Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket. So, in 2016, she celebrated her 60th birthday at her local CVS. Kennedy Jr.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is recommended starting at age 9 to reduce risk of HPV linked squamous cell cancers, yet recent data shows that only 58.6% have been vaccinated by age 17. Secondary acceptance is agreeing to a vaccine subsequent to declining in a previous encounter. Child (e.g.,

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

This sentence was included in the 2016 approval of Exondys 51 for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the 2018 approval of Andexxa for reversal of anticoagulation therapy. So how did we get here? There is no question the last year has been unlike any other for all of us, but FDA has been steeped in “new” too.

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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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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By Wes Stubblefield, MD, MPH, FAAP ADPH Medical Officer H5N1 influenza, or “bird flu,” is a type of influenza that was first discovered in the 1950s. Since 2016, HPAI H5N1 has been detected in wild birds in the United States during screening efforts by wildlife authorities.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

I remember deep in the recesses, 2016, I think it was, a New England Journal piece came out saying that we need to reframe the debate about cost. What medical intervention saves health dollars, costs less than not doing it? Maybe vaccines, maybe. HPV vaccine. So they basically stayed housed. Margot: Yeah. That was me.

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