Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As the 2025 legislative session swings into full gear, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has set its sights on a cadre of pivotal bills set to shape the healthcare landscape for years to come. HB 2 – Vaccine Consent What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

They argue that the current guidelines, which prioritize immunocompromised people and unvaccinated older people on the same level, should be re-done to prioritize the immunocompromised first, and additionally move up older vaccinated individuals or vaccinated persons with comorbidities. It’s shaming on vaccinated people.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. Statistical significance level was accepted as p<0.05.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

MARCH 11, 2022

From the American Academy of Pediatrics : New COVID-19 guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlines when communities and families should wear face masks. Even in areas where mask guidelines are now eased, we realize some families may find it difficult to decide what’s best for everyone.

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Mere Mortal MD

MARCH 22, 2025

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? You’re not going to work in a hospital.” Otherwise, there are significant consequences. Or, who is their back up decision maker?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

THURSDAY, June 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A newly approved shot could soon help protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the top cause of hospitalization in U.S. In a clinical trial, Enflonsia cut RSV-related hospital stays in infants by more than 84% compared to a placebo. The new members include some vaccine critics.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

Pat Connolly & Cortney Linville who attended the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit in Washington May 19-21. Here's what Dr. Connolly had to say: "I was pleased and privileged to attend the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit again last month and represent our state.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital?

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

His 4-year-old son was at risk because he had received only the first of the vaccine’s two doses. So, in mid-March, he took his family to a primary care clinic at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. His twin daughters, who had already had their measles vaccinations, got other immunizations. Kennedy Jr.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. As a measles outbreak in West Texas approaches 100 cases and the national percentage of kindergarten-age children who have received measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has fallen below 93% , vaccine conspiracy theory amplifier Robert F.

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Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 18, 2022

Here are a few examples of preventive care that our doctors can provide to benefit us: Vaccinations : Vaccinations are one of the most effective forms of preventive care. The HPV vaccine is still relatively new and has not yet eliminated this virus, but it is leading to a drastic decrease in certain types of cancer.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine meeting today claimed that a vaccine preservative could cause long-term brain effects — but the study it cited doesn’t appear to exist. The slide said the research showed that thimerosal, a vaccine preservative, caused lasting brain changes in rats, CNN reported.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our conversation covers: The current state of COVID Evidence for COVID boosters, who should get them, and preferences between Novavax and mRNA vaccines COVID treatments like Molnupiravir and Paxlovid Differences in COVID impact on nursing home residents and those with serious illnesses We wrap up with a “magic wand” question. The impact on.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Lucky, Jim and many others like him were willing to come on to our podcast those first several months of the pandemic and share their experiences and lessons learned caring for COVID positive patients and their family members. . In fact, no one in this hospital died that was not on comfort care. Pretty … Just all things, right?

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . It could be terrible there.

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PEMBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Well, families state that they have concerns about the preservative in the injection, maybe that it could cause autism. They perceive that the intramuscular vitamin k is a vaccine. Home delivered infants don’t have access to immediate vitamin k prophylaxis at the same rates that hospitalized infants do. It doesn’t.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , we explore pertussis, also known as whooping cough – a disease that remains a public health challenge despite widespread vaccination efforts. Coverage with Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2023–24 School Year.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

These raids, detentions, and family separations are both morally reprehensible and public health catastrophes. Children and families are experiencing severe psychological distress, toxic stress, and long-term harm to physical and mental health due to forced separations and the constant threat of deportation.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says she supports science, vaccines and public health programs — but she dodged key questions about recent cuts to the agency during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Susan Monarez , 50, told senators she values “evidence-based decision-making” and believes “vaccines save lives.”

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 3, 2025

Also included was the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act , which requires hospitals that take Medicare to treat or transfer patients with medical emergencies, regardless of their insurance status — a law that’s become a focus of abortion opponents as they seek to limit access to the procedure.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Reflection Question: How can I best communicate the importance of social interventions to my extended family, community, and patients?) Hospitals Know What’s Coming. The Color of the Coronavirus: COVID-19 Deaths by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. APM Research Lab. link] 07:00 Yong, E. 2020, November 13). No One Is Listening to US.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. We do not have a director of national health preaching against the use of vaccination. Ours is much better. Kennedy Jr.’s

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

The Trump administration has canceled hundreds of grants supporting research on topics such as vaccination; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and the health of LGBTQ+ populations. Others followed the Senate confirmation of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thank you for public service. NIH grants routinely span several years.

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