FDA Law Blog

MAY 7, 2025

The Seventh Circuit took a more lenient approach than the Fourth Circuit, focusing its rationale on whether an independent contractor had improper influence over a healthcare providers independent healthcare decisions. Physicians had ultimate control and exercised independent judgment over their patients healthcare decisions.

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AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This is why conventional physicians treat DCIS in patients with surgery, radiation, and sometimes chemotherapy. Some healthcare providers may recommend an MRI or ultrasound. A simple blood test to screen for cancer risk in patients is growing in demand. Rarely, however, DCIS in situ will turn into an invasive cancer.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

At that point, he was referred to pulmonology who started the patient on albuterol, manual chest physiotherapy, and a steroid inhaler with a plan for a fourth chest x-ray four weeks later. On arrival, the patient was febrile to 38.3C. Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Most patients are safely discharged after ED work-up rules out life-threatening causes. According to clinical guidelines, patients discharged with chest pain should follow-up with a medical doctor (MD) within 72 hours. Search concepts used were ED, patient discharge, primary care, follow up, Canada, and Ontario.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. But then I realized who I wasn’t hearing from, I did not hear from the CEO of my organization, my healthcare organization. One was very surprising.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database that includes vaccine safety information from millions of patients, according to multiple sources. The two had access to the CDC database in 2004 and 2006. The VSD includes data from a dozen large healthcare networks. Results of that work are expected this fall.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. Think about it.

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