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At Long Last, FDA Unveils Plan for Rare Disease Innovation Hub

FDA Law Blog

We also commend and congratulate the legions of rare disease patient advocates and the leadership of the EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases (“ELF”) who championed the advocacy efforts that led to this important milestone. By Sarah Wicks & James E. Valentine & Frank J.

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Wrapping up 2022! (Residency Life, Mom Life, and Blog Milestones)

Aspiring Minority Doctor

I'm just seriously so blessed to have such an amazing daughter and I'm even more so grateful that I was able to spend her special day with her and celebrate in a way that she wanted. She'll be getting her full drivers license soon and we're already talking about ACT/SAT prep with hopes to plan out college visits soon.

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4 Ways to Combat Dental Assistant Job Dissatisfaction that You Can Implement Today

CDOCS

Providing opportunities to learn new skills and advance their careers not only enhances job satisfaction but also improves the patient experience.<br Dental assistants trained in specialized procedures can enable the practice to expand its service offerings. Now is the time to change that! </p>

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Clinical Trials Join the Remote Work Revolution: FDA’s New Draft Guidance on Decentralized Clinical Trials

FDA Law Blog

mobile applications to capture patient-reported outcomes through questionnaires). FDA has also launched a series of five public workshops on issues related to DHTs in regulatory decision-making. DHTs include monitoring instruments (e.g., activity trackers, glucose monitors) and software (e.g.,

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? So I picked the Ed Sheeran song, The A Team, because it reminds me of our ACE team that goes around the hospital and cares for our older patients. And a light bulb just went off in my head, like, yes, this makes sense as a model for how we should care for more complex older patients.

Hospital 101
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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

We have two authors, books, op-eds, prolific authors, and today’s podcast is a two-part special. Rosanne: I think I was motivated by the number of times patients asked me to get rid of their pot-bellies, quite honestly. And my patients started coming in talking about why didn’t you ever recommend that to me?

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes. Poetry holds us in that liminal space so many of our patients are in. Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. Isn’t that what we always work with, with patients, with our colleagues, with ourselves? AlexSmithMD . Advance Care Planning.