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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Vaccine hesitancy is the delay in accepting or refusing vaccination despite the availability of vaccination services. It falls on a spectrum of vaccine attitudes and intentions, from those who recognize the importance of vaccines and accept all vaccines on one end of the spectrum to those who refuse all vaccines.

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Your First Line of Defense Against Illness

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 11, 2025

In this blog, we’ll break down what preventive care involves, explore its relationship with short-term health insurance, and explain why it’s a critical part of staying healthy at any stage of life. Think vaccinations, annual checkups, screenings for blood pressure or cholesterol, and lifestyle counseling. What Is Preventive Care?

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Fever FAQs (contd.)- Signs, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

Infrared thermometers, which measure temperature from the forehead or ear, are also prevalent in clinical settings. recent travel, exposure to infectious diseases, vaccination status, and any ongoing medical conditions or medications. Digital thermometers are commonly used due to their accuracy and ease of use.

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FDA’s Accelerated Approval of Biogen’s Aduhelm for Alzheimer’s: A Sign of Applying the Emergency Use Standard Beyond COVID?

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JUNE 7, 2021

However, the FDA guidance goes on to say in some cases, additional context is needed by specifically inserting a sentence in the indications statement that: no clinical benefit has been established. be “reasonably likely to predict” ultimate clinical benefit).

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FDA’s New RWE Guidance Provides Recommendations for Sponsors Conducting Non-Interventional Real-World Studies and Describes the Potential to Use RWE for Initial Approvals in One Limited Circumstance

FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Interventional studies are generally clinical investigations under the regulations and thus require an IND under 21 C.F.R. § An interesting addition in the final guidance is that it explains that the topics discussed “apply to any type of RWD, including data on products used in clinical practice under an emergency use authorization (EUA).”

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A Reversal on Sequencing? Proposed Legislation Would Allow Patenting of Naturally Occurring Genes

FDA Law

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Gibbs — A recent blog post focused on the potentially negative implications of the proposed Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) for manufacturers of generic drugs and biosimilar products. They argued that the legislation was necessary to spur innovation of new vaccines and therapies in response to emerging health threats.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Other family doctors only see patients in their clinics. There are lab tests, imaging studies, vaccines, and screening questions for people in different age groups, as well as for folks with certain lifestyle habits. The broad basis of our training allows family doctors to follow their interests, which is really nice!

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The MAHA Assessment’s Implications: Drugs (Part One)

FDA Law

JUNE 4, 2025

There are also drugs the Assessment identifies as being used off-label without high-quality evidence or for uses that are approved but without rigorous true placebo-controlled trials (namely vaccines) and/or with known safety concerns. We will continue to monitor these developments as they come.

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Why are Post-Approval Pregnancy Studies Post-Marking Requirements Rather Than Post-Marketing Commitments?

FDA Law

JANUARY 7, 2024

This review was limited to drugs with approved New Drug Applications (NDAs); biologics and vaccines were excluded. animal data or pregnancy exposure data from clinical trials) indicating a known or potential serious risk associated with drug exposure during pregnancy.

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CMS Publishes Grab Bag of Proposed Changes to the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program

FDA Law

JUNE 2, 2023

For 10 high-cost single source covered outpatient drugs selected annually by CMS, manufacturers would be required to respond to a so-called “price verification survey” by providing not only clinical and utilization information about the drug, but also costs of production, distribution, research, and marketing; revenue and profit; and ex-U.S.

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CMS Final Medicaid Drug Rebate Rule Details New Misclassification Penalties and Numerous Other Changes

FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

CMS did not finalize the price verification survey, which would have required manufacturers of 10 costly drugs selected annually to provide clinical information as well as information on production, distribution, research, and marketing costs, revenue and profit, and ex-U.S. pricing, among other things.

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Ready, Set, START – 7 Programs Selected for FDA’s START Rare Disease Pilot Program

FDA Law

JUNE 12, 2024

Sasinowski — Hyman, Phelps & McNamara (HPM) would like to congratulate the 7 rare disease programs selected for the inaugural class of the FDA’s “Support for clinical Trials Advancing Rare disease Treatment” (START) pilot program.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

On average, twice as many patients have contact with GPs than with all specialists (in offices and/or outpatient clinics) combined. Each issue I addressed above would require a systematic review to present the available evidence entirely, which is not feasible for a blog post.

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Every Claim You Make, Every Step You Take…CVM Will Be Watching You

FDA Law

APRIL 7, 2025

Zenrelia comes with serious warnings, including a boxed warning against the use of Zenrelia during vaccination. CVM also objected to the truncation of other information about the timing of vaccines in these promotional materials. Zenrelia promotional materials also included claims about clinical data that the Agency found actionable.

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Going beyond the surface material: A podcast episode on cellulitis

PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Camargo, Clinical Trial: Comparative Effectiveness of Cephalexin Plus Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Versus Cephalexin Alone for Treatment of Uncomplicated Cellulitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 56, Issue 12, 15 June 2013, Pages 1754–1762, [link] Liu C, Bayer A, Cosgrove SE, et al.

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Whoop! There It Is: A Pertinent Pediatric Pertussis Podcast

PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , we explore pertussis, also known as whooping cough – a disease that remains a public health challenge despite widespread vaccination efforts. Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. link] UpToDate Yeh S et al.

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Evidence v. Belief: What a Kennedy Appointment Could Mean to FDA and Public Health

FDA Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Referencing an interview with Kennedy from 2023, the Post says that his views on health “were a head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines.” He has equated vaccination to the Holocaust and argued that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and the Chinese.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Common variants associated with general and MMR vaccine-related febrile seizures. Vaccines don’t cause autism, but they might cause febrile seizures. The absolute risk is small, and genetic susceptibility likely plays a role in seizures after vaccines. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Nat Genet 2014; 46:1274.

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