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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. Sponsored by Representative David Faulkner, the bill aims to provide more affordable health coverage options for farmers and self-employed agricultural workers who lack access to employer-sponsored plans. Key features of the bill include a 1.3%

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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

As we move into the tenth week of the legislative session, Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) lobbyist Megan Verdeja breaks down what’s happening at the Minnesota State Capitol and provides an update on health care bills. 1354 ( Senator Boldon ): On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the Senate Education Policy Committee heard S.F.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

The breadth of services provided by modern day medicine is profound. Video recordings were taken as providers administered perioperative routine eyedrops to patients and the eye drop bottle tips were cultured to assess microbial growth. The product manufacturers and vendors will need to be active partners as well.

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FDA Issues Proposed Order to Facilitate Minor Changes to Solid Oral Dosage Forms to OTC Monograph Drugs, but Such Changes May Come at a Price

FDA Law

FDA issued a companion draft guidance , which provides recommended procedures for companies to meet these requirements. Comments to proposed order OTC0000037 must be submitted by August 4, 2025, and comments to proposed order OTC0000038 and the accompanying draft guidance must be submitted by October 3, 2025.

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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. Health is a social good, and thus society has an obligation to provide health services that address the needs of all.

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FDA’s New Priority Voucher Pilot Program Has Landed: CNPV

FDA Law

Livornese — After teasing a new rapid review pilot program for the past few weeks, on June 17, 2025, FDA officially announced the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher (“CNPV”) program to expedite new drug and biologic (but not device or drug-device combination product) reviews. Tobolowsky & Michelle L. Butler & Deborah L.

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FDA Begins Granting Advanced Manufacturing Technology Designations

FDA Law

Schwartz In early April, Cellares became the first company to announce receipt of an Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) designation from FDA. The types of supporting data and information to include with a request depend on the specific method of manufacturing and its proposed context of use. Tobolowsky & Mark I.