PHARMACIST STEVE

CDC launches new forecasting center for infectious diseases https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/cdc-launches-forecasting-center-infectious-diseases-84163365 A new U.S. government center aims to become the National Weather Service for infectious diseases — an early warning system to help guide the response to COVID-19 and future pandemics. The new Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics launched Tuesday. Its leaders say predicting the course […]

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“DEA practicing Medicine without a license requires a DEA Congressional Oversight Hearing” https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/dea-practicing-medicine-without-a-license-req-a-dea-congressional-oversight-hearing The DEA is Practicing Medicine Without A License. Making decisions between Pain Management Doctors & their Patients when it comes to prescribing Opioid Pain Medicine due to the Addiction Crisis. Pain Patients are suffering & Committing Suicide and not permitted to make […]

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UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES… how many pts have been forced into getting ESI (Epidural Spinal Inj) in order to have the physician to write the a Rx for oral opiates,  when the ESI provide the pt little/no relief.  The FDA and the Pharma ( Upjohn) that makes the corticosteroid DOES NOT RECOMMEND that corticosteroids should be used […]

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I find it very interesting that the “expert” ( Andrew Kolodny) for the plaintiff  “broke down how HE BELIEVES that the companies named – among others – collaborated in the 1980’s and 1990’s to increase prescriptions for opioids across America  and ESPECIALLY IN WEST VIRGINIA.” So the plaintiff appears to be totally counting on and […]

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Hello,  I have been disabled for over 10ys. I have lived in the same place and gone to the same pharmacy and received the same prescription for the duration. Recently I went to pick up my monthly prescription and was told because I had picked it up early a few months prior that the pharmacist […]

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Steve do you know . . .Has anyone ever had issues with receiving less meds than MD ordered? How did you handle it? My insurance only pays at Walgreens. Must wait until next year to change it. It’s not like I can confront the pharmacy without being called suspicious and med seeking.  It would probably […]

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Matching drugs to DNA is ‘new era of medicine’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-60903839 We have the technology to start a new era in medicine by precisely matching drugs to people’s genetic code, a major report says. Some drugs are completely ineffective or become deadly because of subtle differences in how our bodies function. The British Pharmacological Society and […]

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This video appears to be a video made by a parent of a 16 y/o that had back surgery and the surgery was done in the Duke University healthcare system. I had a heard a couple of years ago that Duke U had implemented a little/no opiate policy. I can’t imagine a surgeon only willing […]

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We opened our independent pharmacy in 1976, back then the PBM industry was a minor part of paying for prescriptions, the vast majority of prescriptions were paid by cash/check/credit card. In the early 80’s as the DRG reimbursement was implemented in the hospital system. Basically, when a person was admitted to a hospital, the hospital […]

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Tennessee governor won’t consider clemency for RaDonda Vaught https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulatory-issues/tennessee-governor-won-t-consider-clemency-for-radonda-vaught.html A petition signed by thousands of nurses nationwide to grant RaDonda Vaught clemency has taken off in the weeks since her conviction for a fatal medication error, but the movement may be in vain.  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s office confirmed to Kaiser Health News last week […]

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