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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

Physician's Weekly

When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. Some of those providers are now seeking payment from her.

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Long Time Passing: Where Have All the De Novo Decision Summaries Gone?

FDA Law Blog

The De Novo process provides a regulatory pathway to classify novel devices for which general controls alone or general and special controls provide reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness for the intended use. The classification order identifies the special controls and therefore is extremely important.

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Telemedicine and the Prescribing of Controlled Substances After the End of The Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency: DEA Announces Two Significant Proposed Rules: Read the Summary Below, But Learn All the Details and More at HPM’s Webinar on March 23, 2023 (Details Forthcoming….)

FDA Law Blog

That emergency declaration is set to expire on May 11, 2023. While no “special registration” will yet be required to engage in telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances, DEA is proposing parameters to guide the practice of telemedicine encounters in a post-COVID world. 21 U.S.C. § 802(54)(D)(i). 21 U.S.C. § 802(54)(D)(i).

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

These factors may have impacted their diet, physical activity, and medications, thus impacting their creatinine levels and the inputs that we use for GFR. This reminds us that using race as a catch-all can shroud other factors (ex. structural racism) that more rigorously account for differences observed between groups. N Engl J Med.

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Texas invests $50M in psychedelic drug research to treat addiction

Medical Xpress

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. Some studies suggest it may help people stop using opioids or other drugs, even after just one session.

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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment

Medical Xpress

What is known is that special cells in the eye called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) detect blue light and send signals to the SCN to reset the clock. This achievement is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in life science, physics, and computer science.

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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

’ Though it often does not come with the attending salary, medical trainees are getting paid to perform a service, and hospitals provide retirement plans to these individuals. Saving $23,000 when the national average unweighted resident salary in 2023, according to AAMC data , was $63,800. Set it and forget it!

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