Wednesday, June 28, 2017

High Importance! Sports doctor gets jail time for taking $60k in kickbacks in return for steering patients to compounding pharmacy

Toms River Sports Medicine Doctor Gets Jail Time In Bribery ...

Patch.com-5 hours ago
As a compounding pharmacy, PRU prepared medication using different types and dosages of drugs in order to provide more personalized medications for ...

Victims of 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak urged to file claim for ...

WILX-TV-9 hours ago
... by the Minnesota Department of Health shows shows vials of the injectable steroid product made by New England Compounding Center implicated in a fungal ...
Compounding Pharmacist Indicted After Infant Hospitalized

ModernMedicine · 9 hours ago
06/26/2017PharMEDium Potassium Phosphate and Succinylcholine Chloride Intravia Bags  Lack of Sterility AssurancePharMEDium Services
06/23/2017Fagron Sterile Services  Succinylcholine Chloride 20mg/mL  Lack of Sterility AssuranceFagron Sterile Services
06/22/2017Advanced Pharma  Potassium Phosphate and Succinylcholine Chloride  Lack of Sterility AssuranceAdvanced Pharma, Inc. d/b/a Avella of Houston

Consumer complaints about potentially dangerous cosmetics are on ...

MinnPost-39 minutes ago
“The FDA has much less authority to recall cosmetics from the market in stark contrast to drugs or medical devices,” said Dr. Steve Xu, a corresponding author of ...
Study highlights the ugly side of the beauty industry
In-Depth-Chicago Tribune-40 minutes ago

Use of Fentanyl Patches in Nursing Homes Persists After FDA Warning

Pain Medicine News-10 hours ago
Despite FDA warnings regarding the risk for adverse effects from administering long-acting opioids to patients who had not developed opioid tolerance throug

Drugmakers Are Racing to Find Alternatives to Opioids

Bloomberg-3 hours ago
In the wake of mounting overdoses and deaths from the opioid-addiction crisis sweeping across the U.S., drugmakers are racing to come up with safer ...

US attorney: Locals must lead fight against opioid epidemic

Bloomington Pantagraph-13 hours ago
SPRINGFIELD — The fight to control an opioid epidemic that claimed almost 2,000 lives in Illinois last year will be fought at the community level with a battle ...

Health Care, Medicaid Cuts And The Opioid Crisis

WPSU-19 hours ago
With an overdose epidemic worsening, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for commonly abused opioids such as ...
Opioid Crisis About Much More Than Opioids
PR Newswire (press release)-Jun 27, 2017

White House opioid crisis commission misses due date for ...

STAT-Jun 27, 2017
ASHINGTON — President Trump's commission on the opioid crisis has missed its first deadline. The newly created panel met for the first time on June 16, just 11 ...