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State Boards of Pharmacy Missing in Action During Opioid Crisis

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state boards of pharmacy to properly regulate pharmacies that irresponsibly and too often illegally profited from opioid drug sales to patients. From the Commonwealth Fund : “West Virginia had not only the highest state rate of “deaths of despair” in 2016 but the biggest increase in deaths from these causes since 2005.”.

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Article FDA Thank You In unanimous decision, Supreme Court solves FDA’s ‘standing’ issue

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In unanimous decision, Supreme Court solves FDA’s ‘standing’ issue Two lower courts had articulated a Rube Goldberg-esque theory of “standing” – the right of a person or organization to sue another entity – based on the idea that doctors not prescribing mifepristone or treating patients who had taken it had experienced economic harms.

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After Heart Attack, Pot Smoking Raises Post-Op Dangers

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For their study, Yoo and his team analyzed data from a statewide registry of more than 113,000 patients in Michigan who had angioplasty between January 2013 and October 2016. Heart patients might instead want to lay off pot, Yoo said, or at least make sure doctors know they use marijuana if they wind up needing another procedure.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You FDA’s nonprescription advisors find no efficacy for phenylephrine

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In August 2016, the CHPA provided a lengthy comment asserting, essentially, that the petitioners had already sought relief in its earlier petition and that the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee (NDAC) had addressed the concerns raised again in this latest petition.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

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I pursued a degree in Pharmacy from the University of Murcia to become a qualified Pharmacist, followed by an MSc in Cancer Pharmacology at London Metropolitan University. Interactive Q&A session: Pose your questions directly to the experts and get tailored insights to your interests and concerns.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

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Phage therapies are sold at a pharmacy in Georgia. But what is less well-publicized is that the same 2016 review predicted that the vast majority of these deaths – up to 90 percent – will occur in Africa and Asia, where antibiotic use is soaring and access to alternatives is poor. UTIs, diabetic foot ulcers).

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FDA sends warning letters to websites illegally selling opioids

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The first wave of the opioid crisis began in the 1990s with the over-prescription of opioids from doctors and pharmacies. President Donald Trump made fighting the opioid crisis a key campaign promise back in 2016; however, since then his administration has achieved relatively little on the issue.

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