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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Primary Care

Primary Care Provider Government Community

Experts Urge Clinicians to Adopt CAAT Across Airway Diseases

Physician's Weekly

JULY 10, 2025

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.

Asthma

Asthma Government Clinical Practice Diagnose

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

Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

NWP and TPMG are physician-led, independent Permanente Medical Groups who partner exclusively with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to provide care for their patients in Oregon, southwest Washington, and Northern California. TPMG comprises nearly 10,000 physicians in 116 specialties, providing care for 4.6 million members in California.

Medical

Medical Patient-Centered Community Hospital

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

FDA Law

JANUARY 15, 2024

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.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing IT Provider ER

From GRP to SIUU – the Evolution of FDA Guidance on Off-Label Dissemination of Scientific Information

FDA Law

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Dara Katcher Levy — Yesterday, FDA published a new Draft Guidance, “ Communications from Firms to Health Care Providers Regarding Scientific Information on Unapproved Uses of Approved/Cleared Medical Products Questions and Answers ” (SIUU Guidance or Draft Guidance).

Clinic

Clinic Clinical Practice Provider Utilities

Separating the Hype from the Hyperbole Surrounding FDORA’s Alternatives to Animal Testing under the FD&C Act

FDA Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

While these changes to the IND and the biosimilarity provisions represent real changes to the words governing FDA’s authority under the FD&C Act, we think it is worth asking just how measurable and immediate an impact they will have on day-to-day decision-making of the FDA and its review staff.

Clinic

Clinic IT Utilities Government

I Hear You Knockin’… Preparing for and Managing DEA Inspections (Part 1)

FDA Law

MAY 3, 2021

Recent Department of Justice (“DOJ”) press releases continue to show evidence of reported registrant civil settlements with the Government alleging recordkeeping and reporting deficiencies. Part 1 provides background and explains the scope of DEA cyclic and on-site inspections. Background. 17, 2020.

Management

Management Manufacturing Specialization IT

I Hear You Knockin’… Preparing for and Managing DEA Inspections (Part 1)

FDA Law

MAY 3, 2021

Recent Department of Justice (“DOJ”) press releases continue to show evidence of reported registrant civil settlements with the Government alleging recordkeeping and reporting deficiencies. Part 1 provides background and explains the scope of DEA cyclic and on-site inspections. Background. 17, 2020.

Management

Management Manufacturing Specialization IT

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

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

For others, this piece, while painful to read, gave voice to what they have been feeling over the last decade – hospice has in some ways lost its way in a quest of promoting profit over care. If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. Is it you, Ira?

IT

IT Provider Patients Families

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

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

This long and sordid history of gabapentin and pregabalin is beautifully described in Seth Landefeld and Mike Steinman 2009 NEJM editorial. By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review. Annals of IM.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical

Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. We talk about: . Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Complication

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients

California Immigrants Weigh Health Coverage Against Deportation Risk

Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

Maria is among what the federal government estimates are 2.6 without legal permission — along with the providers and community workers that help them — are anxiously weighing the benefits of pushing forward with Medi-Cal applications against the risks of discovery and deportation by the federal government. Currently, about 1.6

Community

Community Government Provider Insurance

To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health Care

Physician's Weekly

JULY 3, 2025

One of the best-known programs born via reconciliation is the “COBRA” health insurance continuation, which allows people who leave jobs with employer-provided insurance to keep it for a time, as long as they pay the full premium. In years when Congress orders a reconciliation bill, health policy almost always plays a major part.

Insurance

Insurance Vaccination Provider Families

Dual Threats From Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 27, 2025

In an email, Vianca Rodriguez Feliciano, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, said the agency “is committed to supporting a strong, stable long-term care workforce” and “continues to work with states and providers to ensure quality care for older adults and individuals with disabilities.”

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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]

Experts Urge Clinicians to Adopt CAAT Across Airway Diseases

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

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

From GRP to SIUU – the Evolution of FDA Guidance on Off-Label Dissemination of Scientific Information

Separating the Hype from the Hyperbole Surrounding FDORA’s Alternatives to Animal Testing under the FD&C Act

I Hear You Knockin’… Preparing for and Managing DEA Inspections (Part 1)

I Hear You Knockin’… Preparing for and Managing DEA Inspections (Part 1)

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

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

Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

California Immigrants Weigh Health Coverage Against Deportation Risk

To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health Care

Dual Threats From Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers

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