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Key Bills in the 2025 Legislative Session AAFP is Watching Closely

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

HB 2 – Vaccine Consent What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep. Under current law, minors aged 14 or older are permitted to consent to vaccines (excluding the Covid Vaccine) for themselves without parental consent. Senate SB 43 – Patient Price Transparency Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Sen.

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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.

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KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Trump’s Bill Reaches the Finish Line

Physician's Weekly

to a key vaccine advisory panel used their first official meeting to cast doubt on a preservative that has been used in flu vaccines for decades — with studies showing no evidence of its harm in low doses. Meanwhile, those appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.