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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. How do we make this work for patients and families?

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

In a 2005 article for Rolling Stone that was later retracted, Kennedy claimed government officials had buried data showing a link between vaccines and autism, The Wall Street Journal said. Thimerosal was removed from most vaccines in 2001 as a safety precaution. The final findings were published in 2003.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

In 2001, the CDC set up the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment project, through which a network of eight U.S. It’s unfair and “very bad for public confidence in vaccines,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, a nonprofit that promotes vaccination, speaking on a panel with Salmon at the April conference.