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Senators urge end to fight over e-prescribing controlled substances
For a couple of years now, regulatory agencies and legislators have been wrangling over e-prescribing. On the whole, legislators and health officials seem pretty convinced that e-prescribing is a... Read more...
Questionable doctor continued to prescribe drugs illegally after conviction
Critics of Pennsylvania's discipline of wayward doctors now have a prime example: an incompetent doctor that continued to practice even after being convicted of a felony. Richard A. Brown may not... Read more...
FDA finds 20 drugs that could cause serious adverse reactions
The FDA has released its first quarterly report analyzing drugs for safety risks, concluding that at least 20 drugs have been found to cause serious adverse reactions. The report, the first of an... Read more...
Study: Accidental drug overdose rates hit new high
A new study suggests that deaths from medical mistakes at home have gone up substantially over the last two decades, driven largely by growing home use of prescription painkillers and other drugs... Read more...
DEA wants tough rules for e-prescribing controlled drugs
For a long time, government officials, health plans and IT vendors have been trying to get doctors to write prescriptions electronically. Many doctors have held back, though, because at least 10... Read more...
Pharmas may be able to drag suits to federal court
Increasingly, consumers who feel that they've been injured by drugs are taking their case to state courts. Their adversaries, the pharmaceutical companies, have long contended that the cases had no... Read more...
CT Attorney General sues FDA over OxyContin
Following on years of attempts to urge the FDA into action, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has filed a suit in federal court that attempts to force the FDA to issue stronger... Read more...
