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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

Behavior Change Happens in the Exam Room Unlike government agencies or corporations, healthcare professionals speak directly to individuals in a trusted, one-on-one setting. Relate sustainability topics to chronic disease prevention—air pollution and asthma, heat exposure and cardiovascular risks, food systems and metabolic health.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

Organizations such as EyeSustain and My Green Doctor are educating clinicians and practice managers on ways to reduce medical waste and are promoting research on this topic. From rising asthma rates to heat-related illnesses, climate change is already harming the most vulnerable among us. The use of medications in U.S.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about. And a while ago, there were fires and what we were able to do with our databases was really to identify those at highest risk for an asthma exacerbation under these circumstances.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

Children with respiratory conditions and chronic lung disease like asthma are more prone to GERD as well. And some other symptoms that you gotta think about in reflux, chronic cough, hoarseness, or even asthma like symptoms. Prematurity and congenital conditions like esophageal atresia also obviously increase the risk.

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Preemies receive sucrose for pain relief—new research shows it doesn't stop long-term impacts on development

Medical Xpress

Routine assessment of pain and parent education videos are useful initiatives to encourage pain management. However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages. No national guidelines for best practice exist. Infant pain should be assessed, but international data suggest this isnt always the case.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

In Europe, countries with stronger primary care had less unnecessary hospitalizations, especially concerning Asthma, COPD, and diabetes. All of that is especially important for disadvantaged individuals with more risk factors, more chronic diseases, more medications, and lower health literacy. of healthcare costs in the EU 2018.

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Surfers play crucial role in beach safety according to study

Medical Xpress

Although they make a vital contribution to saving lives, bystander rescues often expose untrained individuals to hazardous conditions without the training and equipment available to professionals. This research can inform future beach safety strategies and educational initiatives." Sometimes, bystanders become victims themselves.