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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Weight loss programs for older adults also benefit from co-management by an interdisciplinary team that may include a geriatrician, an obesity medicine specialist, an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian, a bone metabolism specialist, a physical therapist and an exercise physiologist.

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Why are So Many Teens and 20-Somethings Today Anxiety-Ridden?

Doctor Rachel

I am a family practice doc who sees teens and 20-somethings daily in my practice. A study published in the British Medical Journal reported that the more screen time teens engage in, the longer it takes them to fall asleep. I love young people in their teens and 20’s.

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Tinder Profiles By Specialty

GomerBlog

Las Vegas, NV – With COVID still raging across the country, medical professionals of all walks have been looking for ways to burn off some steam. Family Practice: Whatever youd like to do, I can handle it. Physical Therapy: You’re going to need to stretch before and after. In fact, I prefer it!

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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. Medical professionals will be required to review all denials (though insurers say they already do this). But experts say the changes may not go far enough.

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NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, where the derailment occurred, have pressed the government to do more to answer questions about the mental and physical health effects of the disaster — from post-traumatic stress to cancer. We still need an organized medical response, and this should have happened immediately after the disaster,” she added.

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Right Relationships in the Real World

Doctor Rachel

I had an interdisciplinary major in college and a medical school experience integrated with graduate work in the humanities. And I am a family practice doctor (I treat everyone for everything) who is also board certified in integrative medicine. I have perpetually found myself to be compulsively comprehensive.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

And then maybe KN95s, FFP2s and KF94s, if you wear them, at least in physical science studies, if you’re inside in a crowded where Warrior stadium or something, that should provide you some self protection. And all these tools I’m mentioning to you are medical. Oseltamivir isn’t that great. Eric: Yeah.