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3 days ago | 
healio.com | Emma Bascom
Key takeaways: CMS is rescinding a Biden administration-era policy on abortion care for women in medical emergencies. Experts told Healio about the legal and ethical implications for providers. CMS announced that it is rescinding guidance directing U.S. hospitals to provide abortion care when necessary for pregnant patients experiencing medical emergencies. In July 2022 — just after Roe v.
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3 days ago | 
healio.com | Emma Bascom
Key takeaways: Children’s eating habits may be influenced by the quality of their father’s diet when he was an adolescent. Early nutritional intervention from PCPs could have an intergenerational effect, a researcher said. ORLANDO — Men’s eating habits in adolescence may offer a clue to their children’s future nutritional health, according to a presentation at the annual NUTRITION meeting. Mariane H.
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5 days ago | 
healio.com | Emma Bascom
Key takeaways: A study following 200,000 people for decades revealed new data on the importance of food quality for heart health. PCPs should focus on their patients’ macronutrient quality, a researcher said. ORLANDO — For heart health, food quality matters just as much as a dietary pattern, according to presenters at the annual NUTRITION meeting.
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1 week ago | 
healio.com | Emma Bascom
Key takeaways: The guideline has eight points of emphasis on specific elements of lifestyle medicine. PCPs can use them to support their patients. ORLANDO — Primary care providers can use a new clinical advisory guideline to nutritionally support patients who are using GLP-1 receptor agonists, according to experts.
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2 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Emma Bascom
Key takeaways: Sharon Malone, MD, called on providers to reclaim their power and rebuild trust in medicine. Providers can use technology to "leverage the expertise of a few over many," Malone said. MINNEAPOLIS — It is a challenging time to be a women’s health care provider, but there are ways physicians can reclaim their power while navigating uncertainty, according to Sharon Malone, MD.
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2 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Emma Bascom
Key takeaways: PCPs depend on resources from AHRQ and SAMHSA to provide preventive and mental health care. Experts gave Healio specific examples of how cuts to these agencies may directly impact patients. Major cuts to some federal health agencies could have a detrimental impact on the everyday work primary care providers do, according to experts.
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3 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Emma Bascom
Key takeaways: Experts said important academic research has been stalled after the NIH pulled federal grants. Cuts to institution funding may force researchers to leave their university jobs for work with private investors. President Donald J. Trump’s administration has announced major federal cuts in the name of efficiency, but this has massive repercussions for academic medical researchers and the patients who rely on their work, according to experts.
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3 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Sara Kellner |Emma Bascom
Key takeaways: HHS released a review finding significant risks and few benefits of gender-affirming care for adolescents. Experts told Healio they took issue with the language, methodology and conclusions of the report. HHS published a review of gender-affirming care for minors that claimed there are significant risks associated with medical interventions and what the department called “very weak evidence of benefits.”On Jan.
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4 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Emma Bascom
Read more Key takeaways:Patients can now collect cervical cancer screening samples themselves, at home. Manufacturers of the new device say it is as accurate as traditional screening methods. The FDA has approved the first and only self-collection cervical cancer screening device, where patients can obtain their own samples from the comfort of their own home.
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4 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Emma Bascom |Martina Kelly
Key takeaways: Sounds in the clinical environment can be a tool for PCPs to learn more about their patients and offer better care. For example, providers noticing quickened speech and nervous tapping could consider anxiety. The sounds of a primary care clinic often become white noise to the modern overworked provider, but paying attention to these everyday noises can play an important role in quality care, according to an expert.
