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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

For instance, the UK government’s initiative to install solar panels on National Health Service sites is projected to save each site up to £45,000 annually, amounting to approximately £13 million in total savings per year. From rising asthma rates to heat-related illnesses, climate change is already harming the most vulnerable among us.

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

Permanente Medicine

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. I know for a fact that the government or legislators looked to us in Permanente. Being a member for a long time has real health benefits.

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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment

Medical Xpress

In a study published in Nature Communications , led by researchers at National Taiwan University (NTU) and National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), scientists used the deepest-ever two-photon calcium imaging in awake mice to directly observe how individual SCN neurons respond to light. Your feedback is important to us.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization.

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Long-lasting HIV prevention shot headed toward approval

Medical Xpress

The company is working with governments and health groups in the U.K. However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages. But Gilead says the shot should help expand the overall number of people using PrEP in both the U.S. and abroad. © 2025 HealthDay. Your feedback is important to us.