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Biden Administration Facing Renewed Pressure to Legalize Cannabis

FDA Law Blog

Cole providing guidance to U.S. It is worth noting that the CSA provides that HHS medical and scientific findings on drugs are controlling. 21 U.S.C. ยง 812(b)(1). 3 (July 5, 2022) [hereinafter CRCC Letter]. The โ€œCole Memoโ€ was a memorandum from General James M. 26, 2022).

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Moreover, center patients not only in discussions about individual decision-making but in constructing and drawing meaning from the research. Tsai has seen race-based medicine play out in clinical practice 10:45 What role should race play in making clinical decisions?

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

GeriPal

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults.

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? โ€œNo, and Donโ€™t Call Me Shirley!โ€ โ€“ The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 1)

FDA Law Blog

For years after the enactment of the Hatch-Waxman Amendments the PTO interpreted the PTE statute to permit multiple PTEs, provided there are separate, but not necessarily different, regulatory review periods. leave you scratching your head (weโ€™ll call it โ€œWhoโ€™s Buried in Grantโ€™s Tomb?โ€). 351, 355-56 (1985). l 56(c)(4) and 37 C.F.R.

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

GeriPal

I think some individuals thought there was cherry-picking of stories that made it seem like hospice is this bad thing, that it’s taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and it didn’t talk enough about the good things that hospice does. And the big question, is hospice losing its way? Is it you, Ira? Alex: Great choice.

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Gabapentinoids โ€“ Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

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.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

And I think the question for our field is, is that because the estimates that we have of GFR based on creatinine provide misrepresentation or an inaccurate representation of someone’s kidney function. Do target trials differ from randomized trials and โ€œordinaryโ€ observational studies, or do they differ?!? Eric is skeptical.