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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. And I worry, I’m not sure that appealing to, we haven’t engaged in complete informed consent if we haven’t done this.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

In September 2021, Pallimed published our second commentary, which focused on the astonishing disclosure of an important conflict-of-interest (COI) by Dr. Roger Chou (5), who co-authored the 2016 Guideline, calling its integrity into question (4, 5).

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Analysis of U.S. Food and Drug Administration Draft Guidance on Clinical Trials with Psychedelic Drugs

Healthcare Law Insights blog

FDA explains that investigational products that use plant material, algae, or macroscopic fungi may be considered a botanical, and are covered by FDA’s December 2016 “Botanical Drug Development” guidance. For one, the use of an inert placebo may present a challenge.