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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law

The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. Pharmacists’ Corresponding Responsibility A controlled substance prescription, to be valid, must be issued for “a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of [their] professional practice.” Zarzamora Press Release.

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Prescribing Red Flags: Pharmacists Be Wary of What the Doctor Orders

FDA Law

For a controlled substance prescription to be effective, that is valid, it must be issued for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of their professional practice. Attorneys Office, Northern District of Illinois, April 21, 2025. 81, 86, 251. 81, 89, 251.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. He saw how care bolstered lives, but the federal government needed data to drive its approach to HIV. He has taken on the role of dad or uncle to many.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

But neither Kennedy nor President Donald Trump have explained why individual agencies such as AHRQ were targeted for cuts or indicated whether any of their work would continue. At the height of the covid pandemic, he said, data produced by AHRQ and other government sources were outclassed by private sources.