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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. These systems will considerably reduce the workload of – but not replace- human healthcare professionals. ” Patient points to lower abdomen.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health. AP News At My Green Doctor, we believe environmental sustainability should be part of every healthcare conversation—and every clinic’s business plan.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 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.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Think about the last time you attended a talk on communication skills or goals of care discussions. I’m guessing not. Meg: Thank you very much.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic

Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs. One thing is clear, it is not because people are using it for FDA approved indications. The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. We begin with a refresher on psilocybinwhat it is, how it might work, what conditions it may help treat (including demoralization), and how its typically administered. It’s there.

Illness

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DEA Concurs: Marijuana Meets Schedule III Criteria

FDA Law

MAY 5, 2024

Letter to DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, from Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine (Aug. 29, 2023). By recommending rescheduling to schedule III, FDA/HHS determined that marijuana no longer meets schedule I criteria under the CSA and that it does not meet schedule II criteria either. Letter to U.S. 21 U.S.C. § 812(b)(1).

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Joint Basis for FDA/HHS Marijuana Rescheduling Recommendation Unveiled

FDA Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

Houck — In August 2023 the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) reschedule marijuana from schedule I under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to schedule III. HHS forwards FDA’s analysis and recommendation to DEA. 21 U.S.C. §

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

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

All decisions are made in advance, the question that we are debating is how far in advance and what to call it. Completion of advance directives and billing codes for advance care planning as quality metrics. Among other topics. We can work it out! Links to a few couple items mentioned on the podcast: Objectives for Advance Care Planning.

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FDA-Approved Labeling: Is Enough Enough?

FDA Law

AUGUST 21, 2023

Thus, Defendants argued that FDA already required the warning for pregnancy, rendering the decision to use it during pregnancy to a healthcare professional, and that FDA had considered the risks of in utero exposure and rejected the addition of those risks to the labeling. Koblitz & Deborah L.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary To my teenagers, climate change is an existential crisis. It’s the end of the world as we know it. They decry the lack of serious attention and prioritization this issue has in the US. My kids ask – why don’t adults care about this issue the same way that they and their friends care about it? Ruth: Thank you.

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Buckle Up: DOJ Initiates Rulemaking to Reschedule Marijuana

FDA Law

MAY 21, 2024

The Attorney General also released DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) opinions providing the rationale and support for the NPRM. The 2016 reviews concluded that marijuana continued to meet schedule I criteria for having a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S., 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. §

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COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody

GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome back Lona Mody, who is a geriatrician, translational infectious disease researcher, and professor at the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor Va. Lona, welcome back to GeriPal. Lona 00:21 It’s great to be here. Peter, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Peter 00:36 A pleasure to be on Alex and Eric.

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Senator Durbin Has Questions About FDA’s “Operational Capacity” to Oversee DTC Prescription Drug Advertising Amid Workforce Reductions – Don’t We All?

FDA Law

JUNE 1, 2025

The bill would also mandate that drug manufacturers report payments to influencers to the federal Open Payments database, similar to current requirements for physicians. This year is shaping up a bit differently with all four OPDP enforcement letters addressing healthcare professional materials (including a speaker slide deck!!).

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Green Practice News: May 2025

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