The Health Policy Exchange

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

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?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

This starts with recognition that obesity is a chronic disease. When a child has risk factors but has not developed the disease, we must continue to provide preventive care and support for the family and appropriately match intensity and dose of the intervention. What modifications would you recommend to clinicians?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 20, 2025

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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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 22, 2025

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.

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