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Cough Monitoring Solutions: The Current Digital Health Landscape

The Medical Futurist

We didn’t need technologies to be able to differentiate between patients based on coughs, as primary care physicians have been doing that for centuries. These could even make cough monitoring as common as step tracking to inform individual patients and provide doctors with deeper health insights.

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Clinician Insights Reveal Fatigue Care Gaps

Physician's Weekly

The following is a summary of “Physicians’ experiences of assessing and supporting fatigued patients in primary care: a focus group study,” published in the June 2025 issue of BMC Primary Care by Samuelsson et al.

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What is primary care? Part 1

Noreta Family Medicine

What is primary care? Part 1 How do I choose a primary care physician? Here are some questions to consider along with a few tips for finding a primary care doctor: 1) How easy is it to get in touch with your doctor and their office? Choosing a doctor can be difficult! 2) Who do your friends go to?

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

In an article for Obesity , researchers investigated how to better design lifestyle-based weight loss programs for older adults in order to address muscle and bone health concerns. First, to meet protein needs, patients can be counseled to include 30 grams of high-quality protein sources at each meal.

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Tips to Help your New Year’s Resolutions Stick in 2025

Noreta Family Medicine

This is the single biggest tip I give to my patients. If you are in the Columbia, SC area and in need of a new primary care physician, Noreta Family Medicine is accepting new patients! We are a Direct Primary Care (DPC) office. If you want to change your diet: Plan ahead. Read My Latest News!

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The US Healthcare System vs…….South Park ?!?!

Noreta Family Medicine

Insert a different medical problem and a different medicine, and this situation repeats itself daily in a primary care office. For instance, in May, I prescribed a diabetic medicine for a patient. The cost was also above $1000 so the patient left the pharmacy empty handed. My patients have a say in their care.