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A Comprehensive Approach to the Opioid Crisis in Caldwell County, North Carolina [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

We invited all of the people who are touched by the opioid crisis (addicts, family members of addicts, the faith based community, law enforcement, public health officials, county commissioners, EMS personnel, physicians, hospital representatives, the legal community, etc.) County governments are struggling to manage the opioid crisis.

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. - Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Much has changed in the past six years since our last Health Policy Journal Club at Georgetown. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Family Medicine Initiative

Cardiovascular Events The SELECT trial 1 randomized 17,604 patients with preexisting CVD and overweight/obesity. Relative risk for cardiovascular events was reduced by 19% (RRR), while the absolute risk was reduced by 1.5% 5 In March 2024, Novo Nordisk announced that 24% less CKD-related events occurred in the intervention group.

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COVID-19 Surge in Thailand: What It Means for Event Planners & Corporate Health Programs

InHouse Physicians

COVID Cases Spike in Thailand — Here's Why It Matters Globally Thailand has reported a significant surge in COVID-19 cases , with over 8,400 patients seeking hospital treatment between April 27 and May 3. The highest concentrations were in Bangkok, Chonburi, and Nonthaburi — regions known for both local tourism and international events.

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Medicine is a Love that Finds Us

A Country Doctor Writes

I remember being in the hospital and having stomach X-rays and I have also been told we had a family doctor who made house calls. During that time I learned that man is more than his digestive system and the most important events in life often happen in the seemingly uninteresting space where blood flows, boils burst and wounds heal.”

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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

Though severe weather events like this used to feel like a ‘once in a decade’ tragedy, they are, statistically speaking, becoming more and more common. Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? You have all seen it over the past week. It happens.

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Q&A: Can Digital Inhalers Predict Exacerbations of COPD?

Physician's Weekly

Exacerbations often result in hospitalizations or long-term lung function decline, and existing remote monitoring tools fall short in capturing physiologic changes specific to lung function. PW: What inspired your study? Did your team design the inhaler or use an existing device? What was your study design?