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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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A Historic Day in Drug Development: FDA Approves Amylyx’s Drug to Treat ALS, Demonstrating FDA’s Application of Appropriate Flexibility in Rare Diseases

FDA Law Blog

This approval decision charts a path for the exercise of appropriate flexibility in regulatory decisions for other rare conditions where there is a serious and/or life-threatening unmet medical need, as is very often the case. We would like to acknowledge FDA for its efforts on this devastating condition, ALS. emphasis added).

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Long Time Passing: Where Have All the De Novo Decision Summaries Gone?

FDA Law Blog

By Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Jeffrey N. The De Novo process provides a regulatory pathway to classify novel devices for which general controls alone or general and special controls provide reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness for the intended use.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

Pregnant with her second child, she schleps a backpack instead of a traditional black bag to carry a laptop and essential medical supplies — stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, and pulse oximeter. Their growth has bolstered primary care, and, like doctors, they can specialize in particular branches of medicine.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Alex: Okay.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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