FDA Law Blog

APRIL 13, 2025

The Untitled Letter notes that the confirmatory trial for LYTGOBI is currently ongoing and has not been completed; therefore, clinical benefit of LYTGOBI has not yet been confirmed. Mirati) about a healthcare professional branded website for KRAZATI (adagrasib). But, where have we heard this all before?

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

It depends on the clinical situation. As I’ve been blogging about this for a couple months now, I’m really trying to find anyone who loves these things. The chart that I have in my book and that I use in practice and so many healthcare systems have adopted already, is the very best, cutting edge data we have.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: Well, before we talk about dysphagia and revisit it, which is also interesting, because this is our first podcast, I think on dysphagia, but we’ve talked about it before on GeriPal, in our blog. I think someone has a song request for Alex. Raele: I do. I have one. Change by Blind Melon. Eric: Why did you choose this? Eric: Fancy.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

Infrared thermometers, which measure temperature from the forehead or ear, are also prevalent in clinical settings. Mayo Clinic : Mayo Clinic’s website provides a rich repository of medical literature detailing different types of fever, their symptoms, and treatment options.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. What is it called?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas. I actually wrote a blog post about this when we were a blog. We were a blog? But I remember having a conversation with them.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. They don’t have an addiction clinic. Eric: And why Under Pressure. I’m going to start off with Katie. Right, Katie?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare. Working with our clinical decision support team and thinking about where that could be. About us – Dignity in Care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And I think also some of the stuff we’ll be talking about, when it comes to communication, I mean, a lot of the clinical encounter is listening to the music. Tell me about the clinical enc… How do you think the uncanny valley fits into medicine and communication training and skills? What is the uncanny valley? Eric: Yeah.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

FDA noted that clinical studies demonstrate that marijuana produces physical and psychological dependence, and abuse may lead to moderate or low physical dependence depending on frequency and degree of marijuana exposure. HHS conducted a two-part test to determine whether marijuana has a currently accepted medical use in the U.S.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare. So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 5, 2024

FDA further noted that clinical studies demonstrate that marijuana produces physical and psychological dependence, and abuse may lead to moderate or low physical dependence depending on frequency and degree of marijuana exposure. FDA/HHS concluded that marijuana does not meet schedule I criteria.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. My entree into healthcare is not in the academic space at all. I started blogging as a patient, just talking about my own story online like patients did back in the day. So unlike academic journals and elsewhere.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amber tells the moving story of how these findings led a clinical colleague, her chief, to question and change his behavior. As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) Amber: Well, simulation is pretending, so I think of the way I use simulation is in trying to simulate clinical care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 07:03 Yeah, it’s hard because you can also think about it, let’s say, because we see palliative heart failure clinics. So people like palliative cardiology clinics where honestly, heart failure management is a lot of symptom management. Are there any palliative care psychiatry clinics? Alex 40:57 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. Sonu: Prior to that it was illegal and actually in the criminal code, so not only illegal, it’s actually a prohibition in the clinical code. Bill, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Back then we were a blog and Ken’s post, which is titled, Survival from Severe Sepsis: The infection is cured, but all is not well, is still one of our most viewed posts on Jerry Powell. And then just going back to what Lauren was saying about Jack Washington’s paper in JAMA, that was such a seminal paper. Alex: Bye everybody.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I remember walking through San Francisco Airport with Bob, we just happened to be there at similar times, and saying, “Eric and I are thinking about starting a blog.” And you say, “Okay, that’s fine, but can it really … What about a real live clinical situation?” That is the first clinical use case.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. This is Eric Widera.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

DEA noted that “there is considerable variability in the cannabinoid concentrations and chemical constituency among marijuana samples and that the interpretation of clinical data related to marijuana is complicated.” Basis at 24. NPRM at 44,607. Basis at 7-8; NPRM at 44,614. Basis at 61; NPRM at 44,615. NPRM at 44,617. at 44,617, 44,619.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. In clinic, I’m helping what, hundreds or thousands. When I write, I learn a ton from that. And I tend to think of writing as my version of public health. Even if I write a scholarly article.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” I was a clinical ethics fellow at Baylor College of Medicine.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Bryanna Moore, who is a philosopher and bioethicist, and she’s at the University of Texas Medical Branch where she also directs the clinical Ethics Fellowship. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Does this issue ring true to you clinically? In your clinical, everyday reality, this comes up and say, like, does this ring true to you from your work in the icu, from your work with patients? It’s going to be really hard psychologically for the clinical team, the surrogate, to override that default. You’re in it.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2025

This year is shaping up a bit differently with all four OPDP enforcement letters addressing healthcare professional materials (including a speaker slide deck!!). Maximizing patient clinical outcomes and quality of life may ultimately minimize healthcare resource utilization. Healthier populations are more productive.

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