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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

The 2025 Alabama Legislative Session concluded on May 14 at midnight. To incentivize donations to these hospitals, the bill suggests creating a tax credit for individuals and entities to offset their state income tax liability. What Happened: The bill was signed into law by the Governor on 4/15/2025.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

SENATE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS) COMMITTEE On Tuesday, March 18, 2025, the Senate HHS Committee heard a series of health care bills: S.F. The Minnesota Hospital Association, as well as some individual hospitals, testified in support of the bill. Listing circumstances under which an individual health plan cannot be renewed.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

operating rooms is regulated by the individual states; changing to multi-dose eyedrops will require administrative and legislative advocacy by eye specialists in every state and country. The product manufacturers and vendors will need to be active partners as well. The use of medications in U.S.

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Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

Physician's Weekly

Cost-sharing interventions and patient education can help improve access to GLP-1 receptor agonists for patients with obesity, according to an abstract presented at the AACE Annual Meeting 2025.

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HPM Grows Its Ranks of Directors, Counsel, and Associates as it begins its 45th Anniversary Year

FDA Law Blog

Hyman, Phelps & McNamara PC, (HPM), which will mark its 45thAnniversary on March 17, 2025, is pleased to announce that it is increasing its directors, counsel, and associates as it starts the year. Richardson has been promoted to Director.

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FDA’s Final Rule on the Implied Nutrient Content Claim “Healthy” Maintains Focus on Foods Rather than on Nutrients

FDA Law Blog

The proposed revised rule constituted a radical change from the original definition of healthy, which focused on the presence of individual (beneficial) nutrients. In contrast, the 2022 proposed redefinition focused on food groups recommended by nutrition science and the Dietary Guidelines (DGs), 2020-2025.

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Final Rule for ACNU Arrives in Time for End of Year but Not Much New to Celebrate

FDA Law Blog

In either case, if the consumer wrongly enters their information, e.g., and as a result obtains a drug that had they entered the information correctly, they would not have received, does that make the drug misbranded and the drug manufacturer responsible for distributing a misbranded drug? Further elaboration of FDAs view would be helpful.