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

FDA Law Blog

district court of Massachusetts by former employee and whistleblower Michael Bawduniak in April 2012 as a qui tam action. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have aggressively pursued antikickback cases in the healthcare industry. Wasserstein — On September 26, 2022, Biogen Inc.

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Key Takeaways (Awareness, Access, and Cultural Humility): The conversation ends by emphasizing awareness of mental health warning signs in youth, advocating for broader access to care, and urging healthcare professionals to practice cultural humility. Disclosures The hosts and guests report no relevant financial disclosures.

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Goodbye NSURE, Hello ACNU! FDA Issues Long-Awaited Proposed Rule to Bring OTC Drugs with a Little Something Extra to Market

FDA Law Blog

In March 2012 , FDA convened a public meeting to discuss a new paradigm under consideration, “Using Innovative Technologies and Other Conditions of Safe Use to Expand Which Products Can Be Considered Nonprescription”.

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

GeriPal

There was this big thing called the CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, started in 2012. The post Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

Going back to when I was shopping this idea around the health systems in 2012, we landed on the stepped-wedge design because no one was… I said before you couldn’t randomize people to get palliative care or not, specifically. Eric: And this was done pre-COVID, right? Scott: This was, yes. This was a lifetime’s worth of work.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. The post End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. It’s been around for a while.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And she was from Oregon, of course, and in Oregon in 2012, she had completed an advanced directive for stopping eating and drinking once she had advanced dementia. And I knew it was a matter of time before this came along. There was a patient who was living in Seattle at a skilled nursing facility.

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