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Breaking Barriers: Perspectives on Clinical Trial Participation Among Older Hispanic/Latino Adults of Mexican Origin [Clinical trial]

Annals of Family Medicine

Participants with prior research experience expressed greater trust in their health care providers than their counterparts. Participants emphasized the role of family support and their reliance on adult children for decision-making and assistance with transportation and interpretation.

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Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

A recent review of national diabetes treatment guidelines recommended adjustments to DM to reduce financial strain (eg, selecting lower cost medications), as well as directly intervening in response to an identified social need (eg, referral to a community-based service).

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Strategies to Improve Diversity in Lymphoma Trials

Physician's Weekly

Strategies to improve minority enrollment include multidisciplinary tumor boards to identify eligible patients, patient navigators to guide participants, community engagement, modernized eligibility criteria, culturally relevant education, and reduced participation burdens. The FDA mandates diversity plans in trial design.

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Integrated care for adults with complex needs: opportunities of case management in primary care to improve equity [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Results: The CMP encouraged the case managers and other healthcare providers to better understand people’s social needs by evaluating their whole situation more broadly. However, partnerships between primary care clinics and community-based organizations would deserve consideration in further research.

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Health professionals speak out against the new nuclear arms race

Common Sense Family Doctor

Health professionals who survive a nuclear explosion ( 90% of those in Hiroshima were killed instantly ) would likely face a catastrophic loss of communications, impassable transportation routes, and “ risk their lives amid destroyed infrastructure, dangerous radioactivity, and limited healthcare facilities and supplies.”

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Nutrition On A Budget: Eating Healthy With Local, Seasonal Produce

Center for Family Medicine

Furthermore, some communities are considered food deserts , with limited access to institutions with healthy options. Even when there are opportunities to purchase fresh food, transportation can be limited. Ultra-processed foods are formulated to be easier to prepare, last longer, and provide more dopamine spikes.

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

And I always say that I do not envy my emergency medicine colleagues, particularly those practicing in community settings. And so we routinely do outreach with our community providers. There’s an education series, a lecture series, and I had the opportunity to give a talk on this very topic to those providers.

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