FDA issues the rules all other agencies must follow. No agency outranks FDA

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

CDC Officially Begins Issuing Corrections to Opioid “Guidelines” Guideline Corrections Issued Three Years after Catastrophic Damage Wrought on Chronic Disease Community www.medium.com/@heatherzamm/cdc-officially-begins-issuing-corrections-to-opioid-guidelines-3d79b68993f5 The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released an official statement to the mainstream media on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, with “clarification” regarding their 2016 Guidelines for Opioid Prescribing for Treatment of Chronic Non […]

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Is this how the CDC justified – to themselves – about their authority to create opiate dosing guidelines ?

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Some of us has always wondered if the CDC really had any statutory authority to generate the opiate dosing guidelines since their primary statutory authority is to deal with contagious diseases. Maybe they didn’t and that is why the then head of the CDC Thomas R. Frieden quickly made public statements that the guidelines did […]

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USA TODAY Investigation: VA knowingly hires doctors with past malpractice claims, discipline for poor care

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

A USA TODAY investigation finds the Department of Veterans Affairs has repeatedly hired healthcare workers with problem pasts, like neurosurgeon John Henry Schneider, whose license had been revoked after a patient death. USA TODAY https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/03/usa-today-investigation-va-knowingly-hires-doctors-past-malpractice-claims-discipline-poor-care/909170001/ Neurosurgeon John Henry Schneider racked up more than a dozen malpractice claims and settlements in two states, including cases alleging […]

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‘SEAL Team’ Exposes VA: ‘A Health Care System That Runs Like the Post Office’

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

‘SEAL Team’ Exposes VA: ‘A Health Care System That Runs Like the Post Office’ https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2019/04/25/seal-team-exposes-va-healthcare-system-runs-post-office CBS’s SEAL Team has been mostly quiet this season regarding social issues. In its place, recent episodes have taken a deeper perspective into the lives of soldiers during and after deadly missions. This week’s episode offers the latest example with a […]

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