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PAUL H. VOLKMAN MD, MORE TIME THAN EL-CHAPO: HOW AMERICA HAS DESTROYED AND LOST AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF DOCTORS WITHIN ITS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: PRT-1
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America’s problem with managing chronic pain and the addiction crisis https://www.axios.com/2023/04/21/americas-problem-chronic-pain-addiction-crisis The Food and Drug Administration’s attempts to manage the overdose crisis by reining in on the use of narcotics are weighing on patients with chronic pain, who say the result has been harder-to-fill prescriptions and heightened withdrawal and suicide risks. The big picture: The FDA […]
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Long after heyday, soda fountain pharmacies still got fizz https://apnews.com/article/soda-fountain-pharmacies-phosphate-drinks-85da13b45d7d0c94fb82d9d302b2584f KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) — The jukebox plays Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” as Malli Jarrett and Nathaniel Fornash take turns at the Griffith & Feil Drug food counter preparing old-fashioned, soda-fountain phosphate drinks. Soda fountains like this were hugely popular a century ago. Often located […]
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This is so sad, this is about 10 miles from our home. The pharmacy was in “downtown” Corydon. Right off the typical town square. Corydon was also the FIRST CAPITAL of Indiana. When I was first licensed there was a second pharmacy on the town square (Davis Pharmacy)… which closed years ago. With the closing […]
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FDA Panelists Slam Agency’s Proposed Opioid Trial Design https://www.medpagetoday.com/painmanagement/opioids/104117 Advisors said outcomes from an enriched enrollment study would not be broadly generalizable FDA advisors recommended that the agency reconsider its planned postmarketing trial design to evaluate the long-term efficacy and tolerability of opioids in chronic pain patients. Without holding a vote on Wednesday, the Anesthetic and […]
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MINORITY REPORT: THE DOJ-DEA PRE-CRIME, DATA ANALYTICS, PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION: Prt-1
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Cigna’s PBM unit launches new pricing plan amid scrutiny over rebates https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/cignas-pbm-unit-launches-new-pricing-plan-amid-scrutiny-over-rebates-2023-04-13/ April 13 (Reuters) – Cigna Group’s (CI.N) pharmacy benefit management (PBM) unit said on Thursday it will launch a new pricing plan that will include exact information on rebates, as pharmacy middlemen come under scrutiny by U.S. lawmakers for their opaque drug pricing practices. The […]
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If the TX judge’s ruling ends up prevailing on this one medication where: He conducted his own assessment of the drug’s safety, contrary to courts’ historical deference to the FDA’s scientific determinations — and in this case, a drug for which all available data since its approval in 2000 demonstrate its safety and effectiveness. Then […]
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Please read this entire article and SHARE IT, everything that I post on this blog is shareable, there are 14 share icons to different websites at the bottom of the post, and you will hopefully understand the “oddness” of its title. This article and my comments are not about pro-abortion or pro-life. As a healthcare […]
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