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Detrimental secondary health effects after disasters and pandemics

Medical Xpress

Disasters and pandemics can affect the physical and psychological health of the people involved even after the events have occurred. These effects can include non-communicable chronic diseases.

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FDA’s Issues Draft Guidance on Accelerated Approval: A Substantial Evidentiary and Procedural Overhaul to this High-Profile Pathway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

FDAs Overview of When Accelerated Approval is Appropriate The new draft guidance explains, that there are two circumstances in which the accelerated approval authority would most clearly apply: (1) when the course of the disease is long or (2) the clinical event that is relevant for demonstrating benefit occurs infrequently.

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Q&A: Experts Urge Pediatric Advocacy Amid Worsening Climate Hazards

Physician's Weekly

Globally, flooding is the most common type of extreme weather event (EWE) and >500 million children reside in flood zones worldwide. Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood, affecting millions of people worldwide and nearly 4.7 How can events linked to climate change affect children’s mental health?

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

Has the usual collection of chronic diseases, paroxysmal afib, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, adult diabetes, a little anemia, a little edema, a little mild cognitive impairment. If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events.