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Physician-Assisted Dying: Our Society Needs It, Says MD http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/872510 Editor’s Note: Arthur Caplan, PhD, interviewed Timothy Quill, MD, as part of the Medscape video series Both Sides Now. Only a portion of Dr Quill’s interview could be included in the video because of time constraints. Here, we are posting the interview in its entirety. In […]

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WSJ Publishes Op-Ed on Not Guilty Verdict for Pain Doctor Obtained by Howard Cooper, Benjamin Wish and Hillary Lehmann http://www.toddweld.com/wsj-publishes-oped-on-not-guilty-verdict-for-pain-doctor-obtained-by-howard-cooper-benjamin-wish-and-hillary-lehmann The Wall Street Journal on June 13, 2015, published an Op-Ed piece written by prominent Boston criminal defense and civil rights attorney Harvey Silverglate commenting on the recent acquittal of Dr. Joseph Zolot and Nurse […]

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Pharmacy benefit managers face crack down on drug pricing http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/pharmacy-benefit-managers-facing-crackdown-drug-pricing New coalition, health plans, employers and legislators will want greater assurances that PBMs are controlling costs. The financial future of pharmacy benefit managers is uncertain as payers, legislators and regulators focus on rising drug prices, according to Moody’s Investors Service. The rising price of drugs […]

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Invokana Lawsuits Coordinated Into MDL baddrug.news/news/invokana-lawsuits-coordinated-mdl/ The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation granted a coordinated docket for more than 100 lawsuits alleging the diabetes drug Invokana caused significant injuries. Cases are currently being transferred and coordinated in a multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. All of these […]

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State Board to Request Reports of Painkiller Orders http://wvpublic.org/post/state-board-request-reports-painkiller-orders West Virginia’s Board of Pharmacy plans to ask prescription drug wholesalers to report pharmacies that place suspiciously large orders of painkillers or other controlled substances.   Credit RayNata / wikimedia The board plans to forward those reports to the state Attorney General’s Office, which last week […]

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Tell all contacts from your list not to accept a video called the “Dance of the Pope”. It is a virus that formats your mobile. Beware it is very dangerous. They announced it today on the radio. Fwd this msg to as many as you can!

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DEA Lays Out New Dynamic for Regional Heroin Trafficking http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/dea-lays-out-new-dynamic-regional-heroin-trafficking A top DEA official has sounded the alarm over how heroin traffickers in Mexico have massively increased poppy cultivation and expanded their distribution networks into the east coast of the United States as they look to cash in on the growing number of US heroin […]

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https://youtu.be/dm6xexu_wJY?t=3m32s Former DEA agent gets a year in federal prison for tax evasion, witness tampering http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/former-dea-agent-gets-a-year-in-federal-prison-for-tax-evasion-witness/2306177 TAMPA — A former Drug Enforcement Administration agent was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in prison, having pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his demanding cash from an imprisoned drug trafficker’s brother. Samuel Murad, 62, once […]

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The FDA Should Approve Drugs Based on Evidence, Not Emotions http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2016/12/the_21st_century_cares_act_could_be_dangerous_for_everyone.html On Dec. 7, the New York Times ran an inspiring, dangerous story about Celine Ryan, a 50-year-old whose advanced colon cancer was successfully treated with experimental immunotherapy. Inspiring, because researchers repeatedly rejected Ryan’s requests to participate in a clinical trial, but her heroic refusal […]

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Obama’s drug policy chief pushes for a compassionate solution to the opioid crisis fusion.net/story/375351/michael-botticelli-jorge-ramos-obama-drug-policy/ Michael Botticelli doesn’t want to be known as the Obama administration’s “drug czar.” That’s because Botticelli, the head of National Drug Control Policy at the White House, thinks that moniker calls back to the failed drug policies of other administrations, which […]

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