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The Relationship Between Cardiovascular Risk, Gender Identity, Sex Assigned at Birth, and Depression Among Transgender People [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

These barriers may prevent TG from receiving the necessary care to address chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease (CVD). Setting or Dataset: Secondary analysis of the CDC state-specific Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BFRSS) surveys conducted from 2019 to 2022.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

In our prior podcast with Ira Byock on psychedelics in 2019 we talked primarily about the potential of psychedelics. Eric, did you take your ketamine before this podcast? Eric: No, I did a little psilocybin. Eric: Thanks to our Ira Byock podcast. I forget how long ago that was. We’re going to talk about that. Alex: Yeah, yeah, it does.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law Blog

A May 2019 CMS final rule that would have required drug TV advertisements to disclose the WAC of the drug was challenged by a group of pharmaceutical companies and vacated on statutory grounds by the D.C. Last Thursday, the U.S. The actual policy proposals read like a wish list. Below, we summarize the key proposals of the HHS plan.