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

FDA Law Blog

Importantly, the Hub is intended to establish a new model within FDA, which leverages cross-Agency expertise in providing guidance and conducting reviews for products for rare disease populations. clinical pharmacology/biomarkers, animal models, real-world evidence and other externally controlled comparisons [e.g.,

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Clinical Trials Join the Remote Work Revolution: FDA’s New Draft Guidance on Decentralized Clinical Trials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

In a DCT, trial-related activities may occur in trial participants’ homes, at local health care providers’ offices, or in local clinical laboratories. With regard to clinical trial visits and activities, the draft guidance provides examples of the types of approaches that may be possible with a DCT.

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

GeriPal

Number three, this specialized prepared environment that promotes safe mobility and cognitive stimulation and delirium prevention, so sort of environmental changes. And then we had half day workshops to get the frontline team just really excited about being the first ACE unit in the State of Alabama. Kellie: So ideally, yes.

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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. So this week we’re going to be talking about writing for the lay public, and next week we’ll be publishing a podcast on writing for healthcare providers. I give hour long talks on this and do three hour long workshops.

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

GeriPal

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. Alex: It sounds like that might be a part of the workshops that you run. AlexSmithMD . Advance Care Planning.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. Alex 33:17 Yeah, we had to workshop this. question used to screen for domestic violence. Jessica 34:30 I love it.