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. Because of the relationship between excess weight and insulin, losing weight can make it easier to control your blood sugar levels. In Connecticut, an estimated 312,000 adults — 10.8%

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The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

is honored for his transformative work, connecting patients with primary care and critical health resources BOSTON, August 15, 2024 – The Physicians Foundation is proud to announce Jubril Oyeyemi, M.D., Jubril Oyeyemi, M.D., The award is named in honor of Richard (Buz) Cooper, M.D., president of The Physicians Foundation.

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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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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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Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. That’s according to two internists who work closely with hospitalized patients who take GLP-1s.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Discover the Best Primary Care in Michigan As an experienced doctor who has worked with thousands of patients across Michigan, I can confidently say that finding the right primary care provider is one of the most important decisions you can make for your health. Men’s Health in Michigan’s Primary Care System Doctor checking on his patient.

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AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This leads to chronic, systemic inflammation in the body. Consider the relationship between parasites and cancer when addressing the true causes of cancer. 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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Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 4, 2022

This could include screening for chronic diseases such as high blood pressure or diabetes, as well as screening for cancer. If you already have a chronic disease- there is still plenty of prevention you can do! For many patients without health insurance, or even those with insurance, this can be a challenge.

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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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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. Then, “Keep your hand up if you frequently refer patients with cancer pain to a psychologist?” Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. That rings true to me.

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Edge Family Medicine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Baseline for Chronic Disease Monitoring If you’re managing chronic conditions such as diabetes or hypertension, physical exams allow us to monitor key health indicators and make necessary adjustments to your treatment plan.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending. 11 , 13 Over time, GPs come to know their patients well. Over time, GPs put their patients into context.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Univariate relationships between COVID-19 vaccination intention and sociodemographic variables are shown in Table 1. Chronic Disease Yes 35 (51.5) 56.1% (n=155) of the participants thought that the COVID-19 vaccine would effectively prevent and control the disease. Chronic Disease Yes 35 (51.5)

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. And I think that’s something that we can really focus on, especially with geriatric patients. And when you tell your patients that, they’re like, what? It takes time.

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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. We just kind of start to amass these handouts and I would give them to the patient. Is it the patient? Eric: Wait, county 911?

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And so the patients who had been admitted there to die, essentially most, if not all, got better and HIV became much more of a chronic condition. It is kind of weird that my first publication was in jama, part of the Care of the Aging Patient series. And I think patients too, don’t always people. And that was.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Secondary Prevention: Early Detection and Intervention Secondary preventive care focuses on early disease detection, often before symptoms appear, when treatment is typically more effective and less costly. These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed.

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