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https://nypost.com/2017/11/20/amazon-is-selling-sketchy-health-products-and-it-may-be-illegal/ Amazon is hawking dubious health products, including some that have been criticized by regulators and may even be illegal. Current health offerings, replete with literal “snake oil,”a term that refers to fake medical products, could stymie the online retailer’s reported plans to disrupt the neighborhood pharmacy. These products include dietary supplements claiming to help […]

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GAO: CMS failed to identify thousands of Medicare beneficiaries at risk for opioid addiction https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/opioids/gao-cms-failed-to-identify-thousands-of-medicare-beneficiaries-at-risk-for-opioid-addiction.html The U.S. Government Accountability Office called on CMS last week to improve its oversight of opioid use among Medicare Part D beneficiaries after identifying flaws in the agency’s monitoring of opioid prescriptions. CMS estimated 33,223 Medicare recipients were at risk […]

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www.aei.org/publication/indias-dodgy-pharmacy/ Key Points The quality of medicine today is much less reliable due to several factors: Western regulators have difficulty overseeing foreign plants, domestic regulators lack the interest to oversee these plants, and generic companies are unable to differentiate their products except by price. This is not limited to a single group, company, or country. […]

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I would like to be included in this lawsuit. After more than 15 years of continuous prescription pain medication use for daily intolerable pain I am currently going through forced unsupervised withdrawal. With no warning my insurance company CVS Caremark is denying me access to my meds pending a “prior authorization”. Its now been several […]

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