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Commissioner Makary Charts a New Course for FDA at FDLI Annual Conference

FDA Law Blog

Livornese Dr. Marty Makary took the stage on Thursday at the Food and Drug Law Institutes Annual Conference , continuing the tradition of Commissioners speaking at this event, but with a tone and tempo distinctly his own. He also specifically mentioned rare diseases here , in addition to his example of late-stage illnesses.

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The MAHA Assessment’s Implications: Drugs (Part One)

FDA Law Blog

There are also drugs the Assessment identifies as being used off-label without high-quality evidence or for uses that are approved but without rigorous true placebo-controlled trials (namely vaccines) and/or with known safety concerns. That leaves us to speculate what the implications of this Assessment will be.

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Measles has been confirmed in Iowa, here’s how to protect your family.

Family Physicians of Cedar Rapids

We know how much parents have on their plates these days with school events, summer plans, sports, and simply trying to keep kids healthy and safe. thanks to vaccines but with declining vaccination rates, it’s made a comeback. How to Keep Your Family Protected Check those vaccines. It was nearly eliminated in the U.S.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

GeriPal

And the two were sort of intermeshed even to the point in the eighties, the thought was all dementia is Alzheimer’s or it’s some medical illness or combination of other stuff that’s not about it. That’s in my view as analogous as to any other illness. You need the plaques to have that illness.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

Wood, director of Northeastern Universitys Extreme Medicine Certificate Program, says its important for people to recognize the signs of heat illness and how quickly heat exhaustion can progress to heat stroke, when immersion in cold water is necessary to save lives. Heat stroke is the most serious heat illness, Wood says.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

Within an hour of receiving a covid vaccination in November 2020, Utah preschool teacher Brianne Dressen felt pins and needles through her arms and legs. While it’s possible that Nath’s patients suffered covid vaccine injuries, Marks said, their symptoms were so varied it was hard to characterize a possible syndrome.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Common variants associated with general and MMR vaccine-related febrile seizures. Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. In some cases, it’s actually their first manifestation of illness.

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