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WV considers prescriber rankings in fight against opioid abuse  http://www.wvgazettemail.com/article/20160620/GZ0115/160629953#sthash.cf6zpn9y.mO5xp3Ef.dpuf A new way to curb the proliferation of prescription painkillers in West Virginia is in the works: “Prescriber report cards.” The state Board of Pharmacy is developing a system that will rank doctors by specialty based on the number of prescriptions they write for pain […]

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Jury sides with clinician in medical malpractice case blamed on smoking http://www.clinicaladvisor.com/legal-advisor/pennsylvania-malpractice-case-finds-urologist-not-guilty-blames-patients-smoking/article/504176/ A recent medical malpractice case was resolved in Pennsylvania when a jury declined to blame a clinician for his patient’s death from cancer. The patient, a 47-year old woman, had been going to the defendant urologist since 2005 after blood was discovered in […]

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Unintended Consequences: FDA Drug Safety Warning Backfires http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/864705 A safety warning issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advising clinicians not to prescribe the antidepressant citalopram (multiple brands) at dosages higher than 40 mg/day resulted in worsening depressive symptoms and more psychiatric hospitalizations among patients whose conditions had previously been stabilized with higher […]

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Anti-opioid drug not stocked in many pharmacies in Pennsylvania, survey discovers http://www.post-gazette.com/news/overdosed/2016/06/15/Anti-opioid-drug-not-stocked-in-many-pharmacies-in-Pennsylvania-survey-discovers/stories/201606150013 By Kate Giammarise / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A drug that is central to the push to reduce Pennsylvania’s soaring opioid overdose deaths isn’t on the shelves of many pharmacies, and numerous drug stores Tuesday showed confusion about a state order meant to put naloxone […]

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http://www.myajc.com/news/lifestyles/health/what-can-you-do-for-under-breast-rash/nrkGw/ Q: I am a pharmacist who catches medical errors on a daily basis. The stats on pharmacy mistakes are frightening. Hiring uneducated technicians for pharmacies is incredibly dangerous. I catch three or four errors per day and report them, only to be chided by my manager. I’m made to feel terrible about caring if […]

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DEA Responds to Claim That Agency Will Reclassify Cannabis on August 1 http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/06/21/24241870/dea-responds-to-claim-that-agency-will-reclassify-cannabis-on-august-1 As I blogged about a couple of days ago…  Could this be a can of worms ?  It would appear that the DEA’s intention of decriminalizing MJ.. is mostly to open up research and as I pointed out in the above article.. […]

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The Real Danger to the Community doctorsofcourage.org/index.php/2016/06/21/the-real-danger-to-the-community/ Published on June 21, 2016 by lindacheekmd Judge Schroeder Jr. said the potential for a crisis was serious enough to warrant a major change in Gosy’s bail. Dr. Gosy will now be able to return to his practice and, under the direction of a supervising physician, make recommendations […]

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