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Grand Rounds February 2, 2024: Strategies for Improving Public Understanding of FDA and the Products It Regulates…Why Should We Care, and What Might We Do? (Susan C. Winckler, RPh, Esq)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Food and Drug Administration, FDA, Misinformation, Communication, Health Information Key Points U.S. They held roundtable conversations with experts to understand their thoughts on what the FDA might do to better communicate, and they conducted polls and held 25 individual interviews.             Speaker Susan C.

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Smart pharmaceutical and healthcare labels: Lets trace medicines from its origin

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It is worth noting that smart labels contain a transponder code which can be read by sophisticated devices, including radio frequency identification device (RFID) tags and near-field communication (NFC) chips. While most smartphones can read NFC chips, RFID tags can only be read by specialized receivers.

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‘Click’ chemistry used to tag proteins made by cancer cells 

Drug Discovery World

In their study, published in Nature Communications, the team developed a new method that identifies proteins released by a specific type of cell, even if the cells are in a complex environment with lots of other cell types. . The new method involves adding chemical tags to sugar molecules which are added to cells. Click’ chemistry

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Grand Rounds January 12, 2024: Design and Implementation of a Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Covid-19 Resources (Erin K. McCreary, PharmD, BCIDP)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The COVID Therapeutics Committee created communication materials to be transparent and to get buy-in. Tags #pctGR, @Collaboratory1 The post Grand Rounds January 12, 2024: Design and Implementation of a Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Covid-19 Resources (Erin K. Many patients did not answer the phone.

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Grand Rounds December 8, 2023: A Pragmatic Randomized Trial of the Jumpstart Intervention to Promote Communication about Goals of Care for Hospitalized Patients with Serious Illness (Ruth Engelberg, PhD; Erin Kross, MD; Robert Lee, MD, MS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The Jumpstart intervention is a communication-priming intervention. The research question Jumpstart set out to answer is can a patient-specific, clinician-facing communication priming intervention with discussion prompts effectively promote goals of care discussions between clinicians and hospitalized older adults with serious illness?

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Grand Rounds July 15, 2022: Overview of Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Public-Private Partnership and Lessons Learned (Stacey J. Adam, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Having the ability to use the resources from the public and private sectors as much as possible, having sufficient funding and staffing, and having clear communication were all quintessential to getting things running quickly. Across all is the need for clear communication, resources, and partnerships. Five agents are still in testing.

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BD partners with Biocorp on connected self-injection devices

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Medtech giant Beckton Dickinson (BD) has signed a deal with France’s Biocorp to use the latter’s near-field communication (NFC) tags in injectable devices. The Injay tag can confirm a complete injection and transfer that information via an NFC reader to a smartphone or tablet for review by a healthcare professional.