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Grand Rounds June 16, 2023: BeatPain Utah: Partnering With Community Health Centers Within a Socio-Technical Framework (Julie Fritz, PT, PhD, FAPTA; Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

However, persons in low-income and rural communities have significantly higher odds of receiving a prescription opioid for a new back pain diagnosis. Use of nonpharmacologic pain treatments is lower in rural settings and for persons of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity.

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Life Sciences 2022 Year in Review

XTalks

Bluebird is also now back on track in evaluating its candidate gene therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD) after the FDA lifted a clinical hold on studies of the drug this month. Thus, in some cases, the expense of a gene therapy may be lower than the lifetime cost of treating patients with conventional treatments.