Sensible Medicine

APRIL 14, 2024

Last week, the US FDA held a meeting to decide if a new surrogate endpoint (Minimal Residual Disease or MRD negativity) could be used to give more & faster drug approvals for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. Multiple myeloma drugs can cost $600,000 per year of treatment, but if MRD is permitted for drug approval, I suspect we will see a deluge of uncertain drugs added to the roster, and the costs per year per patient will swell to a million dollars or more.

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Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 14, 2024

While focus in the U.S. has been on rising numbers of measles cases domestically, it’s Europe and Central Asia where the situation is at crisis level.

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Science Based Medicine

APRIL 14, 2024

Trying to limit pediatric COVID was literally the pandemic's worst sin for pro-infection doctors, warranting severe punishment. This is how desperately they wanted them infected. The post Dr. Vinay Prasad: It’s “Good” That Parents Who Want To Vaccinate Their Kids Against COVID Get Reported To Child Protective Services first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 14, 2024

England has launched its latest round of Covid-19 booster shots for those at the highest risk from the disease.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That’s just three, and to be sure, there are several others that have compelled me to shift my mind-set about what I thought I knew-I-knew for my work with organizations spanning the health care ecosystem.

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Emerging RN Leader

APRIL 14, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Last week, I gave the AONL Research Foundation Keynote at the AONL meeting in New Orleans. My topic was the Evolving Role of Nurse Managers in the New World of Work. To prepare for this presentation, we sought input from nurse managers through five focus groups conducted […] The post Improving the Work-Lives of Nurse Managers appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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KevinMD.com

APRIL 14, 2024

According to a recent report by the Stanford-Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis, “more than 600,000 people in the USA and Canada have died from opioid overdose since 1999, and a staggering 1.2 million more are estimated to die due to overdose by 2029.” The opioid crisis has reinforced hard lessons learned in Read more… Saving lives with naloxone: perspectives from the frontline originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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