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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

By engaging with lawmakers and key stakeholders, the Academy worked to ensure that the voices of family physicians were heard in discussions that have the potential to impact healthcare delivery and access for communities across the state. What Happened: This legislation has been enacted into law.

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How Gut Health and Digestion Influence Cholesterol Levels

Imperial Center Family Medicine

The liver manufactures new cholesterol molecules and captures excess from circulation for excretion. By regularly incorporating prebiotic foods or supplements into your diet, you effectively help feed and cultivate communities of ideal commensal flora adept at beneficial cholesterol conversions.

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FDA Draft Guidance: Everything You May Want to Know about OMUFA Fees

FDA Law Blog

The facility fee applies to a single manufacturing facility. The guidance explains that a facility counts as a single facility subject to a single facility fee if it is under one management and in one geographic location and address, and is engaged in manufacturing or processing the finished dosage form of an OTC monograph drug product.

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Baby Formula Shortages

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Purchase from well-recognized distributors, grocers, and pharmacies rather than individually sold or auction sites. If not, your pediatrician’s office can work with you to access all community resources. Always mix formula as directed by the manufacturer. If you can afford it, buy formula online until store shortages ease.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

The Department of Energy’s Energy.gov – Enhanced Community Resilience : Clinics powered by renewable energy are better equipped to maintain operations during power outages, ensuring uninterrupted patient care during emergencies. The product manufacturers and vendors will need to be active partners as well.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual. How do you think about this from a clinical perspective when you’re seeing individuals in your office? Everybody ages.

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Key Bills in the 2025 Legislative Session AAFP is Watching Closely

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

The new program has additional eligibility requirements, including that the physician must have practiced outside of a rural community for at least three years before returning to a rural area. Under this program, qualifying hospitals would receive gifts to support their provision of acute care services to rural populations.

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