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Pharmaceuticals
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Back-to-the-beat resources on Health Policy
Since so many of us are in storm (or non-storm) what-are-we-going-to-do-with-all-these-batteries cleanup and back-to-school mode, I thought I’d bring some…
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Author sees need for more drug safety info for elderly
Writing a guest blog item for Scientific American, AHCJ member Laura Newman profiled the case of her mother to argue…
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Factory that made recalled Tylenol was cited
The U.S. House of Representatives’ oversight committee will hold a hearing today about an April 30 recall of children’s Tylenol…
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Drug companies hit with punitive damages
A jury has decided Teva Parenteral Medicines and Baxter Healthcare Corp. must pay a combined $500 million in punitive damages…
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Disciplined docs turn up on Pfizer payroll
New Scientist’s Peter Aldhous and Jim Giles created an interesting mash-up of two popular health stories, disciplined caregivers and conflicts…
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Newly released data reveals inappropriate use of antipsychotics in nursing homes
Kay Lazar and Matt Carroll of The Boston Globe have written about nursing homes that use “antipsychotic drugs to control…
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Roche linked to doctor praising drug in the media
Crikey.com, a news Web site based in Melbourne, Australia, calls our attention to some recent reporting about Mabthera, a drug…
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OPM: Don’t restrict our pharmacy contracts
“Nearly 30 percent of the government’s $39 billion health plan goes to cover prescription drugs,” writes Stephen Losey of Federal…
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Survey looks at use of leftover pain meds
One in five people in Utah have been prescribed pain medication in the past year, according to new figures from…
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Open government directive bears fruit, databases
In December, 2009 Peter Orszag, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, issued an Open Government Directive…