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Jun 24, 2025 - Health

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Jun 12, 2025 - Health

Our Dignity Health Medical Group – Sequoia clinic at 799 Main St., Suite D in Half Moon Bay continues to offer the same urgent care services it did during the Urgent Care Pilot Program.  We're pleased to continue offering walk-in and same-day care for low-severity urgent medical issues, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Our Dignity Health Medical Group – Sequoia clinic in Half Moon Bay will provide the same services as we did during the Urgent Care Pilot Program. We are working diligently to extend these hours as quickly as possible. Please refer to the following frequently asked questions for information about our same-day services for urgent medical care.

Jun 6, 2025 - Health

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Jun 5, 2025 - Health

Dignity Health Medical Group – Sierra Nevada is pleased to announce the acquisition of Sierra Nevada Gastroenterology, effective June 9, 2025. The clinic will reopen to patients as Dignity Health Medical Group – Sierra Nevada on June 16, 2025.This acquisition ensures continued access to high-quality gastroenterology (GI) care for the Grass Valley community. Patients will continue to receive care from the same physicians and advanced practice providers they know and trust. Furthermore, they will now benefit from streamlined access to Dignity Health’s comprehensive network, including Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital and Dignity Health Urgent Care.  

May 30, 2025 - Health

When facing a life-threatening condition with no approved treatment options, patients and their families often find themselves navigating complex regulatory pathways in search of experimental therapies. Two distinct routes exist for accessing investigational treatments outside of clinical trials: the FDA’s long-established Expanded Access Program, also known as compassionate use, and the newer Right to Try pathway created by federal legislation in 2018. Understanding the key differences, advantages, and limitations of these options is crucial for patients confronting difficult treatment decisions. The FDA’s Expanded Access Program has evolved significantly since its formal establishment in the 1980s during the HIV/AIDS crisis. This pathway requires a multi-step process: the treating physician must contact the drug manufacturer to request the investigational treatment; if the company agrees, the physician then submits an application to the FDA; and finally, an Institutional Review Board (IRB) must approve the treatment plan. While this process may seem bureaucratically cumbersome, the FDA approves approximately 99% of expanded access requests it receives, often within days or even hours for emergency situations. The Right to Try Act, signed into law in May 2018, emerged from a movement arguing that terminally ill patients should have direct access to experimental treatments without government oversight. Under this pathway, eligible patients can work with their physicians to request investigational drugs directly from pharmaceutical companies, bypassing FDA review and significantly reducing paperwork requirements. However, similar to expanded access, drug manufacturers remain under no obligation to provide their investigational products. Eligibility criteria represent one significant difference between these... The post Right to Try vs. Expanded Access: What Patients Need to Know appeared first on Health and Natural Healing Tips.