FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In fact, clinical studies estimate that as many as 23% of cats suffer from urolithiasis. To allow for some spread in individual RSS values while still providing an acceptable margin of safety against urolith formation, CVM’s recommended mean RSS and 95% CI limits are: Struvite: Mean RSS ≤ 1.8; Upper bound of 95% CI ≤ 2.5

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? 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. I’m guessing not. How to screen for hearing loss. Transcript.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Laboratory evaluation should be based on individual patient history and exam. We need to choose wisely and act prudently for our patients, as individual practitioners and as accepting inpatient psychiatric facilities. Routine laboratory testing does not need to be performed. 2015;34(5):812-818 Chun TH. Ann Emerg Med. Ann Emerg Med.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? 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. So how can we make it more integrated with other activities in the clinic?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Yannis Valtis, Ebi Okah, and Carine Davila, about research in their respective fields.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. laughter] Carmen, welcome to the GeriPal podcast! Carmen: Thank you.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is a variable measure, so use clinical judgment in deciding whom to treat.” The skinny label—whether utilizing omission or labeling modification—can continue to exist, allowing generic manufacturers to come to market earlier for non-protected uses of RLDs.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Clinical Case You are a senior resident working in the busy emergency department on an overnight shift. Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. Look for the underlying cause renal disease leads the list in kids.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David: Similarly informed by my clinical experience, really, actually, beginning in residency when I took care of a lot of sick folks in the hospital, particularly those with cancer and heart and lung diseases like these. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. Eric: How about you, David?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Meaning that an individual must inherit two copies of the mutation, so one from each of his or her parents, to be affected. And not all IEMs are included on NBS, NBS can miss individuals with IEMs.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

Livornese — The Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act (“FDORA”), enacted in December 2022, added a requirement that sponsors submit Diversity Action Plans (“DAPs”) for certain clinical studies involving drugs, biological products, or devices (codified at 21 U.S.C. § 355(z)(3) and 21 U.S.C. 360j(g)(9)(A)). intended use population.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. Eric: I think about it as the first one to address individuals’ curative therapy. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. Kate: Sure. So I’m in.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. I guess one question for providers is, as we dive into individual sense of dignity, and I guess threats to that dignity, is potentially feeling like we’re opening this box.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about palliative care for individuals with mental illness. It’s one of the core things that we think about palliative care is you got the physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms. There’s a Boguts case, a patient with anorexia who utilized medical aid and dying.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? Can someone describe for me what a stepped model is?

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And the government can do something about that?!?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive. ” Diane: Fantastic.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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