Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 22, 2025

Every year in Connecticut, about 17,000 adults are diagnosed with diabetes, a serious chronic condition. There are many types of diabetes — including type 1, type 2 and gestational — and many factors that affect how the condition changes over time. The doctor will ask questions about your diabetes.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Understanding Preventive Health Services: The Foundation of Wellness Preventive health services encompass medical care specifically designed to prevent illnesses, detect conditions early, and promote overall wellness. These interventions focus on keeping people healthy and addressing risk factors before any symptoms appear.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) impacts 35 million Americans. family medicine, general internal medicine, endocrinology) at an urban academic medical center in the Midwest. A considerable body of research indicates higher prevalence among racial/ethnic minorities and low-income adults. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field. Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center and the University of Iowa used CRISPR to repair a genetic mutation responsible for retinitis pigmentosa in induced pluripotent stem cells derived from a patient with the disease.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 9, 2023

The latest clinical practice guideline from the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization offers advice for treating patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 26, 2025

Being told you have pre-diabetes can feel overwhelming, but there’s good news: food is one of the most powerful tools you can use to manage your blood sugar. In this post, I’ll explain what pre-diabetes really means and how eating balanced meals can support your body in managing blood sugar more effectively. What is Pre-Diabetes?

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The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

Founder and CEO of Cherry Hill Free Clinic (CHFC), Chief Medical Officer at Camden Coalition and Medical Director for Community Health at Virtua Health, as the recipient of the Dr. Buz Cooper Award for Addressing Drivers of Health. His dedication to this cause should serve as an inspiration to the entire medical community.”

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

However, these traditional practices have been interrupted by Western food systems, which has led to disproportionate rates of type 2 diabetes (T2D) among AI/AN communities. American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) have traditional food and nutrition practices that support holistic health.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Primary care physicians can also provide health promotion education or counseling to help patients care for themselves. This way, you can get the treatment and medication you need faster. Yearly check-ups are not only for people with a medical history. Primary doctors are the first stop for medical care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Goldilocks zone).

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 19, 2020

He then went back to Houston for medical school at the University of Texas at Houston (McGovern) Medical School. He completed medical school at UT Southwestern and is excited to pursue a career in academic general internal medicine. Following completion of his training, he will return to Houston to be an academic hospitalist.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is associated with improved health outcomes for patients with diabetes. Primary care practices, however, have been slow to adopt the technology. Researchers used a web-based survey to assess CGM prescribing behaviors and resource needs of U.S. primary care clinicians.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 12, 2022

His past medical history is significant for hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Final PR: “A middle-age male with HTN, diabetes, and recent travel to Brazil presenting with acute headache, myalgia, fever, and rash and found to have leukopenia, lymphopenia, and thrombocytopenia. One day later the patient also develops a rash.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Then I went to medical school and I thought, “Well, should I go into psych? A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

I’d been working with persons who had diabetes and also caregivers and so forth, trying to go at the direction and realize as I look more and more at hearing loss, that it was totally unrecognized in clinical practice. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Christine Twining, MD, Chair, ABIM Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board The Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on April 1, 2025. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

In reality, GLP-1 receptor agonists have been available for many years for the treatment of type 2 diabetes (Victoza, Trulicity, etc) and for weight loss (Saxenda), while tirzepatide is new in the last few years. I am acutely aware of the harmful effects of weight bias and stigma in medical care and society at large.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Pregnant with her second child, she schleps a backpack instead of a traditional black bag to carry a laptop and essential medical supplies — stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, and pulse oximeter. Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Today, about 18% of the U.S.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

MARCH 16, 2022

200-400 AD) Metrodora, a Greek female physician, wrote On the Diseases and Cures of Women, the oldest medical text known to be written by a woman. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) British-born Elizabeth Blackwell is best known as the first woman to earn an medical degree (MD) in the US. Metrodora (c.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy” (GDMT) and what might be considered runaway polypharmacy? He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. Noelle Marie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 00:57 Hi, everyone.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Nate Chin, who is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, where he is medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease research center and runs a large study in Wisconsin called the RAP Study studying Alzheimer’s Disease. Welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Sharon. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Alex: And we are delighted to welcome Sharon Brangman, who is a geriatrician and chair of the Department of Geriatrics at Upstate Medical University. It can influence education systems. Then, of course, that falls into medical rules. No need for me to get rid of that pesky J in my name. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast Sharon.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out. He had a very aggressive lymphoma, highly aggressive, with a lot of different medical conditions. Mazie: That’s a really nuanced question. William: 80%.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

Routine assessment of pain and parent education videos are useful initiatives to encourage pain management. The information you enter will appear in your e-mail message and is not retained by Medical Xpress in any form. No national guidelines for best practice exist. Whats more, pain isnt always managed. What are the consequences?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We have two new FDA-approved medications that reduce that amyloid buildup and modestly slow down the progression of the disease. He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. And I gotta manage their blood pressure and their diabetes meds.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. You no longer need to review all medical records or repeat the whole medical and personal history. Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. Over time, more trust develops.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. He was a terrible diabetic. Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And I graduated from medical school in the early 80s. And I was working at the time at Yale in New Haven, and I became medical director of a facility which was initially created in New Haven as a hospice like facility for people with HIV, which is in late 1995 and in 1996 when the Protease inhibitors came along. Meredith 09:33 Yes.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. It was like talking about smoking cessation.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

Please consider getting involved here in Maine - the Maine Medical Association & the Maine Osteopathic Association have a joint Legislative Committee that meets weekly during the session (usually January - May). We advocated for the Resident Education Deferred Interest (REDI) Act (HR 1202 / S794). Get Involved!

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