The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 9, 2021

Rather than searching for obscure explanations for inequalities, we must instead recognize the ways that racism impedes health at both individual and structural levels. TEDMED 2015. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. The New Press: 2012. Link to talk. Roberts DE.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Ana Loloei & Allyson B. It is intended to reduce regulatory burdens on medical device manufacturers and importers by enhancing global harmonization in device regulation. The final rule emphasizes risk management activities and risk-based decision making. The new § 820.10

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The zero-sum medical day In many healthcare systems the Epic feature is turned on and health professionals are expected to respond. The problem is that doctors work in what I call a zero-sum medical day. While this may help the zero-sum medical day on one level, compensation models don’t necessarily fix the problem of human bandwidth.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25) What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. and it has been linked to rising rates of physician depression , doctor suicide , and medical errors.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

FDA-2015-E-2602, FDA-2015-E-2604, FDA-2015-E-2619, and FDA-2015-E-2615. Consequently, because both applications were approved at the same time, both applications represent the first permitted commercial marketing or use of the product or the individual active ingredients, as outlined under 35 U.S.C. l56(d)(1).

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

As someone who studied in the fields of public health, medical sociology, and biomedical ethics, I was impressed with how quickly the pharmaceutical and biotechnology arena caught up with what took many decades to occur in the context of the physician-patient relationship. What’s Next for Patient-Focused Drug Development? 25, 2014).

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2024

In other words, individuals may not be as vigilant about avoiding allergens if they only hear the benefits of AUVI-Q without understanding there may be safety consequences as well. Years ago, FDA had much more robust communications about promotional materials with sponsors of accelerated approval products.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

For CDER specifically, the division must discuss the proposed rescission with CDER’s Medical Policy Council prior to notifying the sponsor. The Medical Policy Council’s role, as described in the MAPP, is to discuss decisions to rescind to ensure consistency in policy implementation across review divisions. Total Requests Received.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

The United States filed a Complaint against Texas entities Zarzamora Healthcare LLC, Rite-Away Pharmacy and Medical Supply #2– and its Pharmacist-in-Charge (PIC), and part owner. attorneys’ offices since 2019, the Complaint seeks monetary and permanent injunctive relief ( see 21 U.S.C. §§ 832(f)(1) and 882(a)). 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. §

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

DDI exposures were considered incident if the individual was not exposed to a DDI in the year preceding cohort entry. or 7,498/63,834 individuals in the cohort were exposed to at least one high-priority DDI over 12 months in 2015-2016. 2) Hazard ratio for an adverse event (emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death).

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Myriad Genetics

MARCH 19, 2024

Colorectal cancer, once considered a disease of the elderly, is now increasingly affecting younger individuals. Further, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association , colorectal cancer is estimated to become the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among younger adults (ages 20 to 49) in the United States by 2030.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

These included how well physicians demonstrated respect, listened to individuals, explained information, and spent enough time with them. These outcomes were adjusted for variables including age, race, ethnicity, income, health insurance, educational status, and coexisting medical conditions.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Mullen — On December 9, 2022, FDA issued a draft guidance document on the Voluntary Malfunction Summary Reporting (VMSR) Program for medical devices. FDA began an initial VMSR pilot program in 2015. The VMSR Program allows manufacturers to bundle malfunction reports of “like events” together in a single summary report.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. It’s not a controlled substance medication. Eric: So I heard gabapentin is the 10th most commonly prescribed medication in the US. I also heard that if you look at all individuals in the US, about 4% of individuals are taking one of the gabapentinoids, 10% over 65.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Julianne: It’s interesting because I think I read somewhere that a finding in science often takes about, on average, 17 years to make it into medical practice. We’ll talk about is it in medical practice yet? And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). What’s up with Medical aid in dying in Canada? Eric: So again, the topic is going to be medical aid in dying in Canada. The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome Joel Weissman, who is a health services researcher and deputy director and chief science officer for surgery at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School. Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Very excited to be here. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Brand drugs, generic drugs, and medical devices alike have all been the target of state failure-to-warn litigation; in a recent case, OTC acetaminophen is the target. Interestingly, the Plaintiffs alleged that this duty existed when the mother was pregnant in 2015 even though the studies relied upon in the litigation are from 2021.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As many of us who are trainees in medicine, we go to different institutions throughout our training, medical school, residency, fellowship, wherever we end up for our careers. And so for me, I started off at one particular institution for medical school and went to another and noticed quite a few differences.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). Alex: Coming up we talk with three pastoral care workers who are inmates who have been volunteering in the hospice at the California Medical Facility prison for some time. So that touches you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. I just want to highlight some work. There’s a cost avoidance aspect to it, too.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Group 1 consisted of older individuals, mainly diagnosed in the hospital and with poorer COC. Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. And we have gone from 250 members at the end of 2015 to about 26,000 right now across the United States and a number of chapters that have grown. And then for medical education, I know they are doing a lot as well.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

No matter what your position on medical aid in dying (I’m ambivalent) or abortion (I’m pro-choice), this is a bioethics podcast, and I hope that we can all agree that the ethical issues at stake deserve a critical re-think. Today, medical aid in dying is legal in some 10 states, and illegal in others. . Summary Transcript Summary.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The rule established a new category of OTC hearing aids for individuals with mild to moderate hearing loss, allowing them to purchase hearing aids directly from stores or online retailers without the need for a medical examination, prescription, or fitting adjustment by an audiologist.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

Survey data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for motor accidents, measles, methamphetamine, and thousands of other medical issues. Medical errors caused by missed diagnoses, drug errors, hospital infections, and other factors kill and maim tens of thousands of Americans each year. Kennedy Jr.

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