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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

To incentivize donations to these hospitals, the bill suggests creating a tax credit for individuals and entities to offset their state income tax liability. Pharmacy benefits managers would be further required to pass on 100 percent of rebates received from drug manufacturers to the health benefit plans for which they provide services.

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Patients Preferences and Difficulties with 5 Different Fecal Immunochemical Tests (FITs) [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: 2148 individuals aged 50 to 85 years scheduled for screening or surveillance colonoscopy. Individuals with errors in collection perceived statistically significantly more difficulty with collection. FIT manufacturers should develop very clear directions for patients. Setting: 3 academic medical centers.

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

The situation today is as follows: One company manufactures software for the radiology department which use a certain format of AI in their daily work. The latest – and perhaps biggest – hit was the announcement of ChatGPT-4o from OpenAI. Just as we’ve seen how live translation works with ChatGPT-4o.

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Why, Who, When, Where and More: New Draft Guidance on Notifying FDA about Discontinuance or Interruption in Manufacturing

FDA Law

Livornese — On February 6, 2024, FDA issued a draft guidance titled Notifying FDA of a Discontinuance or Interruption in Manufacturing of Finished Products or Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Under Section 506C of the FD&C Act. blood supply; and, Manufacturers of certain finished drug products marketed without an approved NDA or ANDA.

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HPM Grows Its Ranks of Directors, Counsel, and Associates as it begins its 45th Anniversary Year

FDA Law

While HPM prides itself on being the largest dedicated FDA law firm in the United States, it is small by design, so it is the quality of each of these individuals and what they contribute to the firm that is most exciting, said HPM managing Director J.P. Richardson has been promoted to Director.

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FDA Inspections: Lesson 1 – Interviewing Employees

FDA Law

A foreign food manufacturer that refuses to permit entry of [FDA inspectors} to inspect such factory, warehouse, or other establishment can be subject to an import alert under section 807(b) of the FD&C Act. FD&C Act 501(j). But what exactly constitutes delaying, denying, limiting or refusing an FDA inspection?

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How to Get Ozempic & GLP-1’s Covered by Insurance (or Save Big with Plum Health Direct Primary Care): The Ultimate Guide You Can’t Afford to Miss!

Plum Health

Book a Free In-Person Visit with Plum Health Explore Manufacturer Assistance Programs If you’re struggling to get Ozempic covered or if your copayments are still too high, consider looking into assistance programs offered by Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer of Ozempic. Ozempic injection pen. Save with patient assistance programs.