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Join Us for an HPM Webinar: Recent Hospital Controlled Substance Diversion Cases — Cautionary Tales; Tuesday, October 3, 2023: 12:00-12:45

FDA Law Blog

In this webinar you’ll learn: How employees diverted controlled substances — their methods are constantly evolving What red flags were missed DEA inspection priorities Safeguards to minimize internal diversion Best practices for maximizing diversion detection Mr. Houck was a DEA Diversion Investigator for 15 years prior to joining HPM in 2001.

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Reminder: HP&M Webinar on Recent Hospital Controlled Substance Diversion Cases — Cautionary Tales; Tuesday, October 3, 2023: 12:00-12:45

FDA Law Blog

In this webinar you’ll learn: How employees diverted controlled substances — their methods are constantly evolving What red flags were missed DEA inspection priorities Safeguards to minimize internal diversion Best practices for maximizing diversion detection Mr. Houck was a DEA Diversion Investigator for 15 years prior to joining HPM in 2001.

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

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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. I am passionately against bad care and there is a lot of bad hospice care that preys on highly vulnerable patients and is unnecessary. Eric: Great.

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

Physician's Weekly

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database that includes vaccine safety information from millions of patients, according to multiple sources. Thimerosal was removed from most vaccines in 2001 as a safety precaution. Results of that work are expected this fall. Geier, meanwhile, is trying to gain access to a U.S.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law Blog

Not surprisingly, then-presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson, DEA Administrator from 2001 to 2003, did not sign the letter. The regulated cannabis marketplace brings in billions of dollars in revenue into state and federal governments, with predictions that cannabis sales will exceed $53 billion by 2027.

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

Physician's Weekly

He directed the patients to seek local help. While it’s possible that Nath’s patients suffered covid vaccine injuries, Marks said, their symptoms were so varied it was hard to characterize a possible syndrome. In 2001, the CDC set up the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment project, through which a network of eight U.S.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.