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. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

Janet Woodcock’s leadership, identified the need for more systematic patient engagement — a way to improve representativeness and be more proactive rather than reactive to interacting with patient communities. So, we crafted the Patient-Focused Drug Development, or PFDD, a commitment that was agreed to in PDUFA V.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

During this episode, we gained insight from special guests Dr. Margot Kushel and Mr. Bobby Watts about what brought them into their fields, how their work reaches the most marginalized, and what can be done at the community and structural level to address homelessness. Know your community resources.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Identify realistic solutions to drug policy reform that promote health equity among marginalized communities living in the United States. Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Understand how engaged community-based work, centered on trust and accountability, has supported the health of communities served by Oakland, CA’s Asian Health Service. Creating spaces where these experiences can be shared by patients as well as by practitioners can highlight the structural nature of seemingly individualized problems.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This specialized workforce has not yet been classified in health administrative data, limiting our understanding of their individual and medical practice characteristics. Study design and setting: Retrospective cohort study using multiple population-based health administrative datasets in Ontario, Canada in 2019.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

As healthcare providers, we must listen to our patients and use the power of our presence to see birthing people’s full humanity and empowerment. Pearls Black and Indigenous birthing people are 3-13 times more likely to die in childbirth, with the rate varying by location and level of investment in communities.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

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). And yet there are reasons for caution. Ethical issues , including colonization of psychedelics by big pharma.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The proximity to campus health clinics may also afford college students greater accessibility to healthcare providers for prescription medications such as stimulants which could end up being misused. Besides the risks to an individual, there are also population-level harms from normalizing certain harmful behaviors (e.g., 2019-1372.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. Because we don’t.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. Eric: Any other interesting tidbits or facts that we should know as providers about gabapentin or Lyrica dosing or pharmacology? I also heard that if you look at all individuals in the US, about 4% of individuals are taking one of the gabapentinoids, 10% over 65.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Usually I don’t put a lot of background on this podcast, but I got to … in November of 2022, Ava Kofman, along with ProPublica, published … well I won’t want to say great, published an article in The New Yorker that I think it was divisive in the hospice and palliative care community. Eric: Great. Now it’s 70%.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

And the other thing I would add is if you look at the number of board certified geriatricians, it’s grown as far back as I could see since 2019 where we were at 6670 and we’re now at 7413. Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that. ” I did love that line.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Basically, there’s a lot of variation amongst hospice providers.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Many states already have standing orders that allow for the dispensing of naloxone without an individual prescription and other public health initiatives to increase naloxone access.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. Individuals over 65 years of age at home Yes 23 (65.7) Immunization, 2019.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. Like if a person has an issue, struggle with alcohol, I’m not their alcohol provider, but I may be their opioid provider. For those individuals, how do you think about that?

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BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk. 16 Figure 1. Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Assessment and Reduction, Including Lipid Modification.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations Show Notes by Kiersten T. She also mentioned Dr. Mark Kuczewski’s sanctuary doctrine toolkit that focuses more on the individual level.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Farah provides clear examples from the Biden administration, in which having the most diverse cabinet in history was critical to building bridges, empathy, and inspiring others to feel included. The entire White community was getting affirmative action. And I’m going to actually read something that he said.

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