The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

Researchers in 2019 developed a machine learning method to accurately quantify immune cells in the vicinity of oral cancer cells. Its importance was also highlighted during the COVID-19 crisis to bypass supply chains to meet hospitals’ demands. This can lead to earlier cancer detection and more targeted treatment.

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FDA Law

JUNE 3, 2021

Schlanger — While federal efforts to address prescription drug prices are debated, states have continued to pursue their own measures that require drug manufacturers and other entities in the drug supply chain to disclose information about pricing. See our previous coverage of such state laws here , here and here.)

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FDA Law

MARCH 1, 2023

By way of background, FDA first proposed using a QMM rating in its 2019 Report on Drug Shortages and Potential Solutions. The QMM rating is based on an evaluation of a facility’s quality practices and it is meant to be a leading indicator for detecting problems before they occur, such as a drug shortage.

Management 45

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Reported illnesses began just three days before Thanksgiving in 2017, but due to the unknown source of the turkey at the center of the outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not conclude the outbreak investigation until April 2019. Two days before Thanksgiving the following year, the CDC warned U.S. 20, 2026.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

sales of naloxone from a wholesale distributor to a harm reduction program) from certain requirements under the Drug Supply Chain Security Act. We previously blogged on FDA’s September 2022 guidance exempting and excluding specific naloxone transactions (e.g.,

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

We used the first six years of the dataset to form a predictive model using Holt-Winters forecasting (a time series predictive method based on trends and seasonality), and then compared the observed data from November 2019 to November 2020 with the model to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prescribing.

Primary Care 40

Primary Care Supply Chain General Practitioner Vaccination 40

FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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. Increase Transparency and Strengthen Supply Chain and Research Capacity. ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS.

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Manufacturing Supply Chain Patient-Centered Utilities 98