Largest Ever Study on Marijuana Reveals Smoking It does not Damage the Lungs, Rather Improves It

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Largest Ever Study on Marijuana Reveals Smoking It does not Damage the Lungs, Rather Improves It http://anonhq.com/largest-ever-study-marijuana-reveals-smoking-not-damage-lungs-rather-improves/ We have said in the past, and still stand by it, that our goal is to promote medical use of marijuana, similar to the ones on CBD UK. We are not just an advocate of the plant just […]

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How much would you pay to live pain-free?

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

How much would you pay to live pain-free? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/07/how-much-would-you-pay-to-live-pain-free/ What’s the dollar value of pain? Or more accurately: What’s the value of getting rid of it or avoiding it completely? That’s the question posed by a team of Icelandic and American economists in a working paper published this week by the National Bureau of Economic […]

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Governor Cuomo: saving lives by making the lifesaving medication naloxone, more accessible and more affordable.”

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

First-in-the-Nation Program Offers Co-Payment Assistance For Medicine to Reverse Opioid Overdoses Beginning August 9, 2017 https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-no-cost-or-lower-cost-naloxone-available-pharmacies-across-new-york Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a first-in-the-nation program to provide no-cost or lower-cost naloxone at pharmacies across New York. Beginning August 9, 2017, individuals with prescription health insurance coverage, including Medicaid and Medicare, will receive up to $40 […]

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What To Do When Patients Press Record in the Emergency Department

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

What To Do When Patients Press Record in the Emergency Department What To Do When Patients Press Record in the Emergency Department Dear Director: It seems like more and more patients are trying to record me during my encounter with them. Sometimes it’s in the history portion, sometimes they want to record the procedure. I don’t […]

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Two of the three largest PBM’s to limit opiates

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Express Scripts mail-order pharmacy to limit opioids www.ktar.com/story/1696130/express-scripts-mail-order-pharmacy-to-limit-opioids/ The nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager will soon limit the number and strength of opioid drugs prescribed to first-time users. The move by Express Scripts, which has offices in Tempe, was part of a wide-ranging effort to curb an epidemic affecting millions of Americans. But the new […]

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Flimsy evidence behind many FDA approvals

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Flimsy evidence behind many FDA approvals https://in.reuters.com/article/us-health-fda-approvals-idINKCN1AV23K (Reuters Health) – Many drugs granted accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lack clear evidence of safety and effectiveness, and the same is true for most high-risk medical devices, according to two new reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The Accelerated […]

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California Hospital Sued for Refusing to Assist Suicide

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

California Hospital Sued for Refusing to Assist Suicide www.nationalreview.com/corner/450438/california-hospital-sued-refusing-assist-suicide This lawsuit is a little before its time. Should assisted suicide become widely accepted in this country, activists will try to force all doctors to participate–either by doing the deed or referring to a doctor known to be willing to lethally prescribe. But it isn’t yet, […]

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CDC: the guideline’s recommendations reflected weak scientific evidence.

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Strict limits on opioid prescribing risk the ‘inhumane treatment’ of pain patients www.statnews.com/2017/02/24/opioids-prescribing-limits-pain-patients/ Amid a rising toll of opioid overdoses, recommendations discouraging their use to treat pain seem to make sense. Yet the devil is in the details: how recommendations play out in real life can harm the very patients they purport to protect. A […]

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Oligoanalgesia in the emergency department

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

Oligoanalgesia in the emergency department http://www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/2803357 Oligoanalgesia: Underuse of analgesics in the face of valid indications–eg, intense bone pain of terminal CA–for its use. A review of the charts of 198 patients who were admitted through the emergency department with a variety of acutely painful medical and surgical conditions revealed that 56% received no analgesic […]

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