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The MAHA Assessment’s Implications: Drugs (Part One)

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The Strategy must address appropriately restructuring the Federal Governments response to the childhood chronic disease crisis, including by ending Federal practices that exacerbate the health crisis or unsuccessfully attempt to address it, and by adding powerful new solutions that will end childhood chronic disease.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

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GPs Improve Chronic Disease Management We live in a world of aging populations, with rising chronic diseases, multimorbidity, and polypharmacy. All of that is especially important for disadvantaged individuals with more risk factors, more chronic diseases, more medications, and lower health literacy.

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Evidence v. Belief: What a Kennedy Appointment Could Mean to FDA and Public Health

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Rates of chronic disease are high, as is obesity. Referencing an interview with Kennedy from 2023, the Post says that his views on health “were a head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines.” Kennedy’s tag line is that he and Trump will “Make America Healthy Again.”