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"Marijuana as Medicine": National Institute on Drug Abuse Updates Its Website
In this industry, removing a question mark can mean a great deal — especially when it's removed from a government website. Earlier this week, the National Institute on Drug Abuse switched the title of its website page from "Is Marijuana Medicine?" to "Marijuana as Medicine." And that wasn't the only change. Nearly every section of the site, which was last revised July 2015, has minor...
Prescription Drug 'Abuse' By Doctors: Medicare Part D Trends Analyzed
Prescription drug abuse may occur the moment a script is written. ProPublica analyzed Medicare Part D trends and created a database that reveals questionable prescribing patterns of some doctors.
Preventing and treating drug abuse? There's an app for that
By combining the processing power and connectivity of a smartphone, and a wireless biosensor on the patient's wrist, iHeal can detect when a patient is stressed and at risk of relapsing or suffering a panic attack.
Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse with Proper Medication Disposal
Many opioid abusers get the prescriptions from friends or family. It’s important to store medicine safely to prevent prescription drug abuse.
Protecting Patients from Harm: Preventing Prescription Drug Abuse in Medicare
For 50 years, Medicare has helped ensure that senior citizens and those with disabilities have access to high-quality health care in the United States. Many Medicare recipients suffer from painful chronic conditions, such as arthritis, while others have experienced falls or surgeries. Most if not all of these patients look to their health care providers for pain relief.
8 Tips for Keeping Your Medications Straight
It's important to take prescription medication correctly, especially if you're on several drugs. Try these senior health tips to avoid medication side effects.
Who should pay for disposing unused drugs? Pharma says: not us
Drug companies do not want to pay for retrieving and disposing unused prescription medicines.
Why Your Drug Copay Could Change
Insurers and employers are looking to stem the rising costs of expensive specialty drugs. One approach is to vary the copayment depending on the health value they calculate the drugs provide.
Costly Hepatitis C Drugs for Everyone?
Competition and discounts are going a long way toward resolving the problem of expensive hepatitis C drugs.
This is why your drug prescriptions cost so damn much
Key findings of investigation into harder-to-abuse opioids
The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity investigated how pharmaceutical companies are using their political clout to push a new form of opioids as their answer to the e
31 Drugs, Including Viagra, Will Be Cut From CVS’s Formulary
CVS Health will exclude 31 more prescription medicines from insurance coverage next year, including Viagra and treatments for diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
Big Data Peeps At Your Medical Records To Find Drug Problems
It's been tough to identify the problems that only turn up after medicines are on the market. An experimental project is now combing through data to get earlier, more accurate warnings.
How Apple’s New Health App Could Be Used—Or Abused
"There are some things you can't figure out by someone tapping into an iPhone”
How to Recognize and Address Signs of Cough Medicine Abuse
By Peggy McKibbin of Five Moms As parents, when we think of drug abuse, we tend to immediately think about illicit drugs that are most often associated with misuse and abuse. However, there is another drug that tends to slip under the radar because of its more common and safe use. Dextromethorphan (DXM) is the …
The surprising reason drug prices are on the rise
A new study shows even older drugs are seeing big hikes.
Drug Disposal Data Raises Questions Over Mail-Order Pharmacies
Medication waste may be more likely among patients who use mail-order pharmacies, rather than retail pharmacies.
Many food supplements unlawfully contain drugs
The most common medicines tainting these products were usually ones that doctors prescribe for weight loss, for muscle building or to boost a man’s sex drive.
What Does That "Rx" Have to Do With Prescription Drugs?
Pill bottle image via Shutterstock???, sometimes transliterated as "Rx," is an abbreviation of the Latin recipe, the command form of recipere, "to take.” Back in the days when most everyone in Europe used Latin, a doctor’s orders usually began with ? as an instruction to take specific ingredients and combine them to make a medicine for a patient. Pharmacists later put the symbol on medicine containers…
FDA Asks: What Would Happen if Drugs Advertised Their Price?
If ads for prescription drugs included their price, would consumers and doctors ignore important information about safety and effectiveness?
What are Disease Modifying Migraine Drugs (DMMDs)?
DMMDs represent a valuable novel treatment for migraine, which may potentially change the treatment paradigm for it.
