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At Long Last, FDA Unveils Plan for Rare Disease Innovation Hub

FDA Law Blog

Peter Marks at James Valentine ’s FDA Rare Disease Town Hall session at the DIA Annual Meeting last month (see Pink Sheet coverage here ), this Hub is intended to serve as the Center of Excellence that we in the rare disease community have been calling for its establishment over the last several years.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

However, the diagnostic approach used to determine changes in clinical management of renal disease (i.e. Additionally, research has shown that using symptom-prompted modifications to management, in the context of shared decision-making, can improve outcomes. September 12, 2018. J Epidemiol Community Health. link] Tsai J.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

I think part of it’s the math, but I think what really happened is, I think the story here is that in 2018, MD Anderson published this really landmark study by Dr. Reddy and her colleagues about going from IV Dilaudid to other to oral Dilaudid, oral hydromorphone, I should say, oral morphine and oral oxycodone. Is that right?

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

“It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” The Health Resources and Services Administration projects a 50% increase in demand for geriatricians from 2018 to 2030, when the entire baby boom generation will be older than 65. Johnson, for example, has advanced training in gerontology.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

In 2018, survey data revealed that only 41% of survey adult practices had the full complement of funded core team members, which is up from 25% of 2016. If they don’t, they know how to get to community resources. DorAnne 30:25 I also wanna make a shout out for pain and symptom management with social work and chaplains.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

William: So ASCO decided to make a high priority this year to redo the guidelines, which were originally released in 2018. So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. One of my good friends, Jerome Kim, is a community oncologist.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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