National Institute on Drug Abuse: Nora's Blog

AUGUST 14, 2023

Innovative projects answer NIDA’s challenge to implement substance use prevention in primary care astewart Mon, 08/14/2023 - 10:04 Nora's Blog August 22, 2023 Image ©Getty Images/ Maskot With nearly 110,000 people dying from drug overdoses last year, the crisis has not abated.

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Perficient: Drug Development

JANUARY 16, 2024

For example, a nursing home will order from a medical supply distributor and need to order patient-specific products that need to go to a specific patient room upon delivery. Many times, these facilities want to place patient notes within the cart to notify the receiving department where the products need to go when they arrive.

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National Institute on Drug Abuse: Nora's Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Creating Sustainable Homes for Prevention Services mfleming Wed, 04/05/2023 - 12:12 Nora's Blog April 12, 2023 Image ©Getty Images/ Willie B. Thomas The addiction and overdose crisis in the U.S.

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Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Nurse prescribing practices across the globe for medication-assisted treatment of the opioid use disorder (MOUD): a scoping review. dwf_admin Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:15 Source Banka-Cullen, S.P., Comiskey, C., Harm Reduct J 20 , 78 (2023). doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00812-y

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Advarra

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This blog highlights the fundamental components of an effective HRPP. coordinators, research nurses) by providing ongoing education related to human subject protections. What is an HRPP? We can trace the framework for HRPPs to the ethical principles established in the Belmont Report: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.

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Advarra

APRIL 30, 2024

This blog outlines what to look out for when preparing your investigator site files (ISF) for an audit. Both the medical licenses and nurse licenses need to be up to date. Maintaining complete and compliant documentation while managing the complex processes and interactions of clinical trial conduct is complicated.

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Molecular Design

JANUARY 12, 2021

> It’s been ages since my last COVID-19 post (How not to repurpose a 'drug') and I’ll kick blogging off for 2021 with a follow up to an even older post (SARS-CoV-2 main protease. Crowdsourcing, peptidomimetics and fragments).

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Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

JULY 5, 2023

Ontario is home to a dozen safer supply programs where primary care physicians and/or nurse practitioners work with other health care and service providers to embed safer supply prescribing within a broader model of care and supports for clients with complex health and social needs [14].

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Perficient: Drug Development

OCTOBER 16, 2024

I was exploring going into nursing, but I switched because I wanted to focus more on the business side of healthcare once I discovered that was a really exciting and challenging space to be in.” Driven by a strong desire to make a broad impact, Samantha pursued an undergraduate degree in public health. “You’re

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Agency IQ

JULY 12, 2024

For example, if a firm identifies misinformation on a personal blog, they can issue their targeted responsive communication on “several social media platforms where the firm has accounts for its medical product.” This raises questions about entities that are acting on behalf of another firm, or as part of a coordinated effort.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

JULY 21, 2024

The plaintiffs in that case— Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, et al v. Alliance for Nurses started as a Citizen’s Petition back in 2016, making its way to District Court when FDA took no action. Following the precedent on standing that the Supreme Court handed down in June in FDA v.

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Eye on FDA

AUGUST 8, 2022

In February 2020 I published a blog posting – Emerging Pathogens, Communications – that encapsulated my observations and learnings from my years work in the early years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the early 1980s. Source: CDC. What to Do. Every business, service or place of public accommodation is different.

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Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

13 However, participants also described barriers, including limited hours of operation, the need to attend the clinic several times a day and nurse-witnessed ingestion. 3 , 13 , 15 , 36 "Little research has examined barriers and facilitators to engagement in and adherence to safer supply programs.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Houck One of the most significant issues facing hospitals and other facilities is the diversion of controlled substances meant for patients by physicians, pharmacists, nurses and other trusted healthcare employees. By Larry K.

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Perficient: Drug Development

MARCH 5, 2025

This blog post explores the importance of inclusive customer service in pharmacies, provides practical examples, and discusses why drug companies’ web pages and mobile applications should be accessible. Inclusive customer service ensures that everyone can access pharmacy services and information independently and conveniently.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

APRIL 6, 2025

Before her legal career, Julie worked as a nurse practitioner specializing in neurosurgery and infectious diseases. Julie joins HPM after working at an intellectual property law firm, where she prosecuted and counseled clients on patent portfolios in the medical device and biotechnology sectors.

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Perficient: Drug Development

MARCH 5, 2025

This blog post explores the importance of accessible online services in pharmacies, provides practical examples, and discusses why drug companies’ web pages and mobile applications should be accessible. This efficiency is especially crucial when timely access to information can impact health and well-being.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

JUNE 23, 2024

This interpretation would prohibit delivery to any other location such as a DEA-registered practitioner’s office or a nurse working as an agent of the practitioner in the field who would then deliver the medication specifically to the patient’s home for administration to the patient. the “ultimate user”).

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 17, 2024

O’Lear is a criminal case, in which the defendant was convicted by a jury of healthcare fraud (billing Medicare and Medicaid for fictitious mobile X-rays at nursing homes) and aggravated identity theft.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This year’s Drug & Device Law Blog top ten decisions of the year reinforced preemption – the most powerful defense we can assert. Plaintiff’s repeated attempts to raise nursing home jurisdictional cases failed because the only the scope of regular preemption was at issue. They excluded bogus expert testimony under Fed. Preemption.

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Drug & Device Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In addition to its recent revamp of its “§510(k)” substantial equivalence clearance process for medical devices, (see our post here ), the FDA has also been active with respect to off-label communications – another regulatory area of continuing interest to this Blog.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 9, 2023

Since Levine is probably the worst prescription medical product liability decision to occur during the now 15-year lifespan of this Blog, when a citation like that appears, the result is not likely to be any good. 15, 2022), that we blogged about not too long ago , with the monstrosity that follows here. Levine , 555 U.S.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Some of us on the Blog are veterans of the original vaccine wars – those that preceded the enactment of the Vaccine Act, 42 U.S.C. 300aa-10, et seq.

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 13, 2022

Now, we’ve blogged before that a similar exception exists under many states’ common law that a warning need not tell physicians how to practice medicine in order to be “adequate.” Upon written request, stating reasonable grounds therefor, the Commissioner will offer an opinion on a proposal to omit such information. . . . emphasis added).

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 13, 2022

We offer this comment: those who choose to enter the nursing professions – RNs, LPNs, aides – deserve a special place in any afterlife your beliefs include. A painful injury with a long recovery time, but miraculous all in all. And we are out of the hospital (first the step-down ICU then a regular room) and six days into rehab.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 18, 2022

Today’s case is not a drug or device case, but a COVID nursing home case. We are not blogging on the underlying substance of the case but rather on plaintiff’s motion to remand after a snap removal. Certainly, if the Supreme Court had decided this issue, we would have blogged about it. The case – Carroll v. Jackson , 139 S.

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