FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Another rejected proposal was a definition of “vaccine” (vaccines are exempt from Medicaid rebates), which would have limited this term to a product that is administered prophylactically – i.e., to prevent rather than treat a disease.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Diagnosis in prescriptions The statutory definition of a “covered outpatient drug” excludes a drug used for an indication that is not a “medically accepted indication,” which is in turn defined as an indication that is approved by FDA or that is favorably noted in specified drug compendia. 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396r-8(k)(3) and 1396r-8(g)(1)(B)(i).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

THURSDAY, June 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A longtime vaccine critic hired by Health Secretary Robert F. is reviewing safety data in an effort to revisit debunked claims that vaccines may cause autism. Geier and his late father, geneticist Mark Geier, spent decades promoting the idea that vaccines are linked to autism.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In particular we spend a good deal of time talking about what this means for asymptomatic patients who may have an abnormal biomarker, which by the proposed new definition would mean they would now have Alzheimer’s disease. Everything is tied to the PET scan, to the amyloid PET scan, in terms of this kind of diagnosis.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Anyway, the skin is warm to the touch, it’s uncomfortable, it hurts with movement, and some patients can describe an itchiness or a tight feeling in addition to the pain.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. Seventeen of your patients are dead. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. You’re short on gowns and facemasks. Did I summarize that right, Darrell?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

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PEMBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

They perceive that the intramuscular vitamin k is a vaccine. Furthermore, parents who refuse IM vitamin k tend to refuse other preventative measures, including the Hep B vaccine at birth, prophylaxis against gonococcal ophthalmia, which is really bad, and subsequent routine vaccination. It doesn’t. It’s not.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , we explore pertussis, also known as whooping cough – a disease that remains a public health challenge despite widespread vaccination efforts. Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. link] UpToDate Yeh S et al.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. We do not have a director of national health preaching against the use of vaccination. Ours is much better. Kennedy Jr.’s

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