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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. And not to overuse the sports medicine euphemism too much, but I always say that medicine is a team sport, right from the check-in receptionist to the LVN or the MA who does the vitals to my visit, to the RN who follows up or does the vaccines. WM: Like you, I’m a family physician.

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Can the Tropical PRV Have Its Moment (Again?) – Not all Priority Review Vouchers are Created Alike: What the Potential Loss of the Rare Pediatric PRV Could Mean for the Tropical Disease PRV Program

FDA Law Blog

In 2006, David Ridley, Henry Grabowski, and Jeff Moe proposed a voucher in an article in Health Affairs as an incentive to develop therapies for neglected infectious and parasitic diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people in the developing world.

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

Physician's Weekly

THURSDAY, June 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A longtime vaccine critic hired by Health Secretary Robert F. is reviewing safety data in an effort to revisit debunked claims that vaccines may cause autism. Geier and his late father, geneticist Mark Geier, spent decades promoting the idea that vaccines are linked to autism.