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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Given practical constraints in many healthcare settings, who are the minimum essential team members for multidisciplinary management of weight loss in older adults? How might primary care physicians coordinate this care in settings with limited specialist access?

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Degree of Weight Loss Affects Tirzepatide-Linked Cardiometabolic Risk Improvement

Physician's Weekly

Bruno Linetzky, M.D., The researchers found that participants who lost at least 35 percent of their body weight from baseline to week 72 had mean changes of up to –14.2 mm Hg for systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively, –32.4 cm for waist circumference, –59.7 percentage point for hemoglobin A1c.

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NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We Allison also noted that the community has also been pushing for an emergency declaration that would give residents access to special Medicare benefits to help pay for medical care tied to chemical exposure, CNN said.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. And then John, I’d love to hear from you starting off, you’re a palliative care doc, right? This is what I saw and heard.

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