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https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/887016 Distinguishing Between Palliative Care and Hospice Diane E. Meier, MD: It’s a common confusion and misconception. The short answer is that all hospice is palliative care, but not all palliative care is hospice. That is the elevator speech version. The more nuanced version is that the Medicare Hospice Benefit, which was written into law […]
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https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/28/16823266/medical-treatments-evidence-based-expensive-cost-stents The recent news that stents inserted in patients with heart disease to keep arteries open work no better than a placebo ought to be shocking. Each year, hundreds of thousands of American patients receive stents for the relief of chest pain, and the cost of the procedure ranges from $11,000 to $41,000 in US […]
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When Equal Isn’t Really Equal The above link is to a article that I authored and was posted on National Pain Report These conversion tablets that you find on the web … have “buyer beware” posted on them in the footnotes that these tables are “guesstimates”.. AT BEST ! Yet it would appear that CVS […]
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For some reason some old “brain memory cells” floated to the forefront of my mind. I went to Butler University School of Pharmacy in Indianapolis .. so we “studied” the Indiana Pharmacy Practice Act.. That was 50 years ago… Recently I made this post Refusal to fill: is “I’m not comfortable” being replaced with “I […]
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http://www.clinicaladvisor.com/neurology-information-center/stroke-risk-in-patients-taking-oral-anticoagulants/article/638712 Apixaban 2.5 mg twice daily was associated with higher rates of ischemic stroke or systemic embolism compared with warfarin in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, according to a study published in the BMJ. Rivaroxaban 15 mg once a day and dabigatran 110 mg twice a day showed evidence of lower thromboembolic rates. Torben Bjerregaard […]
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www.rsds.org/your-pain-your-rights-dealing-with-your-physician-and-your-hospital/http:// By Mary Baluss, Esq. Although I had concentrated on legal issues relating to pain in terminal illness, I had never even heard of CRPS until I got a call from a young mother in California with the crippling syndrome. She had gone from being an athletic, employed, confident woman to one who could not care for her two-year […]
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http://kentuckytoday.com/stories/we-cannot-litigate-our-way-out-of-the-opioid-crisis,10890 More than twenty years after Purdue Pharma launched its first advertising campaign to tout a new miracle drug known as OxyContin, state governments have scrambled to find a political solution to end the opioid crisis in our country. After more than 20 years, the question we must ask ourselves is whether we really want […]
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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/12/25/marketer-fake-brain-boosting-herbal-pills-barred-selling-iowa/980784001/ The marketer of an herbal remedy that falsely claimed to reduce memory loss has been ordered to stop targeting Iowans, authorities said. JGG Enterprises Inc. and its owner, Joseph Gregory Grelock, have been barred from marketing Intellux and other dietary supplements in Iowa that claimed to provide health benefits without scientific evidence state Attorney General Thomas Miller said. The company, which […]
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http://thehill.com/opinion/international/366516-the-feds-should-end-their-losing-war-on-weed The renewed battle over marijuana prohibition in the United States is a fight the federal government appears set to lose, much as it could not sustain the 13-year prohibition against alcohol. Cannabis has been legitimized for medical or recreational use in almost 30 states and the District of Columbia. The primary opponents to legalization […]
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Please don’t take my comment the wrong way I just meant that even though I have known it has pointless I have begged and pleaded non stop begging all day every day for help for this pain to go away even for the slightest relief and it only ever just continued to get worse. Worse […]
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