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Dr. Davidoff: Applying fire response & recovery lessons from Maui to LA

Permanente Medicine

In 2023, Hawaii Permanente Medical Group personnel played critical roles in the Emergency Operations Center and in establishing mobile community clinic sites. Kaiser Permanente’s integrated structure supports rapid response and helps ease the challenges of delivering care during evacuations and facility closures.

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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

Artificial intelligence Already, dentists employ software to get insights into clinical decision-making, but AI is changing the face of dentistry, just like it is in many other fields. We’ve all been through this as a kid and childhood memories stick with us, just recalling this might send a shiver down your spine.

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The Wholesaling Prohibition (Potentially) Demystified? FDA’s Take on Supply Chains for Section 503B Outsourcing Facilities

FDA Law Blog

Under section 503B, drugs compounded by an FDA-registered outsourcing facility under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist can qualify for exemptions from FDA approval, labeling with adequate directions for use, and certain drug supply chain security requirements, subject to specific conditions. See 21 U.S.C. Draft Guidance III.B.2(e)

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The Rising Tide of Medical Waste: One Model for Improvement

My Green Doctor

Dilating and anesthetic eye drops are used routinely to treat patients in most ophthalmology clinics. The standard of care worldwide in clinics is to use multidose eyedrop bottles — meaning there is enough medicine one bottle to treat many patients. tons in the United Kingdom each year. hospital upwards of $240,000 over 5 years.

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From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

Clinical use is already accepted, new FDA approvals and new trials are underway targeting new niches, like pediatric surgeries. They have started a large-scale clinical trial involving 10,000 patients, expected to last two years, with plans to obtain CE marking by the end of 2024. But there is undoubtedly impressive progress.

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CDER’s Office of Compliance Kicks Off Annual Report Season with Rundown of 2023’s Major Public Health Enforcement Initiatives

FDA Law Blog

Drug Supply Chain. Recalls, warning letters to online pharmacies, and drug-related import alerts were key tools for OC’s efforts to safeguard the drug supply chain from adulterated products over the prior fiscal year. Clinical Trials. Of course, CDER is a massive organization and OC doesn’t do its work alone.

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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Elimination of (State-Only) Prospective Payment System Rates to Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics for Undocumented Immigrants – Eliminates Prospective Payment System rates to clinics for state-only-funded services provided to undocumented Individuals.