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Winning the Battle Against Obesity – Digital Health Visions

The Medical Futurist

He provides Kate with a free, evidence-based app called MealMate, designed to assist in maintaining a healthy diet. The app also offers a community feature, where Kate can join groups with similar goals. Instead, Kate downloads a report from her app and sensor, compiling all the data on her diet, activity, and achievements.

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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

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. There are also free materials available from the AAP that a clinician can download to help them with implementation.

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Episode 181: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 9 – Moving Towards Antiracism in Medical Education

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Understand the “minority tax” that minoritized trainees and faculty experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion reform efforts; identify models to properly compensate individuals for their time and expertise. Does the institution involve community members in training? Essien, MD, MPH; Rohan Khazanchi, MPH; LaShyra Nolen; Naomi F.

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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. Behavior Change Happens in the Exam Room Unlike government agencies or corporations, healthcare professionals speak directly to individuals in a trusted, one-on-one setting. of total U.S.

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Episode 282: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples

The Clinical Problem Solvers

During this episode, we hear from Dr. Nav Persaud, a staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St. The dehumanization of individuals of color at the margins of society by the healthcare system is not simply a thing of the past, and is certainly a persistent phenomenon.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. Maybe that’s where the individualizing it, the person that’s front of me.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Moreover, center patients not only in discussions about individual decision-making but in constructing and drawing meaning from the research. J Epidemiol Community Health. Prioritizing Equity in a Time of Scarcity: The COVID-19 Pandemic. J Gen Intern Med. 2020;35(9):2760-2762. doi:10.1007/s11606-020-05976-y Krieger N.

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