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Walmart sues government in pre-emptive move ahead of expected opioid lawsuit https://www.marketwatch.com/story/walmart-sues-government-in-pre-emptive-move-ahead-of-expected-opioid-lawsuit-11603402626 Retail giant says U.S. government is trying to use it as a scapegoat Walmart Inc.  sued the federal government in an attempt to strike a pre-emptive blow against what it said is an impending opioid-related civil lawsuit from the Justice Department. The retail giant said […]

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Prescription Drugs From Canada? Not So Fast https://www.medicaldaily.com/prescription-drugs-canada-not-so-fast-456815 Almost a month after President Donald Trump announced that states could begin importing drugs from Canada, pharmacists on both sides of the border don’t like what he’s prescribing. Importing medications from Canada is part of the president’s America First Healthcare Plan to lower drug costs for Americans, […]

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OxyContin maker to plead guilty to federal criminal charges, pay $8 billion, and will close the company https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/business/purdue-pharma-guilty-plea/index.html Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, has agreed to plead guilty to three federal criminal charges for its role in creating the nation’s opioid crisis and will pay more than $8 billion and close down the company. […]

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https://www.medicare.gov/plan-compare/#/?lang=en&year=2021 Everyone needs to look at the Part D plan… many will not have to change their plan but others may be forced to change. What I found was that some of the Part D policies is that they are currently not listing prices of individual medications. When comparing prgms for us… I was offered […]

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Court tosses $7M judgment awarded to patient paralyzed after spine injection at ASC https://www.beckersasc.com/asc-news/court-tosses-7m-judgment-awarded-to-patient-paralyzed-after-spine-injection-at-asc.html The Colorado Court of Appeals reversed a $7 million judgment against Surgery Center at Lone Tree (Colo.) on Oct. 15, saying the ASC should not have been held vicariously liable for a spine surgeon’s alleged malpractice. Plaintiff Robbin Smith lost all […]

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Leaving the bench Today I turned in my resignation as a certified pharmacy technician with CVS. I’ve been working as a tech for the last 18 years and the changes that come down on us are getting worse and worse. I’ve lost hope that our patients will be taken care of. Last week was the […]

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My state drivers license was suspended unknown to me, to make matters worse my great-grandson took nana’s d.l. for the picture of nana long story short he lost it. We were in the hectic throws of covid, dept of Licensing closed. I went and got veteran’s affairs outreach office to make me a copy of […]

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Inside Hunter Biden’s murky history of business dealings in China https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/inside-hunter-bidens-murky-history-of-business-dealings-in-china/ An expose of Hunter Biden’s emails published by The Post on Wednesday showed the oft-troubled son leveraging access to his then-vice president father and introducing him to an executive of a Ukrainian gas company that was under scrutiny at the time. The family’s dealings […]

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Opioid Prescribing for Cancer Care Drops https://www.drugtopics.com/view/opioid-prescribing-for-cancer-care-drops The rate of prescribing opioids among both oncologists and non-oncologists has dropped significantly in the past few years, raising concerns for patient care, according to a recent study. In the wake of the US opioid epidemic, there have been major efforts to curb opioid prescribing. Researchers at Yale […]

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