FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

However, FDA states that this exemption does not apply to corporate or hospital laboratories that employ licensed practitioners, and the agency says FD&C Act otherwise contains no exception or limitation for devices manufactured by laboratories.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

This matter is the latest in a recent string of large monetary settlements between the government and health care providers involving employee diversion. Lax Controls Provided Employees with Opportunity to Divert. In short, the employees were provided the opportunity to not only commit the crimes but that they went undetected.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

According to Epic, the number of patient messages spiked 151 percent nationally from the period covering the first 11 weeks of 2020 through the end of the year. Why MyChart messages create a challenge for hospital systems So more contact and connection between doctors and patients seems like a good thing, right? Absolutely.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A careful history and physical examination are ways that we as providers can “see what’s going on inside the head.” Occult trauma Any trauma that is not seen on your physical (e.g. This includes scarring abnormalities, bleeds, and tumors. 2000; 55(5):616-623.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So a lot of these patients that I care for are at risk for mortality or poor prognosis in general, and wanting to know how do we still provide them with quality care without giving them too many pricks, too many titrations when it comes to insulin. So not only do they give you a number, they give you trends. Nadine: No poking and prodding.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The law directs Texas universities and hospitals to lead the research. A 2024 study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that military veterans with brain injuries saw major mental and physical improvements after just one ibogaine session. The content is provided for information purposes only.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. With their regular providers? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. In their communities?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. We didn’t think that there was something unique to the modality delivery in which palliative care was providing that care. Who will emerge victorious? Eric 10:25 Great.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023.11.004.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 11, 2021

DEA had issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in February 2020 (see our post here ). We note that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in December that over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the year ending May 2020, the highest number ever recorded during a twelve-month period.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.:

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

Emily: And so even in the pandemic, we’ve seen circumstances like this where hospitals wrote allocation policies that were going to give preference to frontline healthcare workers in hopes, right, that they would incentivize them to stay on the job knowing that they would be taken care of and because they had been working for the public good.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Eric 04:19 Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I must admit, though, sometimes it just feels off… inauthentic, as if it’s not a genuine desire to improve our lives as health care providers, but rather a metric to check off or a desire to improve productivity and billing by making the plight of workers a little less miserable. We were often the only ones left in the hospital.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so we do see hospital admissions for heat exposure and certainly cardiovascular and respiratory problems related to air pollution with climate change and also cognitive problems. Big heat waves in England in 2020, 2,224 excess deaths in the obits over the age of 65.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

So take a listen and check out some of these resources for healthcare provider loss, grief, and wellness: Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers. Craig: Thanks so much, Alex and Eric.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Bruce: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . it was April, 2020.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The emotional and physical fatigue associated with such immense loss of human life is leading to burnout among the very group that is required to address this disease. Blame is deflected to populations on the outskirts of society and used as justification to delay or fail to provide aid. 2020, September 20). 2020, May 8).

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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. You look at the physical body and you ask yourself, can you afford to lose diversity? I took my kids in 2019, 2020. So it’s 2020.

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