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The UK's plan to genetically test all newborns sounds smart—until it creates patients who aren't sick

Medical Xpress

By 2030, every baby born in the UK could have their entire genome sequenced under a new NHS initiative to "predict and prevent illness." This would dramatically expand the current heel-prick test, which checks for nine rare genetic conditions, into a far more extensive screen of hundreds of potential risks.

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How drivers of health screenings led to immediate patient impact and practice sustainability

The Physicians Foundation

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Key Bills in the 2025 Legislative Session AAFP is Watching Closely

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

Ed Oliver, HB 45 would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover any noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test assigned a grade A or B under the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. Senate SB 43 – Patient Price Transparency Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Sen.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

And that’s a good thing to share with an older patient or client that making decisions about your activity. There’s good research showing that activities around environmental sustainability and conservation that’d be good to prescribe to your patients. So how are your patients going to deal with extreme heat and cold?

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless.