original article.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

How to be sensitive to the risks of stereotyping based on recommendations from the few members of the board to the many heterogeneous patients served? I’m Marie Bakitas, and I’m a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and also the associate Director of the center for Palliative and Supportive Care.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Particularly patients, families. Eric 05:30 And Andrew, I remember when I was a med student, I had a patient with a diffuse brain injury in the ICU on a ventilator. People are patients, families are wondering if their loved one is still in there. You know, I’ve been trying to think of metaphors for thinking about this.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Since 2016, HPAI H5N1 has been detected in wild birds in the United States during screening efforts by wildlife authorities. cases in 2024-2025, H5N1 disease in humans had a high mortality rate of up to 50%. H5N1 is currently known to be widespread among wild birds and is thought to be spread by migratory waterfowl.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

The results of this study provide an important and much-needed estimate of the rate of safety actions of Victorian surfers to beach users and the wider community," said Kiera Staley, Research Fellow at La Trobe Business Schools Center for Sport and Social Impact. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106914

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

Tips to beat the heat The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises people to drink a cup of water every 15 to 20 minutes during a heat wave but no more than 48 ounces, or one and a half quarts, per hour. Provided by Northeastern University This story is republished courtesy of Northeastern Global News news.northeastern.edu.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Priority 2 will result in CDRH coordinating and leading a center-wide integrated approach to current and emerging issues as they relate to women. We also heard from Dr. Suzanne Baron, Director of Interventional Cardiology Research at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center. CDRH Town Hall.

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