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Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

’s (2006) narrative synthesis was used to analyze and report the results. A consultation was conducted with eight members of the Deaf community to complete the results. A community consultation identified the evaluation of the cost of providing sign language interpreters (or not) as a top research priority.

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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. in 2006 to 1.9%

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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

I joined SCPMG straight from residency in 2006. Can we talk more about the evolving landscape within which we all have to operate as Kaiser Permanente, but also as physicians and health care providers and how patients’ perceptions and the experience they have can impact those choices and the business of medicine?

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

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. Michele: Yep.

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“If You’ve Got Legitimate Suspenders, Don’t Have an Unconstitutional Belt:” Federalist Society Panel’s Take on Jarkesy and the Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act

FDA Law Blog

142 includes some new provisions (compared to previous iterations of the bill) to expressly provide for the Federal trade Commission (“FTC”) to obtain forfeiture and civil penalties in an administrative proceeding initiated by the Commission. 2233 (2013) , that so-called reverse payment settlement agreements are presumptively unlawful.

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FDA Flips It and Reverses It: FDA Withdraws HHS Withdrawal of UDI Guidance

FDA Law Blog

As explained in CPG 440.100 and on FDA’s website , FDA adopted the “Unapproved Drug Initiative” (“UDI”) in 2006—later revised in 2011 —to remove unapproved drugs from the market using a risk-based approach both to ensure the safety and efficacy of all drug products on the market and the integrity of the drug approval process.

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