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Study finds primary care physicians increasingly treat mental health concerns

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, compared national data on primary care visits from 2006 and 2007 to data from 2016 and 2018, finding that the proportion of visits addressing mental health concerns rose by almost 50 percent.

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

FDA Law

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert & Sophia R. Gibbs — For more than three decades, FDA has claimed that the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C Act) gives the agency legal authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices (see our prior post here ). Gaulkin & Jeffrey N.

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

FDA Law

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Refractive Surgery Council (RSC) and Society for Excellence in Eyecare (SEE) , the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) , and even the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s attorney general (AG) all requested the draft guidance be withdrawn. Regulatory Analysis. These lasers were previously approved with patient information booklets.

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Politics and practice guidelines: a volatile mix

The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 14, 2013

The annual budget for the National Institutes of Health , for example, is typically around 100 times that of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Citing John Wennberg's pioneering geographic analyses of medical practice variations and potentially inappropriate use of health services across the U.S., Phillips, Jr.

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

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

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.

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

Permanente Medicine

APRIL 29, 2025

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. Levin, MD , a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research scientist and gastroenterologist with The Permanente Medical Group. The study of 1.1

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

FDA Law

MARCH 15, 2023

By Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — Earlier this month, FDA published a final rule to update the mammography regulations, issued under the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 (MQSA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). It authorized FDA oversight over mammography facilities.

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

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Alex: We are in the California Medical Facility and we will ask our guest about that. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program. Michele: Yep.

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

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

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. Really, to be a bridge between whether it’s a health plan on the healthcare side, Greg mentioned a hospital discharge, which is so common. Eric: And Susan?

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

It led to revocation of the elder Geier’s medical license and disciplinary action for David Geier for practicing medicine without a license. The two had access to the CDC database in 2004 and 2006. The VSD includes data from a dozen large healthcare networks.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And I graduated from medical school in the early 80s. And I was working at the time at Yale in New Haven, and I became medical director of a facility which was initially created in New Haven as a hospice like facility for people with HIV, which is in late 1995 and in 1996 when the Protease inhibitors came along. Meredith 09:33 Yes.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? We have all of these models that are out there that have proven benefits for patients, for caregivers, and some of them for healthcare systems as far as saving money for, let’s say, Medicare. Why do we need to do more?

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

This post first appeared on March 6, 2018, during the first Trump administration's failed attempt to eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Sadly, when all medical waste is somebody's income, there is little enthusiasm in the medical-industrial complex or on Capitol Hill in allocating the $3 trillion the U.S.

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Study finds primary care physicians increasingly treat mental health concerns

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

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

Politics and practice guidelines: a volatile mix

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

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

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

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

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

RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

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