FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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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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. It’s the physics of physician bandwidth: You can’t add something without taking something away. Absolutely.

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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. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork?

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As FDA explains on its website (which includes lists— here and here —of the more than 300 Accelerated Approvals (and withdrawals)): The FDA instituted its Accelerated Approval Program to allow for earlier approval of drugs that treat serious conditions, and fill an unmet medical need based on a surrogate endpoint. Patent Nos.

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Louisville Lectures

APRIL 13, 2018

Said Chaaban presents Interstitial Lung Disease by discussing the historical and physical history as well as lung exams. Disclaimers ©2015 LouisvilleLectures.org He then discusses risks, causes of death, disease progression and various treatments. Chaaban, M.d. For more information, see our citation page.

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PEMBlog

MAY 15, 2023

History and physical examination are critical components to any emergency department evaluation but are especially helpful in syncope patients. Your history and medication reconciliation will assist in determining acquired vs congenital variants. Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, 2015. Fleisher, Gary R.,

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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. In psychiatry, a lot of the anti-epileptic medications, we call them mood stabilizers and are used in bipolar disorder.

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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. Tamra: I wrote this… Eric: Thinking that the perceived role for inpatient physical therapist is a discharge consultant.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so when I had decided to socially, medically, and surgically transition, I had to really sit down with members of the department and really did a lot of in services. It was also the time that in 2015, that people who were trans and famous really put being trans on the map at that time, too. Eric 04:53 How is it public?

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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

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. Connection — The Integration of a Person-Centered Narrative Intervention into the Electronic Health Record : An implementation study.

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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 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. Here’s one, a senior resident presented a patient morning report and the physical exam said the patient had a scar in the groin.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

2015 Apr;22(4):441-6. Epub 2015 Mar 16. When it comes to physical examination of a child with a suspected cervical spine injury, remember, immobilize the c spine, either by hand, so another team member holding inline c spine, or by placing a collar, like an Aspen or Miami. Leonard JC, Jaffe DM, Olsen CS, Kuppermann N.

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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. It was this slow build, I would say. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient.

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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.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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 it is going to affect, if it hasn’t already, our food quality, the food that’s available, our medications. 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

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Published 2/5/19, updated 6/19/25) Rowdiest audience ever (at a medical conference at least). It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. Among medical trainees suicide is the number one cause of death today.

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