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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

Regulating LDTs: A Long and Winding Road In what might sound to some like protesting too much, the PR invokes FDA’s longstanding assertion that IVDs “manufactured” by laboratories are medical devices and that clinical laboratories that develop tests are acting as manufacturers. This comparison is misplaced.

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Draft LASIK Guidance: Why Did FDA Issue New Labeling Recommendations for Products that Already Have PMA Approved Labeling?

FDA Law Blog

This form lists important risks, including those known or reported to be associated with the use of the LASIK laser devices based on information from clinical trials, scientific literature, and reports from patients who have undergone LASIK. After reviewing the information. please read and discuss the items in this checklist with your doctor.

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Kaiser Permanente study shows screening efforts cut colorectal cancer deaths in half

Permanente Medicine

million men and women aged 50 to 75 examined the outcomes of a Kaiser Permanente Northern California initiative begun in 2006 to increase colorectal cancer screening rates. Findings from the study demonstrate how routine cancer screening with a test that can both prevent cancer and lead to earlier detection helps enhance quality of care.

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FDA to Require Breast Density Notification Amongst Other Updates to Mammography Regulations

FDA Law Blog

See Government Accountability Office, “ GAO-06-724 Mammography: Current Nationwide Capacity Is Adequate, but Access Problems May Exist in Certain Locations ” (July 2006). Current regulations do not require breast density notification to be part of the healthcare provider report or the lay summary to the patient.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

2006 Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. And so it pops up and if you’re a different prescriber from a different healthcare system, you can still see if people have filled it, it’s limited to the amount of fills you can get in the amount of tablets or capsules you can get in a month. Annals of IM. Tasce: Right.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. There are clinics. Shout out to the UC Berkeley-USCF Joint Medical Program.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. There’s so many great tech tools out there now that older adults are using and can use to really wrap around the social services and the clinical services.