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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me.

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Long-lasting HIV prevention shot headed toward approval

Medical Xpress

Many people still face stigma or lack insurance coverage, which can limit access. Most current PrEP users have commercial insurance, but Medicaid will be key for expanding access to lower-income communities. In clinical trials, no participants who received the injection acquired HIV. What are the consequences?

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Trump Says He’ll Stop Health Care Fraudsters. Last Time, He Let Them Walk.

Physicians News Digest

By Brett Kelman Five years ago, the CEO of one of the largest pain clinic companies in the Southeast was sentenced to more than three years in prison after being convicted in a $4 million illegal kickback scheme. They received medically unreasonable and unnecessary tests and procedures that victimized his patients and the American taxpayer.”