Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said. Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to… Understand how they can better center patient experiences by engaging with, and conducting their own, qualitative research. She has advanced training in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Science. During this episode, we hear from Dr. S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

On June 9, Kennedy fired a panel of scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and later replaced them with some who have been skeptical of vaccines. Immunocompromised patients, despite having a somewhat lower level of protection from the vaccine, will also benefit from it, Terebuh said. Kennedy Jr.,

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 22, 2025

Davidoff shared lessons from the 2023 Maui wildfire response that physician leaders can apply to the recovery in Los Angeles and future disaster preparation. In 2023, Hawaii Permanente Medical Group personnel played critical roles in the Emergency Operations Center and in establishing mobile community clinic sites.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In particular, the article discusses FDA’s April 2023 draft guidance on pre-determined change control plans (which we previously blogged on here ) and whether such plans afford sufficient flexibility for AI/ML developers to innovate and improve products based on new data while also providing sufficient guardrails to ensure patient safety.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Describe the role of medical control in determining destination and goals of safe transport This episode is a co-production of the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center whose mission is to minimize morbidity and mortality of acutely ill and injured children across the emergency continuum.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The initial lesion is in the center of the following image: Here are some other pictures of the rash: The Diagnosis This is pityriasis rosea. The herald patch is seen in 50-90% of cases, and pruritus is severe in 1 in 4 patients. Interestingly this patient’s younger brother had a similar rash but didn’t complain as much.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 18, 2023

Results of an anonymous cancer patient and survivor survey conducted by a team from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center's Center for Translational Research on Cannabis and Cancer (CTRCC) will be shared at the American Association for Cancer Research 2023 Annual Meeting in Orlando.

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FDA Law

JULY 17, 2024

Peter Marks at James Valentine ’s FDA Rare Disease Town Hall session at the DIA Annual Meeting last month (see Pink Sheet coverage here ), this Hub is intended to serve as the Center of Excellence that we in the rare disease community have been calling for its establishment over the last several years.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Robotic nurses dressing mannequins and bed-bathing patients Delicate movement, like gently handling an elderly patient is traditionally the most challenging task to robots, who are much faster developing in intellectual tasks than matching humans in fine-motor skills. But there is undoubtedly impressive progress.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The industry reached a three-decade high in 2023, adding more than 650,000 jobs. As well as retaining top talent to meet the needs of Connecticut’s patient population. Administrative: Our front desk and back office team play a vital role in our organization as they are the first point of contact for patients.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the field will grow by 15 percent from 2023 to 2033 , which is higher than the average for roles that provide support to healthcare professionals. For medical assistant positions in CT, typical tasks may include: Interviewing patients about their symptoms and main complaints.

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Myriad Genetics

APRIL 15, 2024

4 In a recent presentation, Dale Muzzey, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Myriad, summarized the findings this way: “We followed up with providers regarding their patients who screened positive for 22q. 5 Clear Benefits for Healthcare Providers and Patients The benefits to a high PPV are, well, myriad. Such is the case with the 22q11.2

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FDA Law

DECEMBER 4, 2023

11, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). 6, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). Unusual Amounts and Dosages Dispensing high doses of opioids in quantities far exceeding the daily morphine milligram equivalent (“MME”) dose recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”). 21 U.S.C. § 829; 21 C.F.R. Holiday CVS, 77 Fed.

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PEMBlog

MAY 31, 2023

When we think of managing agitated patients we think of medicines – but that shouldn’t be our first option. However, medications can be adjuncts to non-pharmacologic means to help keep agitated children safe from harm. It is also episode 3 in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When FDA published the fiscal years (FY) 2023-2027 goals letter at the end of August, making known their commitments and planned initiatives for the coming years, we were both excited by many of the announcements, while recognizing the real success will come from how the Agency implements them.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This episode is a co-production of the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center whose mission is to minimize morbidity and mortality of acutely ill and injured children across the emergency continuum. It is also the final episode in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 13, 2025

1, 2023, sesame. Notably, coconut is now omitted, meaning it is coco- not considered a tree nut for allergen labeling purposes. This is a significant turnaround from FDAs historical position, prompting at least one FDA Law Blogger to wonder, FDA, do think you just fell out a coconut tree?

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Starting in 2022 with a patent certification requirement, both Jazz and Avadel have sued FDA over this drug, with Jazz most recently bringing suit challenging FDA’s decision that Avadel’s Lumryz (sodium oxybate) is clinically superior to Jazz’s Xywav (sodium oxybate) in 2023. This case followed. The Court held that it does.

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PEMBlog

MAY 17, 2023

Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. Why then do we persist with the “is it medical/organic or psych” question? It is also episode 1 in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents. We have developed a series of pain focused episodes.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

of adults in the state showed significant symptoms of anxiety or depression in 2023. Find a caring primary care doctor: As a direct primary care physician, I devote time to sit down with patients and learn about their lifestyles, hopes, desires, worries, and concerns. We all want to know how to stop fearing the future.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Learning Objectives Describe the clinical presentation, epidemiology, and complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in pediatric patients, including its atypical manifestations. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 18 Oct. Plus, well discuss whether M. So, what is it?

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Learning Objectives Describe the classic and atypical clinical presentations of Parvovirus B19 infection in pediatric patients, including erythema infectiosum, arthropathy, transient aplastic crisis, and chronic anemia in immunocompromised hosts. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. link] Macri, Angela, and Crane, Jonathan S.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) offers learning opportunities for new and experienced CDRH staff through the Experiential Learning Program (ELP). Submit proposal documents by email to ELP Proposal Submissions by September 5, 2023 at 12 PM ET.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 23, 2023

This blog provides an update on the DHT-related PDUFA VII goals that were targeted for completion in the first two quarters of FDA’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, including: By the end of Q2 FY 2023, FDA will establish a DHT framework document to guide the use of DHT-derived data in regulatory decision-makings for drugs and biological products.

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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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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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FDA Law

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In fact, as of November 2023, the CMS’s Standards and Certification’s (S&C’s) Quality, Certification and Oversight Reports (QCOR) CLIA Laboratory Lookup Database shows 17,206 CLIA-certified laboratories. We take this date with a grain of salt given the frequency with which these dates are missed and given the volume of comments filed.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 20, 2024

While ECPR shows promise in improving survival rates, particularly in pediatric patients with conditions like congenital heart disease, it is resource-intensive and carries significant risks. 2023; 187:109792. Now, some centers are using 15 minutes in their guidelines, but 30 is what I’m familiar with. Am Heart J.

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FDA Law

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Sasinowski — On December 12, 2023, FDA announced the creation of a new advisory committee specifically for treatments for genetic metabolic diseases, the Genetic Metabolic Diseases Advisory Committee, or “GeMDAC.” Drug development for these conditions has unique and complex challenges, therefore few treatments are available to patients.”

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FDA Law

JANUARY 5, 2023

To date, regulatory enforcement litigation focused on actual or imminent patient harm has taken a backseat to cybersecurity as FDA continues to update and implement its oversight framework. Combination products might be part drug, part device, or part software or hardware.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The statutory Accelerated Approval provisions were amended in 2023 as part of the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022 (“FDORA”) to, among other things, give FDA greater authority to expedite the withdrawal of approval of an Accelerated Approval product if clinical benefit is not confirmed post-NDA or -BLA approval. FDA-2022-E-3124 ).

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PEMBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Cristina Tarango, director of the Hemophilia Treatment Center at Cincinnati Children’s and Lisa Littner, Project Manager at Cincinnati Children’s who helped me research and write this post. How to know if a patient is on it? Patients on emicizumab will have it listed on their medication list.

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FDA Law

JULY 17, 2022

An example of such a drug is a single-use vial of an injectable cancer drug that is dosed based upon weight, and therefore might not be entirely used for a lighter weight patient. On July 8, as part of its annual physician fee schedule update for 2023, CMS issued a proposed regulation to implement the new refund.

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FDA Law

MAY 30, 2024

The 340B statute requires drug manufacturers to sell certain drugs at discounted ceiling prices to covered entities, which are defined by statute to include certain types of safety net hospitals, health centers, and clinics receiving federal grants. Bills are pending in other states, including Missouri and New York.

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