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Feb 2020
26m 5s

Visual Snow; MS Drug Kickback Allegation...

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY
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In the first interview, Dr. Teshamae Monteith talks with Dr. Francesca Puledda about her paper on clinical and phenotypical descriptions of visual snow syndrome patients. In the second interview, Dr. Jason Crowell talks with Ed Silverman about the settlement over allegations a patient charity helped drug makers pay kickbacks to Medicare patients over MS drugs. You can read the STAT article here: https://www.statnews.com/2019/11/20/patient-charity-allegations-ms-drug-makers-kickbacks/

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