Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

So, in 2016, she celebrated her 60th birthday at her local CVS. On June 9, Kennedy fired a panel of scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and later replaced them with some who have been skeptical of vaccines. “I was there when they opened,” Beckham recalled. Kennedy Jr.,

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PEMBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This episode is a co-production of the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center whose mission is to minimize morbidity and mortality of acutely ill and injured children across the emergency continuum. Government. McEnany, Olutosin Ojugbele, Julie R. Doherty, Jennifer L. McLaren, JoAnna K.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

Her mission — preparing the next generation of diverse physician leaders in pediatric healthcare and mental health and creating partnerships between communities and academic centers — will be critical for eliminating disparities among minority populations. A Culturally Informed Approach to Supporting Suicidal Minoritized Patients.

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California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

Elimination of (State-Only) Prospective Payment System Rates to Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics for Undocumented Immigrants – Eliminates Prospective Payment System rates to clinics for state-only-funded services provided to undocumented Individuals.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

We noted that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had explained in its 2021 Gulf Med Pharmacy decision that prescribing red flags do not prohibit pharmacies from filling a prescription but are potential signs of diversion or risks to patient harm that pharmacists must resolve before filling. 72,694, 72,703 (Dec. and tramadol 50 mg.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Her mission — preparing the next generation of diverse physician leaders in pediatric healthcare and mental health and creating partnerships between communities and academic centers — will be critical for eliminating disparities among minority populations. A Culturally Informed Approach to Supporting Suicidal Minoritized Patients.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

19:05 Clarifying the “ethics vs science” argument and critiquing research techniques 22:00 Resurgence of race-based speculation in COVID-19-related research 25:57 Implantation of ideas about innate racial inferiority within medicine 28:32 Will removal of race from algorithms potentially harm our patients?

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

Valentine — For the last 13 years, this blogger has been at the center of what has now been dubbed “patient-focused drug development.” For 6 years, I served as a patient liaison within FDA in what was then called the Office of Special Health Issues. By James E. The practice of medicine was viewed as paternalistic.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 3, 2021

for failure to submit the required information following completion of a clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the drug dalantercept in combination with axitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (see FDA press release announcing the Notice of Noncompliance here ).

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Indeed, recent jurisdictional developments suggest that a wide of array of stakeholders could have standing to challenge the Agency’s attempt to restrict access to commonly used LDTs, including individual laboratories, hospitals, physicians and healthcare providers who routinely use these tests, and patients who depend on them.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

8,128,929 was submitted on December 8, 2016 (Docket No. FDA-2017-E-5106 ), and concerns FDA’s October 19, 2016 Accelerated Approval of BLA 761038 for LARTRUVO (olaratumab). According to documents in the PTO’s Patent Center, Lilly has not yet filed a response. 8,128,929 [] for [PTE] request under 35 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 3, 2021

for failure to submit the required information following completion of a clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the drug dalantercept in combination with axitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (see FDA press release announcing the Notice of Noncompliance here ).

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Component 1 was a disease state component – identified as “The Journey Forward: Ryan Murphy” or “The Journey Forward: Allysa Seely.” (Note that Allysa Seely is a Paralympian gold medal triathlete, and swimmer Ryan Murphy is a 2016 Olympian and gold medalist.)

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Houck — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) issued a voluntary practice guideline on opioid prescribing for clinicians treating chronic pain five years ago. (We We blogged on the final 2016 guideline here on March 17, 2016). 2016 Guideline. By Larry K. Proposed 2022 CDC Practice Guideline, 7,839.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 13: Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health Show Notes by Naomi F. Understand how engaged community-based work, centered on trust and accountability, has supported the health of communities served by Oakland, CA’s Asian Health Service.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

This discussion is hosted by Naomi Fields, MD, Chioma Onuoha, and Victor Lopez-Carmen MPH, as they interview Dr. Kozhimannil—the Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Rural Health Research Center.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Houck — On November 4th, CDC issued its revised guideline on prescribing opioids for pain as an expansion and update of its 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline. CDC received some 5,500 comments from patients, caregivers, clinicians and interested organizations to the proposed guideline update it issued in February. RR-3):1–95.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. A few data based publication links from Person-Centered Narrative Intervention Program of Research: .

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

FDA conducted the eight-factor scheduling analysis required by the CSA in 2016 and found that marijuana continued to meet the scheduling criteria for remaining in schedule I. 12, 2016); Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to Reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed. Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to Reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: . Eric: And why Under Pressure.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

And we have Kate Courtright, who’s at University of Pennsylvania, the PAIR Center. What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. Kate: These are very sick patients. Kate: Sure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. The collaboration is actually the center. Michelle 01:22 Thanks for having us today. DorAnne, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. A huge part of this decision rests on (1) her previously stated wishes, values, and goals (prior to the onset of dementia); and (2) the outcomes of surgery for patients with dementia. Summary Transcript Summary. She falls and breaks her hip.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. It was eyeopening to see patients in their own home. And so that really triggered my interest.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Eric: And what a research agenda that you’ve done, including one of the most seminal papers that we have in palliative care in lung cancer patients.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Increased quality of patient-provider communication, including offering behavioral counseling when needed, may avert unnecessary prescriptions. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. Tobacco and Marijuana Use Among US College and Noncollege Young Adults, 2002-2016. Available at [link]. Accessed 02/05/2020.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. So I identified myself, and was working in our local cancer center.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. And importantly the patient has to have capacity and they have to be able to take the drug themselves. Four percent. Leonie, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I love this article as it specifically discusses what’s wrong with “ need ” statements and how we can shift our communication and thinking to create space for deliberation about patients’ priorities and the best course of action. And it’s always centered on a need for a particular life-sustaining treatment. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in the NEJM titled “ Deciding on My Dimples ” which talks about her experience as a patient doing shared decision making during neurosurgery for resection of an astrocytoma. But my piece in the New England Journal is about being a patient right before awake brain surgery.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

We wondered how given that HHS and the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) conducted eight-factor scheduling analyses in 2016, concluding that there was “no substantial evidence that marijuana should be removed from Schedule I.” 12, 2016) ; Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed. 12, 2016).

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Since 2016, HPAI H5N1 has been detected in wild birds in the United States during screening efforts by wildlife authorities. For providers, it is highly encouraged to submit samples from hospitalized patients to a laboratory capable of identifying H5N1 if influenza is confirmed in the inpatient setting and H5N1 is suspected.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. It is appropriate for all patient populations, and it is developed specifically for the palliative care and hospice populations. Why do this?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

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