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Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus. A consultation was conducted with eight members of the Deaf community to complete the results.

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New Draft Guidance Provides Detailed (and Burdensome) Recommendations for Chemical Assessments to Support Medical Device Biocompatibility

FDA Law Blog

of ISO 10993-1:2018, but is extremely burdensome and not referenced in the related ISO 10993-18. Submit either electronic or written comments on the draft guidance by December 19, 2024, to ensure that the Agency considers your comment on this draft guidance before it begins work on the final version of the guidance. *KP By Adrienne R.

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DEA Cranks Out Updated Special Surveillance List and Proposed Regulatory Actions

FDA Law Blog

Updating the list, DEA consulted law enforcement officials, forensic laboratory authorities, intelligence groups, drug signature and profiling programs, and international organizations. Public comments must be submitted electronically or postmarked on or before July 3, 2025. 23,477 (June 3, 2025).

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? What are your values? ” I always get myself into problems.

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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

Physician's Weekly

Prior authorization mostly happens behind the scenes, almost always electronically, and nearly all requests are quickly, or even instantly, approved. The Right to Try Act, signed by President Donald Trump in 2018, entitles patients with terminal illnesses to try experimental drugs, but it does not obligate insurance companies to pay for them.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Singh devises ways to integrate technologies like telemedicine and artificial intelligence into electronic health records to alert doctors to potential prescribing errors or misdiagnoses. AHRQ-funded researchers such as Hardeep Singh at Baylor College of Medicine have chipped away at patient safety risks for more than two decades.