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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

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Regulating LDTs: A Long and Winding Road In what might sound to some like protesting too much, the PR invokes FDA’s longstanding assertion that IVDs “manufactured” by laboratories are medical devices and that clinical laboratories that develop tests are acting as manufacturers.

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The Wholesaling Prohibition (Potentially) Demystified? FDA’s Take on Supply Chains for Section 503B Outsourcing Facilities

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Outsourcing facilities are not exempt from FDA’s cGMP for drug manufacturers (as lightly tweaked via cGMP Guidance for outsourcing facilities ) or adverse event reporting requirements , and are subject to regular inspection by FDA. Section II at 2. Draft Guidance III.B.2(e) Draft Guidance III.B.2(d)

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

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And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time. I don’t see myself in that world.”

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Skinny-Label Lives to See Another Day

FDA Law

To that end, FDA approved the MSN ANDA without the modified dosing regimen and with the indication “to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death and hospitalization for heart failure in adult patients with chronic heart failure and reduced ejection fraction. Citing to “[b]inding Circuit law” in Bristol-Myers Squibb v.

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

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. James 00:32 Good afternoon.

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

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The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs.

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Joint Basis for FDA/HHS Marijuana Rescheduling Recommendation Unveiled

FDA Law

Controlled substances that have an accepted medical use are classified in schedules II-V based on their relative potential for abuse and physical and psychological dependence. or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions; and The drug’s relative safety or ability to produce physical dependence compared to other drugs.

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