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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. Current Responses: Necessary but Insufficient Medical organizations have responded with advocacy efforts and public campaigns.

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The Approach to Chest Pain with Dr. Chris Migliore

Louisville Lectures

After, he reviews elements of the chest physical exam and finally, he reviews the fundamentals of clinical reasoning concerning chest pain. Chris Migliore earned a Bachelor and Masters of Science, both in Physiology, at Southern Illinois University, and completed a Masters of Arts at Loyola University Chicago in Medical Sciences.

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Here We Go Again

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

I opened my diary (an actual physical book, not Outlook) and the silver ribbon is firmly stuck in the week of Wednesday 22nd May. This had been preceded by a fantastic 24 hours in Madrid with another raft of fabulous females, which had come just after the Medical Women's Federation conference in Cambridge where I met loads of lovely people.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert & Sophia R. Gibbs — For more than three decades, FDA has claimed that the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C Act) gives the agency legal authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices (see our prior post here ). Gaulkin & Jeffrey N.

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Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19

BMJ

quarantine-breakers”) or video clips of people shouting at or even physically assaulting Wuhanese or people who visited Wuhan after the outbreak. 8 For example, prestigious medical schools and hospitals could use official WeChat accounts to share information and news with the general public. 2014 (28 August). doi:10.3389/fcomm.2020.00039

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #1: Mission: SPACE

PEMBlog

Andrea De Jesús Martínez Chief PEM Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine | Texas Children’s Hospital Instagram: @bcm_pemfellows Co-author: Benjamin Silva, MD, MPH The Case A 4-year-old male with no significant past medical history presents with headache and vomiting. At that visit, his physical exam was normal. 9,3 (2014): 168-72.

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FDA’s Issues Draft Guidance on Accelerated Approval: A Substantial Evidentiary and Procedural Overhaul to this High-Profile Pathway

FDA Law Blog

Since that time, it was formalized in FDA regulations (21 CFR 314 Subpart H) in 1992, codified in the Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act by FDAMA (21 USC 356(c)) in 1997, revised by FDASIA in 2012, and described in guidance, most importantly, in the 2014 Expedited Programs for Serious Conditions Drugs and Biologics (2014 Guidance).

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