Pharmacists Feeling Pain Over Restrictive AMA Resolution

Pharmacists Feeling Pain Over Restrictive AMA Resolution

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It stated that the AMA “deem[s] inappropriate inquiries from pharmacies to verify the medical rationale behind prescriptions, diagnoses and treatment plans to be an interference with the practice of medicine and unwarranted. … Richard Pieters, MD, a …
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Lamar Alexander: Tainted drugs from Texas more proof Congress needs to act

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The FDA has stepped up inspections since last September's outbreak of fungal meningitis, caused by steroid injections from the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts. Those injections caused a nationwide outbreak, which killed 63 people …
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Status Conference Scheduled for GranuFlo Multidistrict Litigation, Notes

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The law firm of Hissey Kientz, LLP reports that the first Scheduling Conference for the GranuFlo and NaturaLyte multidistrict litigation in U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts is scheduled for August 30, 2013, according to a July 29th …
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Huffington Foundation gives million to Neurodegeneration Consortium

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The NDC was established with an inaugural $ 25 million challenge gift from the Robert A. and Renee E. Belfer Family Foundation to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology …
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