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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

Bill Easing Volunteer Rules for Retired Physicians Awaits Governor’s Signature What’s in the Bill: HB 346 streamlines volunteer opportunities for retired physicians at free health clinics is headed to the Governor for final approval. The 2025 Alabama Legislative Session concluded on May 14 at midnight.

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Lots of FDA Guidance, But Few Drug Manufacturing “Remote Interactive Evaluations” (We Would Call Them “Virtual Inspections”)

FDA Law

A phone call to FDA requested information about the number of Remote Interactive Evaluations (RIEs) that FDA has performed at drug manufacturing facilities since it announced in April 2021 that it would start using them as an alternative to on-site inspections. Raising the question: how does FDA define “all parties?”

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

The 80-year-old Ray Flynn lost his central vision entirely, but with the help of the retinal implant, he could make out shapes on the computer screen. Experts even say the eye is an ideal place to start for the first clinical use of CRISPR. How far can you see and hear? What about the smell of the flowers? Globally 1.1

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How Gut Health and Digestion Influence Cholesterol Levels

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Your digestive system doesn’t just process food; it also influences cholesterol screening levels in your bloodstream. The liver manufactures new cholesterol molecules and captures excess from circulation for excretion. LDL and HDL are two famous examples, carrying cargo to and from tissues and blood vessels as needed.

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We Have an LDT Proposed Rule!

FDA Law

For more than 30 years, FDA has asserted that it has jurisdiction to regulate LDTs as medical devices and clinical laboratories as manufacturers. These LDTs are performed in clinical laboratories regulated under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). This proposed rule is a long-time coming.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. I’m guessing not. Transcript.

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COVID At-Home Antigen Tests: If at First You Don’t Succeed Try, Try and Try Again

FDA Law

The 80% sensitivity requirement for antigen tests has yet to be explained either scientifically or clinically by the Agency. While this was a step in the right direction, only the tests whose clinical studies occurred during the Omicron surge had this stipulation included in their labeling. That could happen again.