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Shots Fired!! Two of the most prestigious medical journals just came out fiercely against epidural injections / RFA. The British Medical Journal just published a “Practice Guideline” paper with these damning statements: “For people living with chronic radicular spine pain, the guideline panel issued strong recommendations against: epidural injection of local anaesthetic, steroids, or their […]
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Your Body, Your Health Care https://www.cato.org/events/your-body-your-health-care AVAILABLE APRIL 8TH. Pre-order at retailers now. January 2025 • Published By Cato Institute By Jeffrey A. Singer At a time when individuals feel increasingly disenfranchised by their health care choices, Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer’s groundbreaking new book, Your Body, Your Health Care, offers a compelling vision for a future […]
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Opioids – how forced tapers do more patient harm than just increased pain https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/opioids-how-forced-tapers-do-more-patient-harm-than-just-neen-monty-ugrwc Taking away my opioid pain relief is not only medically endorsed torture, it is taking away my ability to access treatment for my severe, late-diagnosed, long-standing disease, CIDP. I have been very sick lately. Why? Because I missed my fortnightly IVIG […]
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There’s Big Money in Withholding Pain Relief https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/there_s_big_money_in_withholding_pain_relief.html Pain is the most common reason for seeking medical care. Although pain is experienced only by individuals, under federal policy, pain is a public health challenge, even a global health priority. In a way, this isn’t surprising, as modern definitions of health and public health are expansive, even including […]
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A video diatribe attacking yours truly over something that I SHARED ? Bob Sheerin · Favorites · Admin Top contributor · onesdpSotrg853lgh9iucf7m17futih52i6t0c7m2h250a9h4h0ff877f0f3 · @everyone LOOK AT THIS IDIOT WHILE WERE GOING AFTER ALL THE LEGISLATION BILLS? WTF This is so sad! I fought and won 50 million dollars + plus for pain pump patients […]
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Ozempic, Wegovy Shortage Is Officially Over Compounders given 60- to 90-day notice https://www.medpagetoday.com/endocrinology/diabetes/114324 The shortage of semaglutide injections (Ozempic, Wegovy) is over, the FDA announced on Friday. The agency, along with maker Novo Nordisk, confirmed that supply now meets or exceeds both the current and projected U.S. demand. The injectable formulation of the GLP-1 receptor […]
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On February 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” which bans transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports categories at educational institutions[1][2][4]. This order is based on the Trump administration’s interpretation of Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational programs receiving […]
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Apparently, this is something new that the Feds/CMS has implemented with Medicare Part D and Medicare -C ( Advantage). According to this article, it appears that the various PBM ( Prescription Benefit Managers) have not done much in educating Pharmacists/Pharmacies on how this is supposed to be handled in the billing of the pt’s prescriptions […]
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This is going to be a fairly long post, I intend to make a post to @DOGE on “X” about what most chronic pain pts would agree is a TEN BILLION DOLLAR waste of money. But all of this information is TOO LONG to fit in a single post on “X”. If you are a […]
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