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How Can Chronic Care Management Help with Chronic Diseases?

Newnan Family Medicine Associates

Life is not always easy for individuals who experience chronic diseases. Long-term illness can cause patients to be irritable and exhausted. Medical conditions such as asthma, hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney diseases, and liver cirrhosis can require extensive treatment and care to prevent fatal.

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What is Integrative Medicine?

Hitchcock Family Medicine

People seek integrative medicine for a variety of different ailments, including asthma, diabetes, chronic pain, nausea, sciatica, and much more. Mental illnesses are also often treated with integrative medicine. You'll want to make sure that you choose an individual or team with the right approach, but they do exist!

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

operating rooms is regulated by the individual states; changing to multi-dose eyedrops will require administrative and legislative advocacy by eye specialists in every state and country. From rising asthma rates to heat-related illnesses, climate change is already harming the most vulnerable among us.

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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. uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals. And some other symptoms that you gotta think about in reflux, chronic cough, hoarseness, or even asthma like symptoms.

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The Most Common Respiratory Diseases Affecting Men’s Health

Dr. Michael Bazel

Asthma Asthma is a chronic condition that causes inflammation and narrowing of the airways, making it difficult to breathe. While asthma is common in both men and women, men are more likely to be exposed to workplace irritants that can trigger attacks, such as dust, fumes, and chemicals. Why Are Men at Risk?

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

We included people with bronchial asthma and many people with paralysis, paraplegia. And we actually found that when she was really terminally ill, she had a cancer that was potentially curable if treated early, it was not. Looked after him about his illnesses, medications, et cetera. What do you think about that?

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

Increased prescribing of certain groups of medications, such as insulin, immunosuppressant drugs, and medications for long-term respiratory illnesses, may hint that these patient groups experienced disproportionate anxiety over medication procurement during the pandemic.