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Coronavirus vaccine: MIT Professor calls for immediate suspension of COVID mRNA vaccine https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/103155 The number of health professionals urging for the suspension of COVID mRNA vaccine is increasing. The call for withdrawing the vaccine is getting stronger. Recently, MIT Professor Retsef Levi took to Twitter to share the harm mRNA vaccines are causing in young […]

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This graphic represents into whose pockets/coffers where the $$ that the pt pays at the register ends up going.  I think that this proposal clearly explains the power of those companies who has the largest pots of money to pay lobbyists to convince Congress and members of the Administration as to what the big corporations […]

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States have better options than expanding Medicaid to care for their poor https://americansforprosperity.org/alternatives-to-medicaid-expansion/ More than a decade after the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, became law, most states — red and blue alike — have concluded that the law’s offer of federal money to cover Medicaid expansion is just too good to pass […]

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DEA Manual Changes Cause Uproar Over Pseudoephedrine Dispensing https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/dea-manual-changes-cause-uproar-over-pseudoephedrine-dispensing-1 A change in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)’s 2022 Pharmacist’s Manual is creating confusion about dispensing of pseudoephedrine products. Three key pharmacy groups—the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS)—sent a letter to Thomas […]

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Bureaucrats are telling your doctor how to treat pain. And patients suffer needlessly. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/02/16/fear-opioids-causing-patients-needlessly-suffer-severe-pain/11254143002/ Thanks to pressure from lawmakers, government agencies and policymakers who inserted themselves into the patient-doctor relationship, patients became the victims of the never-ending war on drugs. Jeffrey A. Singer and Josh Bloom Opinion contributors A decade ago, most people thought of Tylenol (acetaminophen) as […]

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This is a trailer of what is promised to be a longer video focusing on the realty of what – mostly chain pharmacists & techs – are dealing with on a day to day basis. Here is another very sad story of a mid-40’s female Pharmacist that did not get to finish her shift … […]

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I have read where reimbursement from insurance for services provided to pts… when a mid-level practitioner provides the service the healthcare facility that they work for are paid 85% of what they get paid … if a MD provides the same service.  BUT, mid-levels are not paid 85% of the pay/salary that a MD gets. […]

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I have often heard that those involved in our legal system have stated  that a GRAND JURY is so RIGGED that they could indict a HAM SANDWICH  ! according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath     It is often said that the exact phrase “First do no harm” (Latin: Primum non nocere) is a part of the original Hippocratic […]

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We Need New Laws To Protect People in Pain https://reason.com/2023/02/14/we-need-new-laws-to-protect-people-in-pain/ The CDC’s revised prescribing guidelines retain an anti-opioid bias and do nothing to reverse the harmful policies inspired by the 2016 version. “I hope I will remain alive for 2023 to see changes in pain control,” a woman I’ll call Nancy H. says in a […]

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