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Supreme Court Finds CMS’ Reduction of Medicare Hospital Outpatient Payment Rates for 340B Hospitals was Not Authorized by Statute

FDA Law Blog

Kirschenbaum — In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule to significantly decrease the rate the government will reimburse 340B hospitals in 2018 for outpatient prescription drugs from average sales price (“ASP”) plus 6% to ASP minus 22.5%. By Faraz Siddiqui & Alan M. 52494 (Nov.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. And I believe it needs the community.

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

Physician's Weekly

He has no record in the scientific community of doing valid work,” said Dr. Walter Orenstein , a former CDC immunization director. 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.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

So we realized that we had a series of cross-sectional studies in San Francisco from the early 1990s to 2003. We looked at it and realized that in the early 1990s, 11% of folks were 50 and over, and by 2003, 37% were. I would love to get the geriatrics community to say, “Age is just a number.” Not true, actually.

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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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Arsenicum album for Kerala school students: a bogus prophylaxis

Tiny Physician

The Kerala government has taken off all the restrictions imposed due to the case surge as caseload has come down, and is also planning to restart schools from the second half of November. Later, due to mass outrage from the scientific community, the label of ‘drug for treatment’ was changed to ‘immunity booster’ (5). Dipankar et.

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On chronic disease prevention, RFK Jr.'s actions speak louder than words

Common Sense Family Doctor

HHS has traditionally relied on panels of non-government experts to guide its work in prevention, and after the DOGE-driven cuts that resulted in the departure of 20 percent of its workforce , it needs outside help more than ever. Public trust will erode, innovation will stall, and lives will be lost unnecessarily.