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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.” 5429, the “ Medication Affordability and Patent Integrity Act.”

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

FDA Law Blog

Owners must report the following dosage units meeting or exceeding these thresholds: Tablets, capsules or other medication-99 dosage units; Single-dose injectables, lozenges, films such as oral, buccal and sublingual, suppositories or patches-10 dosage units; and. 40,576, 40,578 (July 8, 2003).

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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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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

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Summary Transcript Summary Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people.

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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

Do you have a medical respite center? Push back against individual narratives that blame individuals for systemic injustice. Calac, Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, MPH, Naomi F. Know your community resources. Our guests emphasize that physicians must be familiar with community resources. Can you refer your patient there? 3.