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Staff perspectives of a novel integrated community care hub in an urban underserved population (UK) [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

o Context or Objective: The UK is witnessing an increase in emergency department use and hospital admissions for children and young people from underserved populations, exacerbated in the UK by continued issues around access to primary care.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

In practice, doing both simultaneously can be challenging but certainly possible with some planning. First, to meet protein needs, patients can be counseled to include 30 grams of high-quality protein sources at each meal. How might primary care physicians coordinate this care in settings with limited specialist access?

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FDA Approves Polypill Widaplik for Hypertension

Physician's Weekly

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 most common adverse event reported in patients treated with Widaplik was symptomatic low blood pressure.

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Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

Physician's Weekly

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. Starting next year, if a patient switches insurance plans while getting treatment, the new plan must honor the old plan’s prior authorization for at least 90 days.

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ADA: Weight Loss, Type 2 Diabetes Remission Up With Replacing Diet Drinks With Water

Physician's Weekly

The patients were randomly assigned to either substitute with water or continue drinking DBs for the 18-month follow-up. A total of 81 adult women with overweight or obesity (body mass index 27 to 35 kg/m 2 ) and T2D (glycated hemoglobin 6.5 versus −4.85 ± 2.07 Farshchi, M.D., chief executive officer of D2Type, said in a statement.

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The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care

Mesa Family Physician

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. How is it different from general practice? And how does it support preventive care? Can an Internist Be a Primary Care Provider?

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Greater Epigenetic Age Seen in Patients With Pediatric-Onset MS

Physician's Weekly

The post Greater Epigenetic Age Seen in Patients With Pediatric-Onset MS first appeared on Physician's Weekly. But these kids are accumulating cellular damage that may not show up clinically until years later, when they suddenly transition from doing fine to disease progression in their 30s,” senior author Jennifer S. Graves, M.D.,