FDA Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

The assertion that prescribing immediate-release opioids longer than two or three months is a red flag may have originated with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain. Deborah Dowell et al., 1, Recommendation 3. Recommendation 1.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

As many as 40% of these children will receive a chest x-ray (CXR) during their ED visit despite clinical guidelines advising most of these tests are low value.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The diagnosis of a virus illness is generally made clinically with a history and clinical exam and does not require confirmatory testing. Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e., antivirals for influenza) or public health recommendations (e.g., isolation for SARS-CoV-2).

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Comments, including data from research and clinical practice, that provides evidence that an alternate maximum day supply (other than the proposed 30-day supply). Proposed practitioner recordkeeping obligations. Additional safeguards or flexibilities that should be considered with respect to the rule.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. Now, again, in the context of a busy clinical visit, you may not have the time to really go through it in detail. Eric 25:00 What do you do in clinical practice, Alison? Eric 13:23 Go ahead, Alex. It’s a really challenging area.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Mining Data The researchers mined electronic medical record data from the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink. A COPD diagnosis 1 to 10 years before cancer carried an aOR of 2.90, while diagnoses 10 to 32 years earlier still showed an aOR of 2.52.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So we know the individual actually has a swallowing disorder at that point, whereas proactive care is having more of that multidisciplinary approach, where the speech pathologist is part of the care team, we’re involved at the time of diagnosis, or soon after, and we can start doing our assessments.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Great to be back. Absolutely.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Mayo Clinic family medicine residents. Intervention/Instrument: Implementation of a social justice in medicine curriculum with an added focus on reproductive health and pregnancy diagnosis planning, including abortion.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone? What would be the benefit to myself, or hopefully for them to add a DSM diagnosis? I wonder why?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Anne: Which episode of the GeriPal podcast has most significantly changed your clinical practice? I think that has been my biggest change in my clinical practice as far as prescribing is thinking about how we can better care for individuals and think about the risks of Opioids too. Eric: I’ve heard that before.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Amber Barnato, who’s a palliative care physician and health service researcher, and she’s director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. So we did a perfect cross so that the race and actual primary diagnosis was perfectly matched across groups.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

They get some training in their master’s program on research and they get some training certainly on writing papers, but then you get into clinical practice and it’s like a language. What does this diagnosis mean to you? And sometimes social workers feel intimidated by it, too. And you feed the medicine in.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. We’ve all been taught through fellowship or through clinical practice about how to assess pain. You can listen to our prior podcasts on substance use disorder here , here , here , and here.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. What they want is things that are important to them, maybe live longer.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Not my normal clinical practice. I wish they were just a diagnosis. I recently had an angry patient and I had the opposite enactment. I was so concerned about wanting this guy to like me that I let our visits run over a bunch. I started bending over backwards. Definitely a deviation. Dani: Totally. Formulations are fluid.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues. Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. And also I’d rather know that I myself not going to be super thirsty. Alex 17:35 Can I interject here?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Our work clarifies clinical practice and public health imperatives relevant to mitigating CVD risk among [people with HIV] globally,” Dr. Grinspoon and colleagues wrote. Modeling for hard MACE, MI, and stroke provided generally similar results for most variables.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. And I said, sure. And I had that mortified look on my face of God.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. And that was one of the reasons that was appealing to us is that the conversation guide and could be delivered by lay facilitators in partnership with the clinical practice.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Camargo, Clinical Trial: Comparative Effectiveness of Cephalexin Plus Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Versus Cephalexin Alone for Treatment of Uncomplicated Cellulitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 56, Issue 12, 15 June 2013, Pages 1754–1762, [link] Liu C, Bayer A, Cosgrove SE, et al.

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