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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Or, do we know anything even how common it is, serious illness, palliative care populations? Hearing aids, you had six big manufacturers of hearing aids. Five big manufacturers.

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

FDA Law Blog

This Assessment does not itself prescribe specific remedies for the ills it diagnoses; those are supposedly coming in the future Strategy document. The Assessment states that this prescribing is tantamount to doing direct harm, given the known and unknown risks and benefits of drugs in these contexts of use.

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FDA Approves First State Drug Importation Program Under 20-Year-Old Statute, But High Hurdles Remain

FDA Law Blog

This request must provide details about, among other things: The foreign seller that will purchase the prescription drug directly from its manufacturer, along with invoices, batch, and lot/control numbers to verify the sale and the units sold. See 21 C.F.R. 251.5; § 251.6(c). Customs and Border Protection (CBP) port of entry.