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Churning out of insurance among patients with diabetes served in US Community Health Centers [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health insurance instability may be particularly challenging for patients with diabetes who need regular chronic care management to reduce the risk of diabetes complications. Study Design: Retrospective observational cohort study. 46,844 patients were diagnosed with diabetes during study period.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

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. in 2019, with 78% receiving radiation therapy and 22% undergoing surgery.

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The Most Engaging Decision You’ll Read All Year – Five Stars

FDA Law

This story goes back to the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits manufacturers from selling any “new tobacco product” without authorization from FDA. FDA published a June 2019 guidance , which stated that manufacturers would not need to perform long-term studies or submit long-term data in PMTAs.

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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. Psychedelics have been used by communities around the globe for hundreds of years (or more). Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Eric: Yeah.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. In fact, as Lauren Hunt found , the average likelihood that a person will be disenrolled from one hospice vs. another is two. AlexSmithMD.

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