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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Proposed Changes to Medi-Cal Coverage for Undocumented Individuals Enrollment Freeze for Full-Scope (State-Only) Medi-Cal Expansion to Undocumented Adults – Freezes new enrollment for undocumented adults aged 19 and older, effective January 1, 2026. The policy would be effective January 1, 2026.

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Probiotics don’t improve outcomes in children with acute gastroenteritis

PEMBlog

We looked at every outcome we could think of, combined gastroenteritis severity score, duration and severity of diarrhea and vomiting, duration of fever, unplanned healthcare visits, household transmission rates, daycare and work absenteeism. N Engl J Med 2018; 379:2015-2026. N Engl J Med. 2018 Nov 22;379(21):2002-2014. Freedman et al.

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Infectious Disease Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Representatives from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) joined for a portion of the meeting*. ABIM’s website features expansive sections on research related to assessment and clinical outcomes. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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Hematology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

The questionnaire gathers information about clinical work and practice patterns, and ABIM uses the information to help update exam blueprints, develop policies for initial certification and MOC, and ensure adequately diverse representation of the profession in research.

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“TAP Dancing” Towards Faster Device Commercialization: CDRH’s Total Product Life Cycle Advisory (“TAP”) Program

FDA Law Blog

In FY 2026 – FY 2027, continue to support products enrolled in previous fiscal years and expand to enroll up to 100 additional products each fiscal year within existing OHTs or expand to additional OHTs, depending on lessons learned from FY 2023 – FY 2025 experience (i.e., up to 125 total products enrolled through FY 2025).

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Less than Meets the Eye: LDT Small Entity Compliance Guide Adds Little Insight

FDA Law Blog

The guidance restates the central premise of the final rule, i.e., that LDTs are medical devices and the clinical laboratories that design, manufacture and use them to test patient specimens are manufacturers. 803), Reporting of Corrections and Removals (21 C.F.R. § 806) and Complaint Files (21 C.F.R. 820.198). .

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

I will always, as always, say, you know, you’re welcome to do this in 2026. It always has clinical relevance to practice today. And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. Of course. We will step aside. Speaker 6 03:29 Andy. Like a song.

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