FDA Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The tests are very accurate in detecting individuals with a relatively high viral load (symptomatic or not). PCR) test is considered the gold standard for actual diagnosis. On the minus side, a rapid antigen test may miss an infected individual with a low viral load (e.g., A positive result, however, is treated as a screen.

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FDA Law

MARCH 15, 2023

See Government Accountability Office, “ GAO-06-724 Mammography: Current Nationwide Capacity Is Adequate, but Access Problems May Exist in Certain Locations ” (July 2006). A reader may miss a cancerous lesion if the image quality is poor, resulting in a false negative diagnosis, which could delay treatment and result in an avoidable death.

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Healthcare Diagnosis Provider Individual 59

FDA Law

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Compared to the previous version, the new guidance document highlights that the Breakthrough Devices Program may also be applicable to certain devices that benefit populations impacted by health and/or healthcare disparities and to certain non-addictive medical products to treat pain or addiction.

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Medical Diagnosis Healthcare Clinic 53

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. We talk about: . The structure of federal agencies and how they coordinate.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. It is not only palliative care. Eric: Yeah.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And the government can do something about that?!? Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. And it was her conceptual, like incorporation of functional decline, some measure of functional decline along with a serious illness diagnosis that you’re utilizing here.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. The worse the structural factors are, the fewer individual factors you need to become homeless.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. As you know the healthcare system right now, we struggle. But in the healthcare system, they are not the same.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department.

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