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Patients Preferences and Difficulties with 5 Different Fecal Immunochemical Tests (FITs) [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: FITs are an accepted method of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and patients’ preferences and difficulties are unknown. FITs would save nearly as many lives as colonoscopy with far fewer complications. FIT manufacturers should develop very clear directions for patients.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa.

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Interdisciplinary Case Report

CDOCS

Without this additional skill set and post graduate training I simply could not deliver the results that my patients deserve. & A healthy 46-year-old patient who has lived for over 30 years with missing bilateral maxillary incisors desired a fixed solution to his problem.

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Here It Goes, Here It Goes, Here It Goes Again: The Build Back Better Act (Redux)

FDA Law Blog

With 190 pages dedicated to prescription drug pricing reform, the program is ambitious…and complicated. As a threshold matter, the 2-year delay provision does not solve the core problem for biosimilars manufacturers: the lack of predictability that Build Back Better injects into biosimilar development.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

This is a, you know, board certified pediatric neurologist who’s been seeing this patient for years. But a lot of patients say, like Bob would: My doctors and I had already DONE all this checking. Dan: Another addition: Manufacturer coupons. Dan: We see it all the time. Claire: Bob isn’t thrilled by this requirement.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences. I know not all systems are set up to allow for that or facilitate that retrieval, which makes things a little bit more complicated when push comes to shove.

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