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What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

The Joint National Committee 2003 defines hypertension as systolic of 140 mmHg and higher or diastolic 90 mmHg and higher. What are some of the complications from having hypertension? Depending on your personal medical history and open discussion with your physician, this will guide your treatment plan.

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Navigating the Quademic: Clinical Differentiation of Influenza, RSV, COVID-19, and Norovirus in Pediatric Emergency Care

PEMBlog

This article delineates the salient clinical features, associated complications, cost considerations, and risk profiles for each virus, thereby providing a framework for informed clinical decision-making. Common Complications : Otitis media : Diagnosis is supported by the presence of a bulging tympanic membrane with purulent effusion.

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Transition Plans for Covid-19 Products are Amongst CDRH FY2023 Priorities

FDA Law Blog

Also part of FDA’s FY2023 guidance document plan is a retrospective review of guidance documents issued in 1993, 2003, and 2013. FDA’s retrospective review of the 2003 guidance documents will include user labeling for devices that contain natural rubber and premarket approval application modular review.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Orange Book But Were Too Afraid To Ask

FDA Law Blog

Finally, the Patent Listing section of the Orange Book addresses some of the major issues FDA wrestled with in adopting the 2016 rules implementing the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. While nothing in it is new, it—especially when read with the TE Code guidance—makes sense of FDA’s quite complicated approach to drug listing.

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Episode 232: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 15 – Housing is Health: Racism and Homelessness – Clinician + Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Kushel detailed how the use of dehumanizing language equates to complicity in a narrative that systemically harms our neighbors with lived expertise in homelessness. By 2003, 37% were 50 and older. Another term he uses is “people with the lived expertise of homelessness,” which centers them as experts in solution-making.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

And in 2003, I formed Pallium India with several colleagues with the national agenda, because still then the growth was mostly conveyed to Kerala and a couple of metropolitan cities. And I’ll share that my own relationship with my father, who was a doctor, was a complicated one. I’m not sure he would really approve.

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Ding Dong is the Skinny Label (Effectively) Dead?

FDA Law Blog

Teva submitted an ANDA in 2002, and after some complicated regulatory history, ultimately carved-out the congestive heart failure indication by way of a section viii statement. Teva received tentative approval in June 2003 and launched in 2007 after a blocking patent expired.

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