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

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

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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. But what happens inside the SCN after receiving this light signal has remained largely mysterious—until now.

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CMS Finalizes Guidance on Medicare Part D Manufacturer Discount Program

FDA Law Blog

Below, we provide a high-level summary of the Final Guidance, focusing on the legal and regulatory updates from the May 2023 draft guidance. covered insulin product or vaccine). CMS also provides manufacturers a “special opportunity” to get a preliminary (i.e., state pharmaceutical assistance programs).

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Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. Really, across the board, there was a spike, and it seemed to have, seems to have come down from 2022 to 2023. Families have really checked up on their elders and really, again, sought to care for their elders in special ways during the pandemic.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. Maybe vaccines, maybe. HPV vaccine. Margot: Yes. Eric: But we should still do it. Margot: Right.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. We’re moving back to an earlier time, in a way, in which the locus of care wasn’t in these highly specialized hospitals. Bruce: That would definitely be considered a macroaggression in 2023. Bruce: Where was this?

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