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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. The post New Report: U.S.

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Reframing conceptualizations of opioid use disorder treatment in primary care [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

SETTING/DATASET: We conducted 14 semi-structured interviews with 16 key informants with insights into opioid use policy in Canada and Australia. These included people with lived/living experience of drug use, clinicians, researchers, government health department staff, and individuals from non-government organizations focusing on drug use.

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FDA’s Issues Draft Guidance on Accelerated Approval: A Substantial Evidentiary and Procedural Overhaul to this High-Profile Pathway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

Second, given the potential for reliance upon smaller or shorter clinical trials (than would be typical for traditional approval), there may be less information at the time of approval about rare or delayed adverse events. However, the guidance acknowledges that such data may be unavailable in certain settings, such as for rare diseases.

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

GeriPal

I don’t have access to change the levers of government. And either of those could be given to the patient or an informant. Anna 43:15 I mean, yeah, as I’ve had, I think in general, primary care doesn’t have a lot of information about how to use these things. Ana chodos, what should I be? But I don’t.

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

FDA Law

Ordinarily, a public health initiative of such magnitude would have been governed by a transparent multi-step process featuring public meetings and drawing on external scientific expertise. In other words, as you read this, the Assessments findings and recommendations are getting baked into federal government policy, for better or worse.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. All of them offer the same array of services, really emphasizing social determinants of health and preventive services like falls prevention, chronic disease, self-management, caregiver training.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

At the time they were getting out of the vaccine business, finding it less risky and more profitable to produce drugs for chronic diseases. But the network has published nothing on covid vaccines, nor are any trials related to the issue listed on government websites. ” Asked for details, Hilliard did not respond.