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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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Higher Dietary Calcium Intake May Up Risk of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Physician's Weekly

Hongyuan Chang, from Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, and colleagues used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted from 2003 to 2008 to examine the association between dietary calcium intake and the risk of BPH. and those without hypertension.

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Episode 176: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 8 – Towards Justice and Race Conscious Medicine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Rather than searching for obscure explanations for inequalities, we must instead recognize the ways that racism impedes health at both individual and structural levels. Combination of isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine in blacks with heart failure. N Engl J Med. 2004 Nov 11;351(20):2049-57. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa042934.

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To List or Not to List; That is the Question – The FTC Signals the Potential for Greater Scrutiny of Patent Information Submissions to FDA

FDA Law Blog

Thus, “FTC intends to use its full legal authority” to take action “against companies and individuals that improperly list patents in the Orange Book that do not meet the statutory listing criteria.”

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Not An April Fool’s Joke: California BOP Establishes Loss Reporting Thresholds

FDA Law Blog

40,576, 40,578 (July 8, 2003). Unlike the Board, DEA does not require witnessed damaged, spilled or damaged controlled substances reportable because the registrant can account for them. Reports by Registrants of Theft or Significant Loss of Controlled Substances, 68 Fed.

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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. Consequently, because both applications were approved at the same time, both applications represent the first permitted commercial marketing or use of the product or the individual active ingredients, as outlined under 35 U.S.C. Ezra Ventures LLC, 909 F.3d 3d 1367 (Fed. 2018) , Arnold Partnership v.

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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

Push back against individual narratives that blame individuals for systemic injustice. By 2003, 37% were 50 and older. If we are not part of the solution, we are complicit in structural injustice. Dr. Kushel and Mr. Watts remind healthcare providers to speak out about the structural causes of homelessness.