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Lawsuit targets Medicaid policy that limits spendy hepatitis C drugs http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/lawsuit-targets-medicaid-policy-that-limits-spendy-hep-c-drugs/ A new lawsuit seeks to force state Medicaid officials to revoke a policy limiting high-priced drugs to treat hepatitis C to only the sickest patients. After a similar suit last month, a private insurer changed its policy. Two weeks after suing private insurers for […]
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Faye Burdett’s death from meningitis B is harrowing, but public opinion should not trump scientific judgement A vaccine against meningitis B, has been available since last year – but only to babies born on or after 1 July http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/faye-burdetts-death-from-meningitis-b-is-harrowing-but-public-opinion-should-not-trump-scientific-a6889871.html You would have needed a heart of stone not to be moved by the pictures of […]
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Obama Rejects Limits on Opioid Prescribing http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/2/22/obama-rejects-limits-on-opioid-prescribing By Pat Anson, Editor President Barack Obama declined to endorse a sweeping proposal by some governors to put limits on the number of opioid painkillers that doctors can prescribe, saying such a policy would be unfair to rural Americans who don’t have access to other pain treatments. “If […]
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Mayor wants to open supervised injection facility for heroin in NY city http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/22/mayor-wants-to-open-supervised-injection-facility-for-heroin-in-ny-city.html?intcmp=hpbt3 Drugs can’t be purchased at Insite in Vancouver, though they can be carried and injected there. (supervisedinjection.vch.ca) One upstate New York city is planning an unconventional approach to combating a growing heroin epidemic: Letting addicts shoot up on government property under the […]
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Most chronic pain Face Book pages have anywhere from a few hundred to a couple of thousand “likes” or member to those that are closed. This is a physician speaking with a pt who is aware that there was FIVE MEMBERS of a particular Face Book group that had committed SUICIDE within a short period […]
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Dear Steve: I wrote to you once before and so appreciated your kindness. Our whole town has been “shut down” from receiving doctor prescribed opiates. The pharmacies have targeted 1 particular doctor who is an old school board certified orthopedic surgeon, he now deals only with pain consulting. About 1 year ago, CVS said they would […]
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Monroe woman who suffered Levaquin drug side effects ‘wanted to die’ http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/94184293-story A Monroe County woman joined thousands of other Americans who say the drug Levaquin caused severe side effects. They say a common drug called Levaquin has damaged their bodies and in some cases and even killed their relatives. “I knew that I was poisoned […]
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Walgreens Offers Overdose-Reversing Drug, But Some Aren’t Sure It’s A Good Idea http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/walgreens-offers-overdose-reversing-drug-but-some-arent-sure-its-a-good-idea/vp-BBpIWkH VIDEO ON WEBLINK After 100+ yrs after Congress created the “black drug market” by passing the Harrison Narcotic Act 1914 and then pass The Controlled Substance Act 1970 that created the DEA and declared the war on the “black drug market” that […]
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Senators Seek to Silence Pain Patients http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/2/10/by6zy0jfl3gd41mp6zxh2aiex41lh5 By Pat Anson, Editor We’ve run several columns recently about the poor quality of pain care in hospitals and how many pain sufferers are treated as drug seeking addicts. Emily Ulrich’s column about her mistreatment in hospitals (“The Danger of Treating ER Patients as Drug Seekers”) really hit […]
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