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Disaster preparedness, What we have learned from COVID 19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Despite a joint recommendation in 2003 by the AAMC and CDC that bioterrorism and mass-casualty training be included in the medical school curriculum, few medical schools have incorporated formal disaster training. Result: Among participants, 9% (n=3) had previous public health emergency experience, while 91% (n=31) did not.

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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003. It was one thing to ask drivers to buy car insurance.

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Cancer Doesn't Discriminate. or Does It? Dr. Rebecca Redman

Louisville Lectures

She graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health in 2003. Dr. Redman is affiliated with University Of Louisville Hospital and Robley Rex VA Medical Center. Rebecca Redman presents "Cancer Doesn't Discriminate. or Does It?" She then explores initiatives to address cancer disparities. Learn more here.

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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%. 52494 (Nov. CMS estimated a savings of $1.6 See 42 U.S.C.

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Former FDAer Dr. Ellis F. Unger Joins Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. as Principal Drug Regulatory Expert

FDA Law Blog

He completed his cardiology training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1987. From 1997 to 2003, Dr. Unger served as a medical officer, team leader, and subsequently branch chief in FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (“CBER”).

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

Those who pave new roads and create new paths find the connections between what others have done and what works in their practices. Dr. Christian Chaussy, a urologist in Munich, Germany, noted pitting on the surface of an aircraft as it approached the sound barrier—a unique occurrence caused by the shock wave created in front of a drop of moisture.

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 1)

FDA Law Blog

2003) , and Biogen lnt’l v. leave you scratching your head (we’ll call it “Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?”). Part 1: Multiple PTEs Under the PTE statute at 35 U.S.C. § The PTO’s not-even-specious-argument, citing what certainly appears to us to be absolutely irrelevant case law, such as Novartis AG v. Ezra Ventures LLC, 909 F.3d 3d 1367 (Fed.