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80 People Being Monitored in Dallas Ebola Case
Oct 2 2014 // More than 80 people in Dallas are being monitored for symptoms of Ebola after coming into contact with patient Thomas Eric Duncan or others who Duncan had met, health officials said. The people have been asked to report to...
More Pilots in Crashes Testing Positive for Prescription, Other Drugs
Sep 10 2014 // Four times as many pilots killed in airplane crashes tested positive for drugs over the past two decades, tracking a broader societal trend in the use of antihistamines, painkillers and marijuana. While most of the...
Changes in Washington
Sep 8 2014 // Groups that favor the legalization of marijuana say they are seeing positive developments at the federal level in Washington. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers during a House Appropriations Committee hearing...
Businesses Irked by Alabama Court’s Generic Drug Label Ruling
Aug 25 2014 // Business isn’t buying the Alabama Supreme Court’s attempt to limit the fallout from its decision saying brand-name drugmakers can be held liable for warnings on generic medication produced by other companies. A...
Alabama Supreme Court Upholds Generic Drug Liability Ruling
Aug 17 2014 // Brand-name drug makers can be held liable for warnings on a generic medication even if it was produced by another company, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday, standing by an earlier decision that business leaders...
Mobile Game Apps Moving Into Medication Management
Aug 15 2014 // A group of ex-gaming industry executives say they can use their design chops to solve a major health challenge: Sick patients neglecting to take their medication and costing employers and insurance providers billions of...
Clerical Errors Delayed 100s of Driver License Suspensions in Penn.
Aug 11 2014 // Driver’s license suspensions in hundreds of criminal cases in Pennsylvania since 2008 are being carried out now because of what York County, Penn., officials say was an oversight. The York Dispatch reported on August...
California’s Incomplete Prescription for Reducing Climate Risk
Aug 6 2014 // The California Natural Resources Agency has just released its Final Safeguarding California Plan for Reducing Climate Risk. The roughly 350-page plan is designed to provide policymakers with recommendations about how best...
Drugmaker Roche Wins Reversal in Accutane Duty to Warn Case
Aug 5 2014 // Roche Holding AG won reversal of a $2.1 million verdict by a New Jersey jury in favor of a California woman who blamed the company’s Accutane acne drug for her inflammatory bowel disease. A judge erred in the 2011...
Louisiana Parish Audit Finds Most School Bus Drivers Not Drug-Tested
Jul 29 2014 // An internal audit has found that the Caddo Parish school system has been testing far fewer bus drivers than it should for drugs and alcohol. Federal regulations require random testing each year of at least half the...
Painkiller Prescribing Highest in South; Florida Reverses Trend
Jul 21 2014 // Health care providers in some states prescribe far more painkillers than those in other states, according to a new government report. Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers in 2012...
Painkiller Prescribing Varies By State, Highest in South; Florida Reverses Trend: CDC
Jul 2 2014 // Health care providers in some states prescribe far more painkillers than those in other states, according to a new government report. Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers in 2012 –...
Virginia’s Monitoring Program Fights ‘Doctor Shopping’ for Prescription Drugs
Jul 1 2014 // The fidgety patient stood a bit too close to the counter at DownHome Pharmacy in Roanoke, Virginia, and chatted a bit too eagerly. She had no insurance, she said, and would be paying cash for her prescription for Norco, a...
Court Tosses Liability Claims Against Painkiller Drugmakers
Jul 1 2014 // A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the dismissal of nearly all claims in 68 cases seeking to hold drug makers liable for injuries from the use of the prescription painkillers Darvon and Darvocet, which were pulled...
More Drivers ‘Under the Influence’ Testing Positive for Multiple Drugs
Jun 27 2014 // Since 1993, the profile of a drugged driver has changed substantially. More drivers are now testing positive for prescription drugs, cannabis, and multiple drugs, and they are more likely to be older than 50, according to...
250 More Former Players Join Drug Abuse Lawsuit Against NFL
Jun 6 2014 // Former NFL star Marcellus Wiley added his name to a lawsuit accusing America’s most popular pro sports league of illegally dispensing powerful narcotics and other drugs to keep players on the field without regard for...
Tennessee Unveils Plan to Curb Prescription Drug Abuse
Jun 5 2014 // Gov. Bill Haslam and Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Douglas Varney this week unveiled a multi-year plan to fight prescription drug abuse in Tennessee. The state estimates that in the past year,...
Aetna, Humana, Cigna Accused of Bias Against AIDS Patients in Florida
May 30 2014 // Advocates for people with HIV and AIDS charged that insurers including Aetna Inc., Humana Inc. and Cigna Corp. have discriminated against Obamacare patients in Florida infected with the virus. The Tampa-based AIDS...
North Carolina Start-Up’s Software Tracks Fraud in Packaging, Documents
May 29 2014 // By snapping a picture with his mobile phone, Hersh Tapadia demonstrated how an app developed by the Durham-based anti-counterfeiting technology company CertiRx Corp. could find fraudulent changes on a prescription drug...
Insurers Balk at High Cost of Specialty Drug
May 21 2014 // The leading U.S. health insurance trade group on Tuesday hit out at the extremely high cost of new specialty medicines, accusing drugmakers of taking advantage of the insurance system by pricing products at unsustainable...
