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Oregon-based medical group Northwest Permanente announces affiliation with The Permanente Medical Group of Northern California

Permanente Medicine

The affiliation between NWP and TPMG strengthens the commitment to high-value, quality-driven care for their patients and communities. Both groups have a shared mission of delivering high-quality, cost-efficient care that achieves superior clinical outcomes. Kaiser Permanente in Northern California received 4.5

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Nwamaka Eneanya and Jennifer Tsai to discuss the limitations and harms of race-based medicine in clinical practice. Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality.

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Understand that collective action and a focus on community, rather than individualism, are most effective in combating racism and achieving health equity. One of the biggest barriers to health equity is the narrow focus on the individual and a failure to see health as a widespread community issue.

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The Most Engaging Decision You’ll Read All Year – Five Stars

FDA Law Blog

This story goes back to the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits manufacturers from selling any “new tobacco product” without authorization from FDA. FDA said randomized clinical trials could be used, but so could observational studies with respect to cessation data.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

We have a discussion about the decision to remove race, a social construct, from clinical risk calculators (though I’m not 100% sold that race should always be removed – if removal is likely to worsen disparities for example – at least until a superior race-blind calculator can be developed). Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

Usually I don’t put a lot of background on this podcast, but I got to … in November of 2022, Ava Kofman, along with ProPublica, published … well I won’t want to say great, published an article in The New Yorker that I think it was divisive in the hospice and palliative care community. Is it you, Ira? Eric: Great.

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Reducing cancer deaths, one test at a time

Permanente Medicine

This convenience addresses the biggest barriers patients face, particularly in communities historically underserved by preventive care and for those who have less contact with health care. per 100,000 in 2009 to 23.5 But at its core, this program is about communicating with patients and understanding their needs. A third of U.S.