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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

CFHA represents thousands of professionals across the country who are implementing integrated care —the coordination of medical and behavioral health care in primary care and specialty settings. It provides immediate, non-stigmatized behavioral health support at the point of medical care, often in the same visit. Kennedy, Jr.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field. Running trials in animals will take additional engineering and safety tests. percent, touch 1.5 percent and taste 1 percent.

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Wearable skin patch monitors hemoglobin in deep tissues

Medical Xpress

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed an electronic patch that can monitor biomolecules in deep tissues, including hemoglobin.

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Misplaced Training Dollars: Lack of funding for community-based training impacting the primary care physician pipeline Hospital-based graduate medical education (GME) receives significantly more funding than community-based programs, a disparity linked to fewer new primary care physicians entering the workforce. In 2022, only 24.4%

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Why do we remember emotional events better than non-emotional ones?

Medical Xpress

In a study published on January 16, 2023 in Nature Human Behaviour, Joshua Jacobs, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, and his team identified a specific neural mechanism in the human brain that tags information with emotional associations for enhanced memory.

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So Much More than Just Paperwork – The Importance of Design Controls for Device Start-ups

FDA Law Blog

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — For medical device start-up companies, understanding and successfully navigating applicable FDA regulations and requirements is an important part of the path to market. Part 830), post-market surveillance studies (Section 522 of the FD&C Act), medical device tracking (21 C.F.R.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.