Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

A final set of four prognosis groups were suggested using a single regression tree-based model utilizing the most informative predictors with data-driven biomarker thresholds. A total of 599 children were included; 205 (34 percent) reached the primary outcome of CKD progression. The C-statistic increased from 0.76

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation telemedicine tools have been proposed as an effective solution to optimize the care of the growing number of older patients with chronic conditions. However, little information exists on how to successfully implement these tools in the primary care setting.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 3, 2023

Genetic testing for hereditary cancers, such as breast, colon, pancreatic, and ovarian cancer, helps at-risk individuals understand their familial risk for these diseases and make informed decisions about next steps in care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We utilized AI tools in the qualitative software program Atlas.ti This analysis was part of a larger implementation study called PATHWEIGH, which provides a toolset embedded in the EpicTM electronic health record and other supportive services to help practices provide weight management to their patients. using thematic analysis.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Through food pharmacies, food insecurity screenings and innovative community partnerships, health care providers are ensuring patients get the nourishment they need to thrive. Family physicians play a pivotal role in combating food insecurity, serving as trusted advocates for their patients and connecting them to essential food resources.

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LEAD Physician

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Physicians must be leaders in their field to provide excellent patient care, manage a large team and coordinate between departments, and support their patient's overall health with information about prevention and maintenance. For example, a physician might be dealing with a patient who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

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.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Bauer, Senior Regulatory Drug Expert — Our readers probably know that we value and advocate for patient engagement as an essential component in the development of medical products (see our firm’s commitment here ).

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections. It would also be possible to go into concierge medicine and focus on VIP patients. This would require relocating and I am not aware of how much it pays.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

FDA notes that the distinctions between responsibilities for these groups and DMCs should be clearly defined, particularly with respect to access to unblinded information. FDA has dropped such restrictive language in the new draft guidance, and instead intends to refer “relevant and important” information.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

19:05 Clarifying the “ethics vs science” argument and critiquing research techniques 22:00 Resurgence of race-based speculation in COVID-19-related research 25:57 Implantation of ideas about innate racial inferiority within medicine 28:32 Will removal of race from algorithms potentially harm our patients?

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

According to the announcement, enabling patients to access medical devices beyond traditional clinical settings can help close the healthcare gap by delivering care “directly to patients, wherever they are – at home, at work, in cities, in rural communities.” and remote or wearable patient monitoring devices (e.g.,

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

This simple challenge was focused on putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients with dysphagia who are prescribed thickened liquids. We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Prescribing Red Flags In the Gulf Med decision, DEA emphasized that “[r]ed flags are circumstances surrounding a prescription that cause a pharmacist to take pause, including signs of diversion or the potential for patient harm.” The expert specifically found that: Patient A.R. The expert specifically found that: Patient A.R.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

This Draft Guidance focuses on the use of patient-level data from other clinical trials or from RWD sources. The goal is to select similar patients in the treatment and external control groups. The Draft Guidance also states that sponsors must include in their marketing applications relevant patient-level data for both arms.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

Under Minnesota’s Prescription Drug Price Transparency Act , manufacturers must submit detailed pricing information for any generic prescription drug with a WAC of at least $100 for a 30-day supply or shorter course of treatment for which it increased the WAC by 50% or greater over the previous 12-month period.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. They’re dedicated, committed, they’re there for their patients and they understand it’s really important. Who should get it if anyone?

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

From new initiatives to facilitate faster reviews for new indications under the Split Real Time Application Review (STAR) pilot program, to bringing new meetings under PDUFA goals, to continued support for rare diseases and incorporation of the patient voice, the goals letter revealed a good number of welcome announcements.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

FDA alleged that because the TV ads contained representations or suggestions relating to Emgality’s indication for use, they were required to include risk information as well adequate provision for the dissemination of the PI or a brief summary as required by 21 C.F.R.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Between 2007 – 2019, Black individuals experienced a higher death rate for opioid overdose deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. These narratives have vilified individuals who would benefit from comprehensive, person-centered substance use treatment, rather than incarceration and other adverse harms.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. They were stunned by the number of calls for lift assistance for older adults who had fallen.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

To incentivize donations to these hospitals, the bill suggests creating a tax credit for individuals and entities to offset their state income tax liability. These funds could be utilized for various purposes, including direct care, operational expenses, and facility maintenance or upgrades.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

There, as we explained back in July , Novartis argued that FDA’s approval of a generic ENTRESTO with indication information modified rather than simply omitted “represents a sharp departure from FDA’s statutory and regulatory mandate to require that a generic drug be the ‘same’ as its reference listed drug.” The Court noted that the D.C.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right?

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health. Similarly, Dr.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In some instances, however, this is only the first hurdle to make innovative products available to patients. In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) established a mandate requiring coverage for women’s preventive services including contraceptives. 300gg-13(a)(4).

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Eric: And who are the patients including in this trial, again? Kate: These are very sick patients. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Caveat as well that RCTs should not be placed on pedestal as the only answer- often patients enrolled in RCTs do not represent real world patients – observational studies do. For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The enrollment goals should be informed by the estimated prevalence or incidence of the disease or condition in the U.S. DAP Goal Rationales The sponsor must also provide a rationale for the study’s proposed enrollment goals, including information and analysis to explain how these goals were determined. intended use population.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Clinicians were randomized to 4 groups: Usual care Prognosis nudge – EHR prompt asking, do you think your patient will be alive in 6 months?

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Although overall enforcement against prescription drug ads has been relatively low, the OPDP Warning and Untitled Letters issued over the past year reflect OPDP’s interest in not only the substance of the communications, but in the audience processing of information based on the platform used. Individual results may vary.’

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Patients have all sorts of problems. We all focused on studying the outcomes for patients and families of our intervention and then the processes to get there. Whether it’s the consult rate or documentation of a conversation, hospice referrals, those kinds of things, and then patient outcomes, quality of life, symptom burden.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. I put a lot more information about Dr. Groopman and how to contact her in the show notes. In other words, which features of the disease individuals with the mutation show for these conditions.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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