Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Partial nephrectomy preserves renal function better than radical nephrectomy for complex tumors, especially in younger patients with higher baseline eGFR. Nonetheless, the choice between partial and radical nephrectomy is influenced by multiple factors, including tumor complexity, patient comorbidities, and surgeon expertise.”

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Louisville Lectures

AUGUST 6, 2021

After, Dr. Wade evaluates literature related to new therapies and indications for medications in patients with heart failure. Regan Wade presents "Heart Failure Pharmacology" by first reviewing heart failure pathophysiology as it relates to pharmacotherapy.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said. Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The herald patch is seen in 50-90% of cases, and pruritus is severe in 1 in 4 patients. Interestingly this patient’s younger brother had a similar rash but didn’t complain as much. 2018 Sep 01; 98 (5):283-291. The rash is also called the rose-colored scale. This is an acute and self limited papulosquamous rash.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 12, 2025

Although on the surface these are unchanged from the 2018 version —recommending screening in all women 65 years or older and postmenopausal women younger than 65 years at increased risk for an osteoporotic fracture and finding insufficient evidence to screen men—an accompanying editorial noted a small, but significant, difference.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In 2018, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) reviewed Canadian family medicine training and determined it must evolve to meet contemporary societal needs. While political, professional, and regulatory interests interacted in public discourse, the voices and interests of patients were absent.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Dr.’s Vivek Murthy, Bridget O’Brien, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal sought to answer this question in a 2018 study. This is a peer-nominated group of academic clinicians renowned for their medical knowledge, teaching & communication skills, professionalism, and high-quality patient care. “How do they do it?!!” NEJM , JHM , JGIM ).

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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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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. A brief message from the principal investigator We studied close to a thousand patients with acute gastroenteritis in ten U. hospitals. N Engl J Med.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system. Additionally, our guests urge us to recognize the ways in which our patients are impacted by incarceration and to ask our patients about these impacts in order to better care for them.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In 2009, Catalyst’s drug Firdapse (amifampridine phosphate) received Orphan Drug Designation for Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (“LEMS”), and FDA subsequently approved Firdapse in November 2018 for the treatment of LEMS in adults with 7 years of Orphan Drug Exclusivity.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 17, 2024

We also commend and congratulate the legions of rare disease patient advocates and the leadership of the EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases (“ELF”) who championed the advocacy efforts that led to this important milestone. By Sarah Wicks & James E. Valentine & Frank J.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

FDA recognizes the potential of RWE to support regulatory submissions of medical devices and to inform benefit-risk analysis of such products, while assuring patients have timely access to devices. In fact, in 2018, FDA emphasized that leveraging the use of RWD and RWE in regulatory decision-making is “a top strategic priority for the FDA.”

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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. Summary Transcript Summary. How do you do that? Mary Lynn: Thank you.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Failure to list coconut as an allergen has also been mentioned in several warning letters (see, e.g., here ) and as the reason for several product recalls, including a recent Class I recall in April 2024 (see also, e.g., Class II recalls in 2018 and 2022 for listing coconut as an ingredient but failing to disclose coconut in the allergen statement).

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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

AUGUST 12, 2021

Yet, even with the first interchangeable biosimilar approval, it’s not quite clear when patients will see those savings. typically have launched with initial list prices 15% to 35% lower than comparative list prices of the reference products,” but this 15 to 35% is not a huge relief for patients given the high cost of biologics.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

MARCH 14, 2022

I was fortunate to know in advance I would not be matching, but having to manage patients and scrub into cases in between going through the process of applying to unfilled programs didn’t make things any better. My story isn’t one of not matching one year and then going on to match the following year. I actually failed to match twice!

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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. Pfizer, Inc. Department of Health and Human Services et al. July 25, 2022. Pfizer appealed to the Second Circuit.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

This draft guidance proposes updates to FDA’s Breakthrough Devices Program, which is outlined in a separate December 2018 guidance document. FDA intends to incorporate these updates into the December 2018 Breakthrough Devices Program guidance after considering public comment.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We noted that the draft guidance’s discussion on determining a device’s contact duration raised concern as it contradicted ISO 10993-1:2018, Biological evaluation of medical devices —Part 1: Evaluation and testing within a risk management process. the new draft guidance and ISO 10993-1: 2018) leads to more uncertainty for sponsors.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Janet Maynard, Director of this Office, highlighted in the press release that “[g]enetic metabolic diseases include very rare diseases that individually affect a limited number of patients. Drug development for these conditions has unique and complex challenges, therefore few treatments are available to patients.”

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PEMBlog

APRIL 22, 2025

While we pride ourselves on providing high-quality care for all children, we must acknowledge that the noisy, fast-paced, and unpredictable environment of the ED can be especially distressing for autistic patients. Advocate for transition planning resources as patients age out of pediatric care. 2018 May/Jun;79(3):17r11506.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ProCompression Socks Throwback pic from one of my 2018-2019 24hr call shifts I swear by Pro Compression socks! for scribbling routine notes and when doing surgery rounds throughout the day, I use the colored gel pens to keep me on track with patient updates. Happy December! Can you believe Christmas is only 17 days away?!?!

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 17, 2021

I am 11 hours into my shift and between physical and telemedicine visits, I have seen a total of 46 patients today AND finished all my notes! When I first applied in the 2018 cycle, the total I spent was $1910 ($1686 in the actual match and the rest during SOAP.reviewing my payment history now). Anyway, back to ERAS. Let that sink in.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, in January 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole and Ogden Memos. CRCC also requests such guidance should explicitly protect patients using cannabis for medical treatment. 21 U.S.C. § 812(b)(1). Merrick Garland, Testimony Before the Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations , (01:06:35) (Apr. 26, 2022).

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Historically, if a patient presented a paper prescription to a pharmacy and the pharmacy was unable to fill it, the pharmacist would simply return the prescription paper to the patient and the patient would carry the prescription to a second pharmacy. The proposed rule also just makes sense.

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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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FDA Law Blog

JULY 7, 2021

In March 2020, FDA issued a final rule that banned the use of Graduated Electronic Decelerators (GEDs) to treat patients with severe self-injurious and aggressive behaviors (SIB/AB), but did not restrict the use of these same devices for other purposes, like smoking cessation. FDA cleared 510(k)s for GEDs in the 1990s.

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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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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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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This announcement addresses one of the commitments in FDA’s Medical Device Safety Action Plan: Protecting Patients, Promoting Public Health. Use of the eSTAR template for 510(k)s becomes mandatory on October 1, 2023 (unless exempt as described in the final guidance ). In a statement released at the time, CDRH Director Jeffrey Shuren, M.D.,

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PEMBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Emicizumab (Hemlibra) was approved in 2018 for routine bleeding prophylaxis in hemophilia A with or without inhibitors. How to know if a patient is on it? Patients on emicizumab will have it listed on their medication list. Patients/caregivers should also be able to tell you if they are on emicizumab (Hemlibra).

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