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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

Smartphone apps now include a variety of self-management tools for weight loss, physical activity, and chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Should state and local governments provide direct grants or tax relief to promising startups?

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FDA’s Issues Draft Guidance on Accelerated Approval: A Substantial Evidentiary and Procedural Overhaul to this High-Profile Pathway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

Surrogates are generally biomarkers, such as laboratory, radiographic, imaging, physical, or other measures that are thought to predict benefit but are not inherently measures of clinical benefit. one that is known to predict clinical benefit and could support traditional approval); reasonably likely surrogates ( e. ,

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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 maybe there is a need for a paradigm shift of moving away from screening for dementia versus a brain health type of approach. Eric 19:56 Okay, but I’m a primary care provider. Ana chodos, what should I be? Who should I be screening for? But I don’t.

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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.