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Frieden Shares Parting Thoughts on His Years at CDC http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/PublicHealth/62568? For more than 7 years Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, led the CDC as it faced challenges including MERS, Ebola, and Zika as well as the growing opioid crisis, but on Friday he will step down as Donald Trump assumes the presidency. During his final hectic […]
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McKesson paying $150 million in prescription drug probe, halting sales from Colorado center http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2017/01/17/mckesson-paying-150-million-in-prescription-drug.html McKesson gets their controlled med license suspended for THREE YEARS because the DEA “thinks” that they failed to report “suspicious pharmacy orders”…and just what is a “suspicious pharmacy order”… No proof if diversion of controlled meds, no deaths associated with this… […]
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United Health profit increases 56 percent in fourth quarter http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/unitedhealth-profit-increases-56-percent-in-fourth-quarter/ UnitedHealth Group Inc. reported a 56 percent increase in profit in the fourth quarter of 2016, driven by continued growth of its health services business and a nearly 16 percent increase in revenue from premiums. The Minnesota-based company reported a fourth quarter profit of $1.9 […]
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The year’s Top Drugs http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/years-top-drugs?page=0,0& Out of the top TWENTY prescriptions for medications… there was only THREE that had fewer prescriptions between 2011 and 2015 .. with Hydrocodone/APAP products showing the LARGEST DROP. While the overall number of prescriptions for “pain medications” remained MOSTLY UNCHANGED. Tramadol increased 26% and only THREE controlled medications were in […]
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lawyers weren’t interested in the case because her father’s life didn’t have much value. http://bestlawfirms.usnews.com/mass-tort-litigation-class-actions-plaintiffs I have talked to… exchanged emails with… read chronic pain pts statements that they have contacted law firms to sue some healthcare provider for cutting their opiates, discharging them for no – or trumped up – reasons. And without exception, […]
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