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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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Paternal Mental Distress Linked to Poorer Offspring Development

Physician's Weekly

The researchers found that there were associations for paternal perinatal mental distress with poorer global, social-emotional, cognitive, language, and physical development in offspring ( r = −0.12, 0.09, −0.07, −0.15, and 0.04, respectively). There was no evidence for adaptive and motor outcomes.

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Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

Physician's Weekly

Officials are also working to improve access to physical therapy, diagnostic imaging and outpatient surgery. More fundamental reform will be needed to address the ubiquitous barriers to care imposed by insurance firms.” Still, some experts remain skeptical. Talk is cheap,” Gaffney said.

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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.