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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

mHealth applications can complement and expand care provided at traditional face-to-face visits, and exploring their untapped potential to improve health in the U.S. Smartphone apps now include a variety of self-management tools for weight loss, physical activity, and chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.

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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS: Childhood obesity is associated with physical and psychosocial comorbidities that negatively affect the child’s health and quality of life. Eneli spoke with Physician’s Weekly ( PW ) about these prevention programs and ways that pediatricians can help reduce weight gain in early childhood. It really does take a village.

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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment

Medical Xpress

This achievement is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in life science, physics, and computer science. This region governs essential behaviors like the circadian clock, sleep, energy balance , and feeding. The content is provided for information purposes only.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

He was a terrible diabetic. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government. And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. So we actually included that in our survey.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

And then maybe KN95s, FFP2s and KF94s, if you wear them, at least in physical science studies, if you’re inside in a crowded where Warrior stadium or something, that should provide you some self protection. And their death rate was so high during Omicron because they had distrust to the vaccine and distrust to the government.