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Key Bills in the 2025 Legislative Session AAFP is Watching Closely

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

Tim Melson SB 43 protects patient access to cost and treatment information by prohibiting health insurers from restricting physicians, health care providers, and pharmacists from discussing the cost of treatments or medications, including lower-cost alternatives.

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Episode 309 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 23 – Anti-Blackness, Anti-Fatness, and Food Shaming

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Harrison, the work that they do is deeply informed by the history of chattel slavery in the United States, through which eugenicists, white anthropologists, and racial realists created entire disorders to medicalize and bastardize enslaved folks who were interested in freedom. Episode Takeaways Origin Stories – For Dr. Psyche A.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

So it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. We’re that middle area where whether it be our clinics, in the operating rooms- Leslie: You are talking about a network of corporations, of manufacturers, of suppliers, of scientific research groups. And then access to those. Karl: Sure.