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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. Couch Potato Kids: All humans are physiologically designed to be active, and young people, at their physical peak, should be the most active at all. I love young people in their teens and 20’s.

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Tinder Profiles By Specialty

GomerBlog

Family Practice: Whatever youd like to do, I can handle it. Physical Therapy: You’re going to need to stretch before and after. Emergency Medicine: Ill do anything you want to do, it just takes me 4 hours and a couple tests to figure out what it is. ENT: Like the Weber test, I lateral one toward bad conduct!

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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.

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Right Relationships in the Real World

Doctor Rachel

And I am a family practice doctor (I treat everyone for everything) who is also board certified in integrative medicine. I am a 51 year old volleyball player who is doing her best and having a lot of fun, and honestly… will probably peak in my physical ability within the next 4 years.” We are earth animals.

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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. So TB, we all wear N95 masks and that does actually protect you.