Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Mental health and SUD bias impact the quality of ED care that patients with these conditions receive for physical health concerns, according to research. What the Patients Said According to the study, three key themes emerged: Negative encounters dominated. Isbell, PhD , of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and colleagues.

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My Green Doctor

APRIL 4, 2025

In This Issue : New Research: Teaching Patients about Climate Resilience Make the Pledge Today to Go Green Get Ready for Earth Day 2025 (part 2)! from 2000 to 2018 among people over 65 years old. Patients rely on medical professionals for guidance on how lifestyle choices impact long-term health. Contact us today! of total U.S.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Healthcare providers often struggle to treat patients with chronic pain. One potential solution is to facilitate patient access to programs that develop skills and confidence in managing their own care. The number of participants peaked in 2018 and remained stable thereafter.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Why is this important for patients and caregivers ? A brief message from the principal investigator We studied close to a thousand patients with acute gastroenteritis in ten U. We found that probiotics did not improve patient outcomes when compared to placebo. 2018 Nov 22;379(21):2002-2014. N Engl J Med. Freedman et al.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A new study has found that patients are increasingly likely to discuss mental health concerns with the doctor they often know best: their primary care physician.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

In May 2016, FDA released a draft guidance document titled “Technical Considerations for Additive Manufactured Devices” (see our blog post on the draft guidance here ), which was finalized in 2018 (see our blog post on the final guidance here ). Specifically, that it allows for fast production of “patient-matched devices” (i.e.,

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Bauer, Senior Regulatory Drug Expert — Our readers probably know that we value and advocate for patient engagement as an essential component in the development of medical products (see our firm’s commitment here ).

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

In May 2016, FDA released a draft guidance document titled “Technical Considerations for Additive Manufactured Devices” (see our blog post on the draft guidance here ), which was finalized in 2018 (see our blog post on the final guidance here ). Specifically, that it allows for fast production of “patient-matched devices” (i.e.,

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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

AUGUST 4, 2022

Recognizing that this out-of-pocket cost still represents a significant financial barrier for many patients, Pfizer proposed a Direct Copay Assistance Program for Medicare Part D beneficiaries using tafamidis. Under Medicare’s pricing formula, beneficiaries who take tafamidis are responsible for a copay of approximately $13,000 per year.

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33 Charts

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It comes from Automattic engineer Mike Shelton in 2018. Industrialized healthcare positions patients as units in clinical workflows. I love this concept of the people margin. Data can be precise, specific, absolute and is meant to represent the actions and behaviors of people and things.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

At that point, he was referred to pulmonology who started the patient on albuterol, manual chest physiotherapy, and a steroid inhaler with a plan for a fourth chest x-ray four weeks later. On arrival, the patient was febrile to 38.3C. Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS).

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Any healthcare professional would benefit from some Medelita gear, so head over to their website and treat the physician in your life. ProCompression Socks Throwback pic from one of my 2018-2019 24hr call shifts I swear by Pro Compression socks! Plus they smell amazing! I use black in 0.7

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. Step four is adjusting it for your patient. How do you do that?

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 15, 2021

FDA’s 2018 CFL Guidance seemed to signal to industry that FDA would be more flexible on Rx drug benefit claims. This claim is based on a real world, retrospective study of 11,000 patients, comparing Neulasta PFS and Neulasta Onpro. The banner presents claims that PFS resulted in a 31% increase in the rate of FN compared to Onpro.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Hardeman on police brutality and a public health agenda 24:00 Understanding this moment (COVID-19 and George Floyd) 29:00 The #SayHerName campaign and police brutality’s effects on women 33:00 Emmett and Mamie Till 44:00 Policing in healthcare settings 54:00 What can we start doing tomorrow? N Engl J Med 2020; 383:197-199.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The communication, however, warns patients and healthcare providers of the potential of NIPT to produce erroneous results, particularly false positive results (“these tests can give false results, such as reporting a genetic abnormality when the fetus does not actually have one”).

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Goldilocks zone).

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

The Board is not required to identify all drugs that meet the above criteria and may, in consultation with the advisory council and the commissioner of health, identify drug products that fall outside these criteria but otherwise could create “significant affordability challenges” for Minnesota’s healthcare system or Minnesota patients.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. However, Graves’s clients were physicians/physician offices — not individual patients in need of lab services.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Chemical characterization identifies and quantifies chemicals that may be released from the medical device, while a toxicological risk analysis (TRA) evaluates the risks to the patient associated with the chemicals identified. of ISO 10993-1:2018, but is extremely burdensome and not referenced in the related ISO 10993-18.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. However, Graves’s clients were physicians/physician offices — not individual patients in need of lab services.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Compared to the poorest neighborhoods, patients living in prosperous areas (OR = 1.97, 95% CI 1.65-2.34) It underscores the need to address healthcare disparities to improve access to care in economically distressed neighborhoods. A substantive association was found between the DCI quintiles and access to TKAs.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. Eloise, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

By Dara Katcher Levy — A win for patient access! Prescription drug and medical device Pre-Approval Information Exchange (PIE) now has specific legal protection allowing for sponsors to proactively communicate to payors certain information about products in development to help expedite patient access upon product approval.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The systematic review of peer-reviewed intervention was published from 2018 to 2023. The researchers recommended including community members in intervention design, healthcare systems, and policies. PW: How can clinicians improve the care of these patients? Of the 669 participants, the mean age from studies was 45.4

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Two out of three drug overdose deaths in 2018 involved an opioid – be it prescription opioids, heroin, or synthetic opioids. 6 As a result of these and many other actions, the death toll from opioid overdose fell by more than 4% between 2017 and 2018. 2 Opioids contribute a large share of this overdose crisis.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It’s all what we signed up for when we signed up on the dotted line to be in healthcare and palliative care. And it not only leads to better outcomes for patients, it leads to our better sustainability. So this is applicable to anybody in healthcare and actually any kind of team. The collaboration is actually the center.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. William: Thanks so much.

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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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Compared to the previous version, the new guidance document highlights that the Breakthrough Devices Program may also be applicable to certain devices that benefit populations impacted by health and/or healthcare disparities and to certain non-addictive medical products to treat pain or addiction.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. We’re going to go into how to talk to patients about this, because Emmy, you’ve done some research on it. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Alex: What did it changed to after 2018?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Isom continues the conversation around the intentionality of these structural processes and the language that frames the racialization of substance use in the United States by lawmakers, media, and the healthcare profession. Dr. Jordan and Dr. Isom both agree that simply offering treatment services and having an “open door” are not enough.

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