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Understanding the care for older people in rural China: The role of primary care providers as "the third sphere" [Global health]

Annals of Family Medicine

To address this crisis, China has launched the National Essential Public Health Services (NEPHS) program in 2009, which includes several elderly care initiatives. We advise the government to engage "quasi-officials" in the "third sphere" with the primary care policy-making process in the future. However, its future remains uncertain.

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Negative Expectations

A Country Doctor Writes

So we talked about St John’s Wort and other nonprescription alternatives, all less studied but without foreboding government-mandated warnings. This was long before the 2009 “black box warning” issued by the Food and Drug Administration about the risk for tardive dyskinesia. This is the age of informed consent.

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Experts Urge Clinicians to Adopt CAAT Across Airway Diseases

Physician's Weekly

The CAAT governance board recommends transitioning from the COPD Assessment Test to the CAAT and using it for patients with asthma as well as for those with COPD. Evolution of the Test The editorial explains the test’s evolution since its launch in 2009. A validation study in patients with bronchiectasis began earlier this year.

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

Permanente Medicine

Through this affiliation, we will bring cutting-edge IT, virtual care capabilities, and more than 100 specialties and subspecialties to benefit the patients and communities of Oregon and southwest Washington.” Its more than 1,300 physicians span 54 specialties and provide care for more than 612,000 Kaiser Permanente members in the region.

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Biogen agrees to pay $900 million in largest FCA Settlement Ever Secured without Government’s Intervention

FDA Law

Mr. Bawduniak alleged that, between 2009 and 2014, Biogen paid illegal kickbacks to its largest prescribers to induce them to prescribe the company’s multiple sclerosis drugs, Avonex, Tysabri and Tecfidera, and discourage them from prescribing newer competitor products. This lawsuit was brought to the U.S. See United States ex rel.

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15 Years Strong: Rare Disease Week’s Remarkable Journey of Support

FDA Law

Sasinowski — In 2009 — 15 years ago — the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) announced the first U.S. In 2009 I served as Chair of NORD and through the hard work of countless colleagues we inaugurated the first Rare Disease Day. By Frank J. recognition of Rare Disease Day.

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

FDA Law

Koblitz — You know a court decision is going to be worth reading when the judges compare FDA’s regulatory governance of flavored e-cigarettes to a Shakespearean gaslighting. Clissold & Sara W. FDA originally set the PMTA deadline as August 8, 2022, but a district court in Maryland ordered FDA to shorten it.