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MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities Remain in Play

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

These include health care, jobs and labor, K-12 education, energy, higher education, taxes, transportation and bonding. Sticking points remaining include reinsurance, paid family and medical leave and whether undocumented residents can qualify for MinnesotaCare. We are hopeful they will be included in a final agreement.

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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

On October 6, 2017, a van loaded with medical supplies departed from the Health Center, bound for the local airport. Relevant educational resources should be disseminated, such as “A Guide for Families Affected by Crisis and Displacement” by Sesame Workshop , available in multiple languages.

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Nutrition and dietary guidelines: stirring the (policy) pot

The Health Policy Exchange

Just as medical students and residents must be taught to become antismoking advocates, they need to be taught how to advocate for healthier food environments as part of their role as future physician-citizens. and MyPlate.

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An Additional Physician from Leading Sarasota Cardiology Practice to Now Offer the Hybrid Choice™ Concierge Program from Concierge Choice Physicians

Concierge Choice Physicians

The physician continues to accept insurance and government programs, as before. They receive enhanced support and service from staff members, and medical advocacy and coordination with other health providers the patient may see. The patient decides what’s right for them.

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Health professionals speak out against the new nuclear arms race

Common Sense Family Doctor

However, as stated plainly in a recent editorial published in more than 120 medical journals worldwide , “This does not mean humanity is any safer.” After peaking at more than 70,000 in 1986, the absolute number of weapons gradually declined from the implementation of various arms control treaties to 12,331 today.

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Article urges doctors to tell UK government to raise legal at-home drinking age from five years old

Medical Xpress

Children's doctors in the UK need to take a much stronger and more visible role in helping to ward off future alcohol problems by, among other things, campaigning to raise the legal at-home drinking age for kids from 5, argues an independent health education lecturer in a personal viewpoint, published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. (..)

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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

McDonald shared more about a pilot model announced last year that would create a pathway for exceptionally qualified international medical graduates (IMGs) successfully completing ACGME-accredited subspecialty fellowship to become Board eligible in Internal Medicine and subspecialties. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.