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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

A recent study offers recommendations on how to balance weight loss goals and bone health concerns in weight management programs for older adults. Given practical constraints in many healthcare settings, who are the minimum essential team members for multidisciplinary management of weight loss in older adults?

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MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities in Senate Omnibus Bill

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Audio-Only Telehealth This bill to include audio-only telehealth as a reimbursable option was also included in the Senate HHS omnibus bill. Establishing medical practice licensure requirements for individuals who have practiced medicine outside the U.S. and satisfied certain requirements.

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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

Heather Massey, Sustainability Programs Manager hmassey@mygreendoctor.org (469) 877-4608 Make the Pledge Today! If doctors, nurses, and practice managers highlight the connection between environmental factors and patient well-being, people listen—and they take action. from 2000 to 2018 among people over 65 years old. Contact us today!

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Clinical Trials Join the Remote Work Revolution: FDA’s New Draft Guidance on Decentralized Clinical Trials

FDA Law Blog

Study visits can be conducted using telehealth visits if in-person interaction is not necessary. Dr. Sacks also explained that DHTs and DCTs may “open access to research” for older individuals and people with disabilities who are not able to travel to clinical trial sites, but could participate from home or a nearby clinic.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In the other corner, we have the young upstart, able to reach patients across vast distances when delivering palliative care, all in the comfort of wearing pajamas, we have telehealth delivered palliative care. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care. Consultations versus telehealth.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management. A doctor can help identify triggers, suggest lifestyle changes, and recommend medications to manage symptoms.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Eric: And we’re going to get to results, but that’s why I also love that 2016 paper: I think it was the very first palliative care trial that ever looked at individuals getting curative therapy. Eric: I think about it as the first one to address individuals’ curative therapy. Tom: That’s probably true.