The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 Researchers say that the implant cannot provide any highly detailed vision – but it can help patients detect distinct patterns such as door frames and shapes. Globally 1.1 billion without serious interventions and investments by 2050.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples Show Notes by Sudarshan (“Sud”) Krishnamurthy April 4, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the checkered past of medicine and the advancements in the field that have occurred at the expense of the humanity of Indigenous peoples.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID pandemic disrupted global healthcare, impacting academic medical centers (AMCs) in the United States, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its effects on healthcare delivery and utilization. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data. compared to 2.1

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. Instead of a human, however, they used a mannequin designed for medical training.

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OCFM

OCTOBER 23, 2020

October 23, 2020 / Jack Forbush, DO / News Jack Forbush, DO Helpful video out together by one. Notice of Privacy Policy

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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. Understanding the evolution of physician's practice patterns across a career-span is crucial for workforce projections, policy planning, and shaping medical education.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention/Instrument: Eligible participants with ARIs provided demographic, epidemiologic, and symptom data, along with a nasal swab or oropharyngeal specimen. Conclusion: Since its emergence in 2020, SARS-CoV-2 was detected year-round and with a higher median age than other pathogens.

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 20, 2025

Myriad Genetics has been conducting the GeneSight Mental Health Monitor surveys since 2020 to learn about American attitudes towards mental health and related issues. The majority of these patients (54%) agree that genetic testing for mental health medications (known as pharmacogenomic or PGx testing) could reduce these concerns.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Dr Vinson: I introduced the phrase in a 2020 essay I published after our initial 2016 case report. Over half of respondents reported dismissive encounters with healthcare providers. PW: Who coined the term “cold drink heart”? What motivated you to characterize patient experiences with CDH and study the impact of trigger avoidance?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD, an internist and social epidemiologist who specializes in the care of women with chronic medical conditions and racial disparities in maternal health outcomes, and Dr. Caroline Sloan, MD, a general internist whose research focuses on how financial considerations are imbued into medical decision-making.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

Since the mid-1990s, our capacity for innovation has never stopped as hospitalists navigate a complex landscape of acute illnesses, interprofessional collaborations and the imperative to provide efficient, high-quality care. But these early systems often struggled with complex medical terminology and the natural flow of conversation.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  Grupp-Phelan, J., Mahabee-Gittens, E.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. These factors include a high-protein diet, muscle mass, creatinine generation, and certain medications. link] Tsai J.

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OCFM

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A research team from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics of Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland) has analyzed vaccination schedules published by 29 countries at the turn of 2020 and 2021, including members of the EU, UK, and Israel, with respect to the order in which they provided vaccination for different groups of citizens.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — On December 23, 2021, CDRH released as a draft guidance, Assessing the Credibility of Computational Modeling and Simulation in Medical Device Submissions (Draft Guidance). NIH, Computational Modeling (May 2020). Similar techniques can be used to model complex biological systems.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Providing communities with the resources they need to survive, such as educational opportunities, jobs, and quality healthcare, will eliminate the need for incarceration. Correctional officers act as gatekeepers, deciding who does and does not need medical care.

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BMJ

JULY 17, 2020

7 Moreover, medical professionals, health practitioners, and relevant academic institutions should proactively disseminate creditable news and information during such health outbreaks through mainstream social media channels. Int J Soc Psychiatry 2020 (May 21; published online). Front Commun ́2020 (June 12; published online).

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

Coincidentally, on the same day the post went up, Senator Rand Paul introduced the “Verified Innovative Testing in American Laboratories Act of 2020” or the “VITAL Act of 2020,” a new bill clarifying that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), not FDA, is to regulate LDTs.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 7, 2021

Gibbs — In the first challenge ever brought against FDA’s rarely used power to ban a medical device, a court found FDA overstepped its authority and overturned the ban. In April 2020, JRC and the parents and guardians of its patients petitioned the D.C. Walsh & Jeffrey N. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the ban.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Today we are coming back for more (or less given the content), talking about the following articles with their lead authors: First up, we talk with Ariel Green about her article in JAMA Network on preferred phrases a clinician may use to explain why they should reduce or stop the medication. That’s huge! Welcome, Ariel. Ariel: Thanks.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I ended up opening Noreta Family Medicine in 2020, a Direct Primary Care (DPC). The first barrier to integrating nutrition education into a visit is that like many of my physician colleagues, I was taught next to nothing about nutrition in medical school. I would argue that DPC is an escape fire for the larger primary care ecosystem.

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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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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

As a result of this decision, Semglee can now be substituted for Lantus prescriptions without the intervention of a health care provider in accordance with state substitution regulations. Thus, though Semglee is not new to the market, it is for the first time substitutable for Lantus without intervention of a health care provider.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

By Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Jeffrey N. Notably, two decision summaries were posted for De Novos that had been granted in 2020 and two were posted for De Novos granted this year. Timely access to these decision summaries will help manufacturers, FDA, and provide greater transparency to the public.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — On December 23, 2021, CDRH released as a draft guidance, Assessing the Credibility of Computational Modeling and Simulation in Medical Device Submissions (Draft Guidance). NIH, Computational Modeling (May 2020). Similar techniques can be used to model complex biological systems.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Philip Won & Gail H. In February 2020, FDA granted a de novo classification request (DEN190040) for software intended to assist medical professionals in the acquisition of cardiac ultrasound images and that included a PCCP for future software modifications.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 15, 2021

Shapiro — A determination of “intended use” is fundamental to FDA’s regulation of drugs and medical devices. This set off a firestorm, eventually leading to a new proposed rule in 2020, which was much closer to the one in 2015. By Jeffrey K. The proposal to delete this provision made sense , because the off?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  2020 Nov 12;383(20):1904-1905.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Importantly though, the Policy Statement does not provide any insight into the types of listings that do not meet the statutory criteria and thus would be considered anticompetitive. And FDA did not provide a substantive response to 5 Requests for Advisory Opinions seeking clarification of the issue.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert & Sophia R. Gibbs — For more than three decades, FDA has claimed that the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C Act) gives the agency legal authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices (see our prior post here ). Gaulkin & Jeffrey N.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Richard A. After two negative tests, you should consider a molecular test, or call your healthcare provider. If the third test is negative, you should test again with an antigen test, or get a laboratory molecular-based test, or call your healthcare provider.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Dave, MD, MPH , inquired how stressors may contribute to candidates failing the certification examination and Dr. McDonald stated that knowledge gaps were the primary cause, though ABIM provides safeguards to reduce stress like grace periods and consideration of compassionate exemptions for extraordinary life circumstances.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert FDA recently released 510(k) Third Party Review Program and Third Party Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Review which finalizes the draft guidance of the same title issued in December 2023. By Adrienne R. FDA), and to generate data in a format that would streamline FDAs review.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

The evidentiary recommendations and guidelines outlined in the Format are used by manufacturers and health care decisions-makers to inform coverage, policy, and reimbursement decisions for medical products. Please review the proposed revisions to the Format and provide your comments in this form by June 30.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

By Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Jeffrey N. Provided that a brief device description, clear intended use, and list or picture of all labeling claims are made, FDA aims to review the information and provide a response generally within 7 days.

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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. Once an individual reaches this annual cap, the insurer is solely responsible for covering the individual’s remaining medical expenses that year. Gaulkin & Jeffrey N. Wasserstein — The U.S.

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