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GMP Training - Tack It Onto Employee Safety Training

Updated September 6, 2025

Sadly, the original pdf link broke.

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This FDA GMP training idea comes from David C. Markovitz in a training tip sheet entitled, GMP and Safety - Employee Safety and Customer Safety (pdf).

Here are my takeaways:

1. Take advantage of a captive audience by delivering GMP training to staff attending regularly scheduled safety meetings.
2. Start with employee safety and end with customer safety (GMP).

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NIH Complementary and Alternative Medicine Website

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From the NIH (National Institutes of Health): 

NCCAM's (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Time to Talk campaign encourages patients to tell their providers about CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) use and providers to ask about it by offering tools and resources — such as wallet cards, posters, and tip sheets — all of which are available for free at:   http://nccam.nih.gov/timetotalk/

More information for providers:  http://nccam.nih.gov/health/providers/.

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FDA Home Use Device Initiative

On the Designated Representative and Exemptee Blog - News On FDA Home Use Device Initiative: the FDA may suggest devicemakers create different written instructions for the patient, prescriber of the device and the person training the consumer on how to use the device.

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AMA Unveils Flu Assessment Tool

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Updated May 28, 2025

The original link broke.

You might also be interested in this AMA webpage:
https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/influenza-virus-flu-resources

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The American Medical Association (AMA) launched AMAfluhelp.org, a comprehensive Web-based patient flu health-assessment program. It walks patients through a series of questions to determine the severity of their flu symptoms based upon the latest Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention guidelines. With the influenza state of emergency with us, you can never have too many of these useful gadgets and widgets around. 

Previous Posts: FDA Search Widget of Fraudulent H1N1 Products Got Wine Flu? Flu.gov Updated by HHS - New Resources Added 

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FDA - New CDRH Event Problem Codes

The FDA just published "CDRH Event Problem Codes. This CDRH website (with enhanced device and patient problem codes) provides you a PREVIEW to the updates that will be going live July 1, 2009. The FDA provides this information in advance to help you familiarize yourselves with Event Problem Code updates BEFORE the new codes ‘go live’ and are accepted in MAUDE. It's important to note that on July 1, 2009 - CDRH will begin accepting the updated codes. DO NOT submit these updated codes prior to that time because they will be rejected. Until that time FDA says to continue to use the current Event Problem Codes. April 2, 2010 is the target date to reject all inactivated and retired codes specified in this FDA update. The CDRH Event Problem Code initiative results in part, with updates to codes to reduce manufacturer reporting burden, improve adverse event report quality, and improve FDA’s ability to respond to device-related adverse events. 

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Testing Approved Drugs In The Real World With Real People

Updated November 25, 2022

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You can still read about the same topic here:

New Arena for Testing of Drugs: Real World - TuscaloosaNews.com

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In the drug development process, drugs are clinically tested in very select patient populations. This means that once a drug gets approved, the drug is often given to quite a different kind of patient population, and the results of drug treatment could be different. For the big picture, read this compelling Star News Online article, "New Arena for Testing of Drugs: Real World." I find the story so compelling for the following reasons . . .

1. Patients, health care professionals, and the pharmaceutical industry bring their own unique health and business issues or needs to the table
2. It's ultimately about the patient, and there's a need to know whether approved drugs help or harm in the real world

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Log Into Google Health - Patient Assistance - Reduce Drug Costs

Updated June 7, 2025

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Your drugs and medications are way too expensive. Here's one way to cut your costs. Just log into Google Health, then "click on "Explore Online Health Services" in the left column. They can then scroll down and click on "Patient Assistance" and click the "link to profile" button to connect their Google Health profile to the patient assistance programs search from PatientAssistance.com," as reported in this Medical News Today news article, "Google Health Application Helps Users Find Patient Assistance Programs For Medications Using PatientAssistance.com." This is just one of many ways to reduce the costs of your prescriptions, by getting help from these patient assistance programs. 

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ICYOU - free healthcare 2.0 videos online

This is amazing! There's a whole community here at ICYOU contributing, watching, and commenting on any imaginable health topic. These are free videos. I've embedded the 'What is icyou?' video, so that you can get a better feel for this website.  

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