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Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

Physician's Weekly

Healthcare Professionals Among healthcare professionals, potential barriers include lack of education, safety concerns, and obesity stigma/weight bias. Waldrop, MD , and colleagues identified barriers to obesity medications more broadly—and potential solutions. They published their insights in Nature Medicine.

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. These systems will considerably reduce the workload of – but not replace- human healthcare professionals.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health. Once you have begun adopting worked sustainable practices into your own clinic, consider working within your professional societies to work for change.

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Biogen agrees to pay $900 million in largest FCA Settlement Ever Secured without Government’s Intervention

FDA Law Blog

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have aggressively pursued antikickback cases in the healthcare industry. See 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(b). Today, these two documents are key in navigating speaker programs in the industry.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Most of the trials that have been conducted are conducted by the manufacturers of those medications. Studies, again, conducted by the manufacturers of the medications, sometimes in populations that in the end aren’t as representative of the older adults in the community who are going to take them and really try to understand this.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Hearing aids, you had six big manufacturers of hearing aids. Five big manufacturers. The post Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Eric: But isn’t it a step forward?

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DEA Concurs: Marijuana Meets Schedule III Criteria

FDA Law Blog

The Single Convention requires manufacturing quotas and import/export permits for schedule I substances. Schedule III substances do not require manufacturing quotas. To comply with the treaty obligations as a schedule III substance, DEA may have to require marijuana import/export permits and manufacturing quotas.

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