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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 2)

FDA Law

A surrogate endpoint is a marker, such as a laboratory measurement, radiographic image, physical sign or other measure that is thought to predict clinical benefit but is not itself a measure of clinical benefit. While that’s quite a while ago, the file was complicated by a fight over the IRTNMTA (see our previous post here ).

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Unlike urgent care, which is suited for non-life-threatening conditions, the ER is designed to provide immediate, high-level care for severe complications from a sore throat, such as difficulty breathing, inability to swallow, or signs of a serious infection. Weakened immune systems increase the risk of complications — seek care sooner.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. I think it was 2014, but we did a survey of driving rehabilitation specialists in the U.S. Those things do just accumulate with age.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Naheed 15:56 2014. Eric 15:57 2014. I’m guessing, like here, especially in 2014, almost none of it was. They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. Eric 15:54 What year did you start peach?