Integrated Care News by CFHA

JUNE 24, 2025

Behavioral health (BH) clinicians who provide clinical supervision often lack formal training for primary care settings, and there is little formal support in their practice settings, which can lead to isolation. There is not yet a uniform approach to providing professional development in primary care supervision. In one of my latest publications in The Clinical Teacher , I share findings from our work that aims to improve that process, by enhancing training and connection among behavioral healt

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KevinMD

JUNE 24, 2025

An excerpt from The Healthy Kidney Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Manage Hypertension, Control Stress, and Prevent Renal Failure, Kidney Disease, and More. A good friend and neighbor of mine is a kidney transplant survivor, and I wanted to document her thoughts on different parts of her journey. She is currently a married, African American Read more… How a family’s strength led to a successful kidney transplant originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

JUNE 24, 2025

Coaching in academic medicine can feel a little abstract until you’re in it. Whether you're a resident navigating clinical load or a faculty physician juggling leadership and personal well-being, coaching can provide a powerful space for reflection, clarity, and growth. If you’ve ever wondered, “Would I even know what to talk about in a coaching session?

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KevinMD

JUNE 24, 2025

Sleep is not a luxury — it’s a fundamental pillar of health on par with diet and exercise. As we enter a new era of sleep, people are more aware than ever before of how rest impacts their overall health. We are at an inflection point where sleep is increasingly recognized as essential to preventative Read more… Why sleep is the missing pillar in modern health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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NPR Health

JUNE 24, 2025

In recent years, health insurers ramped up the practice of requiring doctors to get their approval before tests and procedures. On Monday, health leaders announced voluntary reforms from insurers.

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KevinMD

JUNE 24, 2025

As a health care professional, I’ve often observed how one critical aspect of medication safety and efficacy gets overlooked: food-drug interactions. Every day, we prescribe and dispense powerful medications — but what patients eat alongside those medications can completely alter their effects. This isn’t just a pharmacy concern. It’s a multidisciplinary issue that deserves greater Read more… The food-drug interaction risks your doctor may be missing originally appeared in Kevi

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Recent headlines on chronic kidney disease (CKD) focus on disease biomarkers, associated side effects, and quality of life. Physician’s Weekly has compiled a list of new CKD research highlighting these topics. Link Between BAR & Prognosis High blood urea nitrogen to albumin ratio (BAR) values in patients with CKD are linked to greater mortality, indicating its potential value as a prognostic indicator.

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NPR Health

JUNE 24, 2025

The social media platform TikTok recently banned a hashtag called #SkinnyTok after European regulators warned it was promoting extreme weight loss. But eliminating this kind of content is not easy.

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KevinMD

JUNE 24, 2025

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Historian and ethicist Nigel Cameron discusses his article, “How DrKoop.com rose and fell: the untold story behind the Surgeon General’s startup.” The conversation chronicles the dramatic history of the iconic dot-com era company, from its modest beginnings as a personal medical Read more… When credibility is your only asset: the cautionary tale of DrKoop.com [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinM

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

As rates of MASLD, which is linked to obesity and diabetes, rise, new therapies have emerged, but better diagnostic and monitoring strategies are needed. “[Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)] closely relates to obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, with which it shares many pathogenetic features” researchers wrote in Metabolism.

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KevinMD

JUNE 24, 2025

In recent years, an alarming trend has emerged within the health care system, one that is eroding the very backbone of medical care delivery: the physician. What once were rules and regulations designed to protect and elevate the standard of medical care are increasingly being exploited by medical authorities as a tool to extort, reprimand, Read more… The weaponization of rules: How regulatory overreach puts physicians and health care at risk originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket. Her doctor and several pharmacies turned her down because she was below the recommended age at the time, which was 60.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 24, 2025

Unlock effective strategic planning with essential pre-work steps, including SWOT analysis and stakeholder engagement, to ensure your practice's success.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Research shows that most children presenting to the emergency department with an acute allergic reaction requiring epinephrine can probably be safely discharged after 2 hours. Most children presenting to the emergency department (ED) with an acute allergic reaction requiring epinephrine can probably be safely discharged after 2 hours of observation, and a 4-hour period may be adequate for children with cardiovascular involvement who appear well, according to a study published in The Lancet Child

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 24, 2025

[link] Maddy presents a case of atraumatic rhabdomyolysis to Youssef, Andrew, and Noah. To join us live on Virtual Morning Report (VMR), sign up HERE.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A biomarker panel can improve prediction of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression in children, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Jason H. Greenberg, M.D., from the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues prospectively enrolled children aged 6 months to 16 years with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of 30 to 90 mL/min/1.73 m 2.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 24, 2025

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Physician’s Weekly has compiled a list of current research in ophthalmology. Topics covered include glaucoma, ophthalmology procedures, and more. Cyclosporin Improves Dry Eye A cyclosporin A emulsion improved ocular surface disease index, average noninvasive tear break-up time, and lipid layer thickness after cataract surgery. To read more, click here.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. While many patients are familiar with terms like “family doctor” or “primary care,” the field of internal medicine often raises questions: What exactly does an internist do?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Both hand cooling and hand compression reduced the incidence of grade 2 or higher chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in patients with breast cancer. A randomized clinical trial that tested hand cooling and hand compression in patients receiving taxane-based chemotherapy for primary breast cancer found that both interventions significantly decreased the incidence of grade 2 or higher chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, according to findings published in JAMA Oncology.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Morie A. Gertz, MD, MACP, Chair, ABIM Hematology Board The Hematology Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of ABIM policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on May 2, 2025. A representative from the American Society of Hematology (ASH) joined for a portion of the meeting*. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Recent research showed that ICU statin therapy was associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis. Statin use is associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis, according to a study published online in Frontiers in Immunology. “Given the wide use of statins for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, it is likely that their use in this population has also conferred benefits in combat

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NPR Health - Shots

JUNE 24, 2025

Doctors have become increasingly supportive of self-managed abortion with pills, an abortion method that's become more common since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Adding genetic testing to clinical familial hypercholesterolemia screening improves risk assessment, prognosis and helps to guide targeted therapy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that about 1 in 10 American adults have hypercholesterolemia , also known as high cholesterol. These individuals have total cholesterol counts exceeding 240 mg/dL, which increases their risk of heart disease.

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Dr Chatterjee

JUNE 24, 2025

Our posture, our breath, the way our feet strike the ground – all tell the story of how we move through life. But how often do we pay attention to this story - or even rewrite it?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Cold drink heart—cold food- or drink-induced paroxysmal AF—is poorly understood, yet has significant implications for AF prevention, according to research. Cold drink heart (CDH) describes paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) or flutter triggered within seconds or minutes of ingesting cold food or beverages. According to a recent study published in the J ournal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology , CDH remains poorly understood, yet has significant implications for AF prevention, and avoidance st

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NPR Health

JUNE 24, 2025

Jessica Chaikof says research into gene therapies could someday save her eyesight. But she worries cuts to federal research funding could mean that therapy won't be ready in time.

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JUNE 24, 2025

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Dupixent (dupilumab) for the treatment of adult patients with bullous pemphigoid. The approval is based on results from the pivotal ADEPT phase 2/3 study. Patients with moderate-to-severe bullous pemphigoid were randomly assigned to receive Dupixent 300 mg (53 individuals) or placebo (53 individuals) added to standard-of-care oral corticosteroids.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Researchers recently discovered that, in pulmonary diseases, M. abscessus suppresses immune responses during coinfection with P. aeruginosa. Mycobacterium abscessus significantly suppresses host immune responses during coinfection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa , exacerbating pulmonary disease outcomes, according to findings published in Virulence. “The incidence of infection by nontuberculous mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium abscessus , is increasing in patients with cystic fibrosis and other ch

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening women of reproductive age for intimate partner violence (IPV). These findings form the basis of a final recommendation statement published online June 24 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Cynthia Feltner, M.D., M.P.H., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues reviewed the evidence on screening and interventions for IPV and caregiver a

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Early-onset neonatal sepsis is associated with increased likelihood autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), although the association with ADHD is attenuated in sibling-matched analyses, according to a study published online June 18 in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Vertical and horizontal relative peripheral refraction (RPR) are associated with faster axial length progression and higher risk of incident myopia, according to a study published online June 16 in the American Journal of Ophthalmology. Sander C.M. Kneepkens, M.D., from the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and colleagues used subject-specific ray tracing with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine the relationship b

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dozens of people in northeastern England have developed a rare and dangerous illness after receiving Botox injections, according to health officials in the U.K. At least 28 people have reported symptoms of botulism, a potentially deadly illness that attacks the nervous system, after undergoing cosmetic procedures, the U.K.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Self-esteem scores increase after metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS), with greater improvement in scores for those with higher postoperative weight loss, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, held from June 15 to 19 in Washington, D.C.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Researchers found that lower lean muscle mass and higher intermuscular adipose tissue acted as imaging-visible markers that stratify risk for chronic back pain. Lower lean muscle mass (LMM) and higher intermuscular adipose tissue (InterMAT) are independently associated with risk for chronic back pain (CBP), CBP symptom burden, and musculoskeletal comorbidities, according to a study published online in The Lancet Regional Health Europe.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — U.S. drug overdose deaths (DODs) started declining in 2023, with a faster decline for opioid-related versus stimulant-related DOD rates, according to a study published online June 12 in JAMA Network Open. Lori Ann Post, Ph.D., from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues conducted a repeated cross-sectional study of DOD rates from January 2015 to October 2024 to identify when U.S.

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JUNE 24, 2025

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The brain age gap (BAG) plays a role in mediating the influence of cognitive impairment risk factors on cognitive function, especially among individuals with high cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) burden, according to a study published online June 18 in Neurology. Wei Ying Tan, from the National University of Singapore and National University Health System, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study to examine the influence of cognitive impairme

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