Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

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? Structured exercise programs can help in both regards.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

“Most people in this study were taking more than one blood pressure medication, but we found that you can lower it further with dietary change,” coauthor Lawrence Appel, M.D., The effect of sodium reduction appeared stronger than the effect of the DASH4D diet. For each diet, adverse events were infrequent.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

It’s “going to streamline it in some incremental ways only,” Dr. Adam Gaffney , a critical care doctor and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, told NBC News. Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal. But experts say the changes may not go far enough.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The combination pill is the first and only FDA-approved triple combination medication for use as an initial therapy in patients who will likely need multiple drugs to achieve their ideal blood pressure numbers. The pill is available in a standard dose, as well as two low doses, and can be used in those initiating treatment.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But the FDA has never approved it for any medical condition in the U.S. Calello explained that it falls under a gray area of consumer supplements or products that are not regulated or tested the same way a medication would be. More than a dozen needed intensive care. .” And, the U.S. Amid a rise in calls to U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

These findings form the basis of a final recommendation statement published online June 24 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “Screening women of reproductive age is an effective way for clinicians to connect those who need it to care,” USPSTF member David Chelmow, M.D., Cynthia Feltner, M.D.,

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

from the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and colleagues examined sleep duration and the longest stretch of sleep (LSS) to quantify maternal sleep during the first 13 postpartum weeks. Teresa Lillis, Ph.D., The analysis included 41 first-time mothers with wearable data for one year before and after childbirth. .

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