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It's Not About The Pus

StorytellERdoc

Several years ago, my daughter Emma introduced me to some videos on YouTube of a dermatologist from California who posted her sometimes shocking but always intriguing encounters with patients who suffered from a variety of dermatologic issues. Yes, white and brown and green and black pus still oozed from the majority of her patients.

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Ninth Circuit Upholds FDA’s Authority to Regulate Stem Cell Clinic Treatments

FDA Law

California Stem Cell Treatment Center, Inc., At the clinics, Defendants offer treatments that consist of extracting fat tissue from patients and, through a multi-step process, turning that tissue into a liquefied mixture of stem cells, other cells and cell debris known as Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF). 588, 566 (2019)).

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Critics Suggest FDA Approving Aduhelm Will Erode the “Public Trust”: What About Patients’ Trust?

FDA Law

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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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

His work also appears on All Things Considered, Marketplace, the BBC, 99 Percent Invisible, and Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting. In January of last year, Cole went to a Walgreens in Appleton, Wisconsin, to get refills on the medication he used to control his asthma. A few days later, he had a massive asthma attack.

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Preemies receive sucrose for pain relief—new research shows it doesn't stop long-term impacts on development

Medical Xpress

Sucrose is thought to activate centers of the brain that modulate pain and lead to the release of endorphins , but the exact mechanism remains unclear. Our findings are similar regarding a childs cognition and language , backing results from other studies.

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