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Critics Suggest FDA Approving Aduhelm Will Erode the “Public Trust”: What About Patients’ Trust?

FDA Law Blog

I have witnessed it inform whether clinical trial results are clinically meaningful (or not) as well as the selection and even development of primary endpoints. What Dr. Cavazzoni lays out is the traditional way in which patients have informed drug benefit-risk decision-making: by setting the “clinical context” of the disease.

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Episode 309 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 23 – Anti-Blackness, Anti-Fatness, and Food Shaming

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Identify ways to navigate clinical interactions with patients while respecting them and affirming their experiences with food and fatness. Harrison currently serves as Editor-at-Large at Scalawag Magazine, is a co-host of the podcast “Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back,” and one third of the video podcast “In The Middle.” Time Magazine.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

Panelists Bill Gardner, Sonu Gaind, Leonie Herx have stated they have no relationships to disclose. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. And he writes about his experience living with cancer at billgardner.substack.com.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. And in addition, my work in palliative care, I also am a clinical ethicist. So the ethics is a little different, but my clinical experience is just the emotion is much higher in these instances.