Report Faults States' Oversight of Specialty Pharmacies (Washn)

Report Faults States' Oversight of Specialty Pharmacies (Washn)

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WASHINGTON — State boards have failed to adequately regulate the safety of practices at specialty pharmacies like the one at the center of the deadly fungal meningitis outbreak, according to a congressional report to be released Monday. The report by …
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Pharmacy-made pregnancy drug under scrutiny after meningitis outbreak

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Many restricted use of the FDA-approved Makena in favor of $ 20- to $ 40-a-dose versions that had been made for years by pharmacies, saying that would give more women access to the treatment. Federal officials, sympathetic to such arguments, … In late …
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The Cost of Dying: Simple act of feeding poses painful choices

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Anti-cancer drugs costing tens of thousands of dollars that extend life for mere months with deeply sickening side effects? The cost of … You didn't have to do deep anesthesia or face surgical complications," said Dr. Timothy O. Lipman, chief of the …
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Malaria Drug Subsidies: Good Idea Or Wrong Path?

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Now the findings, presented publicly at a meeting in Washington, have been published in The Lancet. In most of the countries where the subsidies were tried, the share of the market for artemisinin-combination therapies, or ACTs, went up a lot. In …
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