Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 6, 2025

Detecting high blood pressure Hypertension is not an easily recognizable disease. This health condition has no apparent symptoms, so doctors must conduct blood pressure readings to diagnose patients. Doctors encourage patients with hypertension to exercise, stop smoking, limit alcohol intake, and lose weight.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Motivation to overcome the many challenges is needed to meet the critical need for high quality, lifelong management of OUD, just as with any other chronic disease. Intervention: A rural-setting family physician scripted informal videos describing her extensive experience with treating patients with OUD using buprenorphine.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. hours per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1 hours) allocated to preventive care. hours) allocated to preventive care.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 15, 2025

More than 38 million Americans live with diabetes, a chronic disease that can lead to serious complications if not properly managed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends getting 150 minutes of exercise per week , like walking, bicycling or swimming. Looking for an Endocrinologist in Connecticut?

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Diabetes Management Chronic Disease Complication 52

Vida Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As a family physician, I spend a lot of time with patients focusing on how to best take care of themselves to prevent or manage chronic disease. Often when I meet a patient who is taking steps to improve their health, the first thing that they do is make changes to what they are eating.

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Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 21, 2025

Sleep apnea patients can benefit from continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines for optimal breathing. Enjoy better overall health Poor quality sleep is the catalyst for physical health problems, such as the increased risk of chronic disease.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joseph Gaugler is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota, director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of the Gerontologist. Who should get it if anyone? What should we use to screen individuals? Is that right, Soo? Joe 01:15 Yes.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Whether a surrogate or intermediate clinical endpoint (ICE), the endpoint to support accelerated approval is one that can be assessed more rapidly than the ultimate clinical benefit; this is what enables earlier patient access than would be possible while generating the evidence to support a traditional approval, which is typically infeasible.

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health.

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Chronic Disease Screening Transportation Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Is the patient in your descriptor?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This supports the notion that cancer is also a metabolic disease. This energy-production center does so much more than we ever thought imaginable! Poor diets like this have a strong connection to inflammation and chronic disease (12). Metabolic disease and cancer is a major factor.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 2, 2024

That's where urgent care centers come in handy. These facilities offer a wide range of medical services, from treating minor injuries to managing chronic conditions, without the long wait times and hefty price tag of an emergency room. Here are a few factors to consider: Location: Choose a center that's convenient and easy to access.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Des delivered a plenary at this year’s National Palliative Care Research Center’s Foley retreat. That rings true to me. All hands go up. All hands go down. Des: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. From managing chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension to preventive care and health screenings, the clinic is known for providing patient-centered care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

And we have Kate Courtright, who’s at University of Pennsylvania, the PAIR Center. What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. Kate: These are very sick patients. Kate: Sure.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Family health centers are the facilities where the vaccination intention is much more vital, as they carry out the contact and case follow-ups during the pandemic and are the center of vaccination application. There are 44 family health centers, including 158 family physicians and 165 family health workers working in the district.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

All of them offer the same array of services, really emphasizing social determinants of health and preventive services like falls prevention, chronic disease, self-management, caregiver training. I would hope a referral would go to what’s called an ADRC, and it’s called an Aging and Disability Resource Center.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

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Doctors for America

MAY 13, 2025

Last month, the FDA fired dozens of staff at the Center for Tobacco Products. The administration has stated that ending the chronic disease epidemic is central to the goal of “making America healthy again,” but this decision flies in the face of that goal. Smoking cessation is a primary modifiable cause of chronic conditions.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Rates of chronic disease are high, as is obesity. He states, correctly, that PDUFA user fees make up about 75% of the budget for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). In the meantime, this belief was followed for centuries by doctors, to the detriment of countless patients.

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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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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 2, 2020

When it comes to pandemics more broadly, the role of non-pharmaceutical interventions, like mask wearing, social distancing, and stay at home orders, must be recognized for their robust potential to reduce disease spread and burden. Throughout the duration of the pandemic, we have seen the nature of this blame evolve.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We will leave no stone unturned in identifying the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic as part of our mission to Make America Healthy Again,” Hilliard said. We classified these as hospitals/medical centers.

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