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OCTOBER 23, 2020

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physician (FP) scope of practice (SOP) has declined, with fewer physicians providing basic primary care services and fewer bridging the clinic-hospital divide. Population Studied: 5,006 US family medicine residency graduates from 2017 to 2020 with 58% females, 39% aged 35 or older, and 85% practicing in urban areas.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000845 The appetite for and ability to collect accurate digital patient-level data in low-resource settings has fueled numerous massive global health initiatives. As impressive as these large numbers may be, the question that is less often asked is “How much of that big data is actually helping us do better?”

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal. 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. And individual practice styles are fine.

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BMJ

JULY 17, 2020

A multilayered view of stigmatizing discourses lays the foundation for eliciting a series of suggestions for quelling stigma, to be implemented at the individual, community, and national levels, as suggested by the WHO. Int J Soc Psychiatry 2020 (May 21; published online). Front Commun ́2020 (June 12; published online).

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

19:05 Clarifying the “ethics vs science” argument and critiquing research techniques 22:00 Resurgence of race-based speculation in COVID-19-related research 25:57 Implantation of ideas about innate racial inferiority within medicine 28:32 Will removal of race from algorithms potentially harm our patients?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

The dehumanization of individuals of color at the margins of society by the healthcare system is not simply a thing of the past, and is certainly a persistent phenomenon. Cindy Gladue, Brian Sinclair, and Joyce Echaquan are three Indigenous individuals who suffered immense harm at the hands of the healthcare system.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In simple terms from a non-scientist, these gene therapies add functional versions of genes to patients that do not have them, and thus the idea is to have these genes function in the same way as they do in individuals without these disorders. they waned over time), even though patients would have benefited over a shorter duration?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. But how to talk to patients about the risk and benefits when starting.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2024

When patients with DMD present in the Emergency Department (ED), an understanding of the nuanced aspects of their care is essential for optimal management. Once patients become non-ambulatory, they often develop secondary complications like lymphedema, which further complicates their care.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

Valentine — For the last 13 years, this blogger has been at the center of what has now been dubbed “patient-focused drug development.” For 6 years, I served as a patient liaison within FDA in what was then called the Office of Special Health Issues. By James E. The practice of medicine was viewed as paternalistic.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The FTC expressed concern that patent listings that do not meet the statutory criteria undermine the competitive process, may disincentivize investment in developing generic and follow-on products, and reduce patient access to more affordable drugs thereby increasing costs to the healthcare system.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The ACA sets an annual cap on the amount that insurers can require insured individuals to pay out of pocket for their medical expenses. The ACA sets an annual cap on the amount that insurers can require insured individuals to pay out of pocket for their medical expenses. We previously blogged about this lawsuit last year.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Designed to incentivize the development of drugs for pediatric rare diseases where such development may not otherwise have occurred, vouchers may be granted for drugs for serious or life-threatening rare diseases where the serious or life-threatening manifestations primarily affect individuals aged from birth to 18 years.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Dr. McDonald explained that the LKA provides MOC points for questions answered correctly, but since ABIM is not an accreditation organization, it does not offer CME credit.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 8, 2023

The discussion paper described a PCCP as including (1) the types of anticipated modifications (SaMD Pre-Specifications or SPS) based on the retraining and model update strategy and (2) the associated methodology (Algorithm Change Protocol or ACP) being used to implement those changes in a controlled manner to manage patient risks.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The PR first sets out to establish that it has authority to regulate in vitro diagnostic “test systems” as devices, and not just the system’s individual components, such as reagents, instruments, specimen collection devices, and software.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

In its petition filed earlier this month, Pfizer challenges HHS’s interpretation of the AKS as “staggeringly overbroad,” contrary to the congressional intent behind the AKS, and a threat to “almost any activity that facilitates patient access to federally funded healthcare.” SCOTUS has until Dec.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 4, 2023

In a DCT, trial-related activities may occur in trial participants’ homes, at local health care providers’ offices, or in local clinical laboratories. This draft guidance builds on recommendations that FDA initially developed early in 2020, in response to the COVID-19 challenges (see our blog post on these recommendations here ).

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years after the enactment of the Hatch-Waxman Amendments the PTO interpreted the PTE statute to permit multiple PTEs, provided there are separate, but not necessarily different, regulatory review periods. FDA-2020-E-1840 (July 13, 2020). FDA-2020-E-1840 (Mar. 2020) , has not yet—and to our surprise—ended up in court.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Janet Maynard, Director of this Office, highlighted in the press release that “[g]enetic metabolic diseases include very rare diseases that individually affect a limited number of patients. Drug development for these conditions has unique and complex challenges, therefore few treatments are available to patients.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice?

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Regarding COVID-19, Tim Stenzel, Director of CDRH’s Office of In Vitro Diagnostics, has stated that “in-home testing and home collections is a top priority” ( June 2020 FDA Virtual Town Hall ); “obviously home over-the-counter tests including rapid antigen tests are a high priority” ( February 2021 FDA Virtual Town Hall ).

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Pearls: In 2020, American Indian and Alaska Native (Indigenous) communities experienced the highest drug overdose mortality rate of any racial or ethnic group, also surpassing rates among the non-Hispanic white population. The foundational literature in this area has furthered stigma and bias, especially towards Black birthing persons.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 14: Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives Show Notes by Alec Calac February 15th, 2022 Summary: This episode highlights how racism manifests in the built environment, and how community and individual-level efforts can mitigate these inequities. Be curious.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

She discovered narrative medicine, and to her, it was about finding and retelling individual and structural stories in antiracist ways. Listening to individual stories within the context of their structural stories is important. Listening to individual stories within the context of their structural stories is important.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

In a study published in Nature Communications , led by researchers at National Taiwan University (NTU) and National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), scientists used the deepest-ever two-photon calcium imaging in awake mice to directly observe how individual SCN neurons respond to light. The content is provided for information purposes only.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

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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. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The content is provided for information purposes only. However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages. Citation : Texas invests $50M in psychedelic drug research to treat addiction (2025, June 16) retrieved 16 June 2025 from [link] This document is subject to copyright.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. What’s in a story?

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Advanced Practice Providers in the Hematology-Oncology Workforce* Guinevere Z. The group discussed policy shifts and potential implications for graduate medical education and health equity.

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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.,

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This final guidance replaces and supersedes the March 2020 guidance entitled, “ Conduct of Clinical Trials of Medical Products During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.” In general, both of these guidances provide recommendations for sponsors to consider and analyze when a disaster (e.g., hurricane) or public health emergency (e.g.,

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