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How Reliable Are Your Generic Drugs From India? https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/how-reliable-are-your-generic-drugs-from-india FDA warning letters to Indian drug companies have increased dramatically in recent years. Are you taking generic drugs from one of these manufacturers? For decades the FDA has told Americans that generic drugs are absolutely identical to brand name medicines. Physicians, pharmacists and insurance companies reassure […]

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Mulready Files Action Against CVS/Caremark https://www.oid.ok.gov/release_040323/ OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready announced today the filing of an administrative action against CVS/Caremark that outlines alleged violations of the Patient’s Right to Pharmacy Choice Act. The filing targets the practice of “steering patients” to CVS pharmacies and prescription mail-order services and seeks to censure, suspend, place […]

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Must watch & please give a retweet! The trans 'Hero' in Matt Walsh's documentary 'What is a woman' silences an entire room of reporters in a live press conference about 'medically transitioning children!"@AlissaWalsh21 @ladykennington @againstgrmrs @OfficialAbelG @catcattinson… pic.twitter.com/qnGUaqGS18 — Scott Newgent-Trans Regretters (@NotScottNewgent) March 11, 2023  

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98% of US hospital websites share patient data with third-parties https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/98-of-us-hospital-websites-share-patient-data-with-third-parties.html Almost all U.S. hospital websites are sending patient data to third-party companies such as Alphabet, Meta and Adobe, SC Media reported April 3.  The report cited an April 3 study published in Health Affairs in which researchers analyzed 6,162 U.S. hospital and health system websites, including 3,747 identified […]

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Now I understand how the DEA is able to state with a “straight face” that they don’t control/ration controlled meds and interfere with pt’s access in getting them.  I have read a couple of comments about the Walgreen, CVS, Walmart lawsuit by 50 state AG’s , native American groups and others that those three chain […]

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NSAID Use Remains Complex Review leads to recommendations and warnings on the use of NSAIDs for pain. https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/news/nsaid-use-remains-complex NSAIDs: Quick History Aspirin, the first nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug or NSAID, was developed in 1897. It was not until the 1950s that non-aspirin NSAIDs became available and forever changed the treatment of pain. As a class of […]

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Bureaucrats are telling your doctor how to treat pain. And patients suffer needlessly https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/02/16/fear-opioids-causing-patients-needlessly-suffer-severe-pain/11254143002/ Thanks to pressure from lawmakers, government agencies and policymakers who inserted themselves into the patient-doctor relationship, patients became the victims of the never-ending war on drugs. A decade ago, most people thought of Tylenol (acetaminophen) as a medicine for fever, malaise and minor aches and […]

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