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drugs
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Reporter focuses on chronic pain for series on opioid use
When The Cincinnati Enquirer set out to look at the societal costs of the deadly opioid crisis, reporter Lisa Bernard-Kuhn…
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Medicare data shows dangerous prescribing habits, lack of oversight
ProPublica’s Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Jennifer LaFleur, in an analysis of Medicare prescription records, found that “some doctors and…
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Reporter tracks top prescribers’ ties to drugs they prescribe
A while back, Sen. Charles Grassley wrote to state health officials, asking for lists of top Medicaid prescribers of certain…
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Drug pricing, rebates to shift with Health Policy
Drug rebates aren’t the headline grabbing element of Health Policy; for some of us they are probably in the eye-glazing…
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NYT series digs into overprescription and developmentally disabled adults
In the series Abused and Used, New York Times reporter Danny Hakim and a host of his colleagues have been…
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‘Designer’ drugs easily available, unpredictable
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has launched an investigation into synthetic “designer” drugs, finding that they are easy to buy, their…
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Who monitors pharmacies’ systems to curb pseudoephedrine sales?
CVS Pharmacy has been in the news recently after it agreed to pay $75 million in penalties and forfeit $2.6…
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British skeptics rethink drug policy over a few beers
On BMJ.com, guest blogger Annabel Bentley relates the proceedings of a local chapter of “Skeptics In The Pub” (their Facebook…
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Archive offers drug industry documents online
In correspondence earlier this month, Kim Klausner, of the University of California, San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management,…
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Fla. painkiller industry flourishes, supplies nation
The Miami Herald‘s Scott Hiaasen delved into South Florida’s massive painkiller industry, one which, enabled by loose laws and lax…