The Direct Doctors Difference

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As an update to that blog , we want to begin by highlighting again that according to Merritt Hawkins, the average wait time for a new patient appointment with a primary care doctor is 29 days, up 50% from 2014. Many docs are moving out of medicine and fewer medical students and residents want to pursue primary care.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

Subpart H) pathway in 2014, then issued it as final guidance in January 2019. FDA also describes how FDA will apply flexibility in applying this standard to different data sets on a case by case basis where either the condition is rare or is serious or there is a great unmet medical need. What do we mean? So how did we get here?

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As our readers may already know, FDA maintained three PRV programs to incentivize the development of therapies for underfunded diseases: the RPD PRV program, which sunset last month, the Medical Countermeasures (MCM) PRV Program, which sunset in October 2023, and the Tropical Disease PRV Program.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

Increased health anxiety has been a feature of the pandemic, with fears around leaving the home, social distancing, hand hygiene, and shortages of goods and medications due to panic buying commonplace. Despite the spike in prescribing of insulins, oral antidiabetic medications were not similarly affected.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Common variants associated with general and MMR vaccine-related febrile seizures. Nat Genet 2014; 46:1274. Vaccines don’t cause autism, but they might cause febrile seizures. The absolute risk is small, and genetic susceptibility likely plays a role in seizures after vaccines. So again, pretty darn low.

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