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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS: Childhood obesity is associated with physical and psychosocial comorbidities that negatively affect the child’s health and quality of life. This starts with recognition that obesity is a chronic disease. PW : How can early obesity prevention improve the future of pediatric care?

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FDA’s Issues Draft Guidance on Accelerated Approval: A Substantial Evidentiary and Procedural Overhaul to this High-Profile Pathway

FDA Law Blog

Background on Accelerated Approval The key concept, an ingenuity of FDA itself that has been around since the beginning of accelerated approval, is to allow earlier access to a promising therapy for a serious condition with an unmet medical need based on an endpoint that is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients.

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

FDA Law Blog

Rates of chronic disease are high, as is obesity. Incentives to motivate better nutritional choices and increase physical fitness would be welcome. Wise government officials will modulate their views as they learn new facts. Kennedy’s tag line is that he and Trump will “Make America Healthy Again.” To some degree.