$20 million in opioid funding advances in Senate with slight change

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/05/01/opioid-funding-advances-in-senate-with-slight-change The opioid stewardship bill advanced in the state Senate on Tuesday after the bill’s author replaced the “penny-a-pill” fee on opioid sales with an annual $20 million in set registration fees to be paid by pharmaceutical companies. The funding would pay for programs to address the opioid overdose epidemic, as well as to pay […]

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Study Finds 31% Use No Opioids After Surgery

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.clinicaladvisor.com/pain-information-center/study-finds-31-use-no-opioids-after-surgery/article/760164/ HealthDay News — Almost 63% of patients did not use opioids after having an elective procedure, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Surgical Association, held from April 19 to 21 in Phoenix. Cornelius A. Thiels, DO, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and colleagues conducted a prospective […]

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Evidence of dozens of deaths ‘irrelevant’ for meningitis jury, defendants argue

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

By Maria Cramer Globe Staff  May 01, 2018 Dozens of people died and hundreds of others fell ill during the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that began in a Framingham compounding pharmacy. But should jurors in the latest trial against former pharmacy employees hear the devastating details of what is considered one of the largest public […]

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