PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? In addition to CLMs, the differential diagnosis for these patients includes an airway obstruction, aspirated foreign body serving as an infectious nidus, and immunologic disorder.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 19, 2025

We have regularly posted on recognized prescribing red flags that pharmacists have ignored that resulted in administrative or civil actions by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) including against Gulf Med and Coconut Grove pharmacies in Florida and Zarzamora Healthcare LLC in Texas.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

FDA hailed its authorization of the Lucira OTC home test for influenza and COVID-19 as “underscor[ing] the Agency’s continued commitment to increase availability of accurate and reliable at-home diagnostic tests” ( April 2023 FDA Update to CDC ). HbA1c, diagnosis of a particular virus, etc.). through August 30, 2023.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective Describe the population of patients referred to a palliative care clinic and observe their healthcare utilization patterns. Study Design Retrospective chart review of patients seen in a palliative care clinic between June 2023 and August 2023.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The amended regulation would read as follows (revisions underlined): In vitro diagnostic products are those reagents, instruments, and systems intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, including a determination of the state of health, in order to cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent disease or its sequelae.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Attention to any toxidromes, any abnormal vital signs or mental status, eye findings, and neurologic examination provide the greatest help in narrowing the differential diagnosis. Hosp Pediatr (2023) 13 (1): 66–71 Visual and tactile hallucinations (as opposed to auditory) are frequently prominent.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Hot off the presses RCT in JAMA October 2023: Study that looks at 1000 female resident physicians at 26 sites that showed that coaching improved each outcome assessed (burnout, moral injury, imposter syndrome, self-compassion, and flourishing). We make a diagnosis. AlexSmithMD 1. It’s so different from therapy. But beyond that.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The systematic review of peer-reviewed intervention was published from 2018 to 2023. The researchers recommended including community members in intervention design, healthcare systems, and policies. Patients are in a very vulnerable state when they enter the healthcare setting.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In October 2022, FDA released the draft guidance entitled “Select Updates for the Breakthrough Devices Program Guidance: Reducing Disparities in Health and Healthcare,” as previously discussed in our blog.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Houck — In August 2023 the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) reschedule marijuana from schedule I under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to schedule III. By Larry K.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. Get an expert diagnosis, advice, and prescriptions — all available 24/7 from your home.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

The outlook on amyloid antibodies are looking brighter though in 2023. There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. Eric: PET scans.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? And so I think that’s why it has its moment now even in 2023. So I just can’t keep going.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. As you know the healthcare system right now, we struggle. But in the healthcare system, they are not the same.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How can we take our healthcare system, and really break it, and do it better for older adults who may not fit within, or may not have the conveniences of going into the clinic, or going to the hospital, all these things that we think about. We’re not paid, as part of a DRG, for any particular diagnosis.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This episode also covers what healthcare providers need to know about post-exposure prophylaxis, respiratory precautions, and managing occupational exposures. Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. So, making the diagnosis of pertussis starts with high index of clinical suspicion.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department.

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