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Development of a Multidisciplinary Clinic for the Treatment of Obesity in a Canadian University Family Medicine Group (U-FMG) [Obesity, exercise and nutrition]

Annals of Family Medicine

of Canadians were at greater risk of chronic diseases due to their BMI, including type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, and hypertension. Population Studied Patients with obesity enrolled in the Méta-Santé clinic. Results The clinic has 41 current patients, and 59 have completed their participation.

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Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

Physician's Weekly

Cost-sharing and education may improve access to GLP-1 therapies for obesity, but systemic barriers remain, requiring broader policy and clinical reforms. Healthcare Professionals Among healthcare professionals, potential barriers include lack of education, safety concerns, and obesity stigma/weight bias.

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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

It tells your office colleagues and patients that your healthcare practice or clinic is committed to forging a healthier work space and community. Earth Day is an opportunity for medical professionals to lead the conversation on how sustainability directly affects health. The healthcare sector contributes 8.5%

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues? So there is this meaningful difference between appropriate reactions to illness and clinically significant symptoms of mental health problems. It’s high, it’s too high.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. These are patients who had a pre-existing chronic disease, very broadly defined. I’m just stunned even writing that!