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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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DASH Diet for Diabetes With Low Sodium Reduces BP in Those With Diabetes

Physician's Weekly

For each diet, adverse events were infrequent. The first three weeks of each diet were when most blood pressure reduction occurred. The effect of sodium reduction appeared stronger than the effect of the DASH4D diet. also from Johns Hopkins University, said in a statement.

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ADA: Orforglipron Reduces Glycated Hemoglobin in Early Type 2 Diabetes

Physician's Weekly

Mild-to-moderate gastrointestinal events were the most common adverse events with orforglipron. From baseline to week 40, the percent change in body weight was −4.5, −5.8, percent with the 3-mg, 12-mg, and 36-mg doses, respectively, and −1.7 percent with placebo.

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FDA Approves Polypill Widaplik for Hypertension

Physician's Weekly

The most common adverse event reported in patients treated with Widaplik was symptomatic low blood pressure. The FDA approval is based on positive results from two international phase 3 trials that compared Widaplik to dual combinations of its component drugs as well as to placebo.

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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Could Be First-Line Therapy for C. Difficile

Physician's Weekly

The groups did not have any significant differences in adverse events. Clinical cure at day 14 and no recurrence with or without additional treatment was observed in 78.4 percent of patients receiving FMT and vancomycin, respectively. “FMT even showed a 5.4

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Wildfire-Induced Changes in Behavior Affect Spread of Airborne Disease

Physician's Weekly

percent in indoor activities were seen in counties in Oregon and Washington, respectively, during the wildfire events; increases of 11 and 16 percent were experienced in major cities like Portland and Seattle. Average increases of 10.8

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit Kennedy once led, is holding an online event this week to mark what it calls the “autism cover-up.” The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to award grants to study other potential factors, such as environmental toxins and diet. NIH employees were recently asked to help Geier, too.