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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

Smartphone apps now include a variety of self-management tools for weight loss, physical activity, and chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Should state and local governments provide direct grants or tax relief to promising startups? Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS, discusses early intervention in childhood obesity to reduce long‑term risk and supporting families with tailored, accessible care. Past evidence suggests StEP is highly effective for reducing childhood obesity , though the benefits are better sustained when families attend most or all StEP sessions.

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On chronic disease prevention, RFK Jr.'s actions speak louder than words

Common Sense Family Doctor

s agenda, he says, is chronic disease prevention. He wants Americans to eat fewer ultra-processed foods ; to decline long-established childhood vaccines against diseases like the measles, which we never see anymore ; and to drink public water supplies without fluoride, apparently as a boon to the dental profession. Kennedy, Jr.'s

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Can food policy changes make America healthy again?

Common Sense Family Doctor

And of course, many thousands of people - mostly young children - died every year from infectious diseases like smallpox, polio, and measles, which have been eradicated or are completely preventable by vaccines that RFK Jr. claims are worse than the diseases. government has always had competing interests in food policy.