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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket. Some older people are really eager to be vaccinated. Kennedy Jr.,

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Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Rural Northern New England for Adults [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Background: Vaccinating a significant portion of the American population with one of the COVID-19 vaccines is critical in reaching herd immunity to end the current pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy remains a major hurtle in ending this pandemic.

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2024 Summer Pinecones E-Newsletter -- ADVOCACY News

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

Providers of abortion and gender affirming care in Maine are effectively shielded from laws in other states by the passage of protection by the legislature. Pat Connolly & Cortney Linville who attended the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit in Washington May 19-21. LD 227 was signed by Governor Mills.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. Eric 18:34 And what did you find?

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

A huge portion of that difference in wealth you can trace back to the fact that their families were not able to get into the housing market. So there’s this myth out there like, “Oh, homeless folks are just disconnected from their friends or family, and if only we connected them by Facebook, all would be good.”

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Book Review: Booster Shots by Dr. Adam Ratner

Common Sense Family Doctor

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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KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: RFK Jr. Upends Vaccine Policy, After Promising He Wouldn’t

Physician's Weekly

After explicitly promising senators during his confirmation hearing that he would not interfere in scientific policy over which Americans should receive which vaccines, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy then appointed new members, including vaccine skeptics, prompting alarm from the broader medical community.