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Watchdog says DEA failures lead to drug shortage http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watchdog-says-dea-failures-lead-to-drug-shortage/article/2594630?custom_click=rss The Drug Enforcement Agency has yet to adequately address previous mismanagement issues that led to prescription drug shortages, the Government Accountability Office said on Wednesday. In its initial 2015 audit, the GAO found that the DEA ineffectively handled the quota process used to manage the amount […]

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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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