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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. He emphasized ABIM’s focus on patient-centered standards and promoting high-quality care, as well as ABIM’s commitment to ensuring a diverse governance that reflects the physician and patient population. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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A patient’s perspective: The evolving landscape of IBD

ABIM

With no family history and little cultural awareness of the disease, I was left wondering why or how this had happened to me. Oftentimes, digestive symptoms are considered too private or too shameful to discuss, even with family and friends. This burden of the disease is being felt by patients and healthcare providers.

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PhRMA Code Revised in Response to OIG Special Fraud Alert on Speaker Programs

FDA Law Blog

The PhRMA Code is updated periodically to reflect changes in industry norms or, as is likely the case with the latest revision, in response to political pressure or increased scrutiny from the federal government. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) (see our blog post on this Special Fraud Alert here ).

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Common Skincare Ingredients that Are Linked to Cancer

Health One Family Medicine

The laws governing the skincare and cosmetics industry are very limited. Be Smart With Your Beauty Products At Health One Family Medicine , we always place more emphasis on overall wellness, since a healthy body will automatically look beautiful. You read the ingredient list!

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The Most Engaging Decision You’ll Read All Year – Five Stars

FDA Law Blog

Koblitz — You know a court decision is going to be worth reading when the judges compare FDA’s regulatory governance of flavored e-cigarettes to a Shakespearean gaslighting. By David B. Clissold & Sara W.

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The Orphan Drug Act Almost Failed to Clear the Launch Pad Before Achieving so Much for Patients!

FDA Law Blog

I read the provisions of the new law and saw two provisions that seemed to be possible stumbling blocks that could be frustrating uptake of the new law: (1) a provision required that to be designated an orphan drug, a sponsor had to prove that it could not recoup its research & development costs during the 7 years of market exclusivity— essentially (..)

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Episode 200: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 11 – Racism, Redlining, and the Path Towards Reconciliation

The Clinical Problem Solvers

In contrast, de jure segregation refers to the involvement of federal, state, and local governments in creating, structuring, designing, reinforcing, and perpetuating segregation. Currently, low-income housing tax credit is a federal program distributed to housing developers who build housing for low-income families. JAMA Netw Open.