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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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Senators to DEA: Consider Treaty Obligations In Marijuana Rescheduling

FDA Law Blog

Milgram’s predecessors, and Directors of National Drug Policy urging not to reschedule; the January 2004 letter Democratic state attorneys general pushing for rescheduling to schedule III; and the January 2024 letter from Democratic senators requesting descheduling altogether. 811(d) and U.S. Whether DEA believes the U.S.

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New Technologies and 3D Imaging — “The Virtual Microscope”

CDOCS

I personally invested in a microscope (Global) in 2004. & Some examples of this would be for as a failing root canal, a presurgical consultation, to determine an odontogentic or non-odontogenic lesion, or if the source of the patient’s chief complaint is not obvious on the 2D radiograph.

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FDA’s Issues Draft Guidance on Accelerated Approval: A Substantial Evidentiary and Procedural Overhaul to this High-Profile Pathway

FDA Law Blog

Lastly, the reforms enacted by FDORA required that FDA publish guidance on early consultation with FDA to identify novel surrogate or intermediate clinical endpoints, use of novel trials designs for postapproval studies, the expedited withdrawal procedures, and considerations related to the use of surrogate and intermediate clinical endpoints.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. 2004 Nov;49(4):302-9. The CT also showed normal pulmonary venous return via the left lower pulmonary vein. PMID: 442005; PMCID: PMC471015. Marrie TJ, Beecroft MD, Herman-Gnjidic Z.