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Vested Interests. Influence Muscle. At RFK Jr.’s HHS, It’s Not Pharma. It’s Wellness.

Physician's Weekly

On his way to an Ultimate Fighting Championship event, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. ” Unlike any other previous administration, President Donald Trump’s administration has elevated anti-vaccine and wellness leaders to positions at HHS from which they can steer federal policy. Kennedy Jr.

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What Lifestyle Medicine Gets Wrong: You’re Not Fully in Control

Vida Family Medicine

Manage stress. I’m Dr. Rebecca Berens, family physician and founder of Vida Family Medicine. They eat nutritious foods, exercise regularly, manage stress, and try to sleep well. Schedule a visit with Vida Family Medicine to get judgment-free support for your health journey. We’ve all heard the advice: Eat healthy.

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Communication

Mere Mortal MD

When he expressed exasperation yesterday over having to know all the different types of hepatitis viruses and vaccines, I asked “Why are you having to learn about bloodborne pathogens? I remember once having a patient with severe aphasia who did all the financial management for her household.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Sometime after the age of 50, we could identify an event where the folks who were first homeless before 50, there wasn’t a clear crisis that precipitated it. Folks who were first homeless after 50, there was an event, and usually those events could be described in one of four categories. Maybe vaccines, maybe.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. So I lived with a family there.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

GeriPal

Heather: I’m requesting the song Don’t You Forget About Me, which is one of the things that I think matters most to patients and families living with Alzheimer’s disease. Lon: Let me add to that with a bit of a disclosure, and that is we are NIA funded to develop amyloid vaccines, and I do that and I endorse that.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Common variants associated with general and MMR vaccine-related febrile seizures. Family history of febrile seizures. Vaccines don’t cause autism, but they might cause febrile seizures. The absolute risk is small, and genetic susceptibility likely plays a role in seizures after vaccines. In: StatPearls [Internet].

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