Showing posts with label Prescription drug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prescription drug. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Look Who Is Prescribing What

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As part of the Administration’s goals of better, care, smarter spending, and healthier people, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Ser...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

A California Hospital Charged $10,000 for a Cholesterol Test

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Today's post was shared by Mother Jones and comes from www.motherjones.com By now, I assume we all know that hospitals charge wid...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Colgate Total Ingredient Linked to Hormones, Cancer Spotlights FDA Process

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Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.bloomberg.com Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg The chemic...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Take Two: Just How Good Are Generic Meds Anyway?

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Today's post was shared by Mother Jones and comes from www.motherjones.com A few days ago I wrote a post about generic painkiller...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

FDA Issues Guidances for Industry on Social Media

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Today's article shared from Thomas Abrams Ongoing changes in technology transform medical products – and the ways that both patients an...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Medicines Made in India Set Off Safety Worries

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NEW DELHI — India , the second-largest exporter of over-the-counter and prescription drugs to the United States , is coming under increase...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Senators Press Medicare for Answers on Drug Program

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A Senate committee chairman said he is concerned about the “serious vulnerabilities” detailed in a ProPublica report about scams that t...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Drug overdose deaths have quadrupled since 1980

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The Workers' Compensation system is embroiled in a debate over use of pain medications. As I noted before, the problem of prescription...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

FDA Proposes Letting Generic-Drug Makers Change Labels

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Today's post was shared by FairWarning and comes from online.wsj.com The Food and Drug Administration proposed allowing generi...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

New WCMSA Reference Guide is Now Available

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An updated Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement (WCMSA) Reference Guide is now available in the Downloads section found at...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

FDA Proposes Changes in Pain Medication Prescriptions

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The US FDA has announced proposed changes will be forthcoming in labeling for pain relief medication: Consumers and health care professio...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath

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Cost in the US for pharmaceutical  medications are a stressor for all including workers' compensation carriers. The blame is targeted...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Exercise 'can be as good as pills'

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Medication can be replaced by exercise reports the the BBC . Today's post is shared from bbc.org. Exercise can be as good a medicin...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Medical Marijuana Maybe Permitted By State Authorization

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Image via Wikipedia Workers' Compensation systems maybe legally  implementing distribution of marijuana for medical purposes on a state...
Friday, November 18, 2011

The Complex World of Workers' Compensation and Pharmaceutical Benefits

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The Workers’ Compensation system, designed over a century ago, was intended to provide medical benefits that were to be delivered to injured...