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

FDA Law Blog

Prescriptions Containing No Diagnosis or Intended Use Controlled substance prescriptions issued with a non-specific diagnosis or no diagnosis. Holiday CVS, L.L.C. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy, Nos. 219 and 5195; Decision and Order , 77 Fed. 62,316, 62,342 (Oct. Complaint ¶ 60. Complaint ¶ 61.

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

FDA Law Blog

Patients paying cash or a cash equivalent for controlled substance prescriptions, especially when they use insurance to pay for other prescriptions.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. Well, I’d agree, John, for palliative care ideally starts around the time of diagnosis. Alex: That is not around the time of diagnosis. Jane: We’re following behind the birth doula movement. Jane: Right. Alex: Yeah.

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

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To track covid, he relied on daily feeds of private insurance data from around the country. There are things we could learn to improve our care and get more timely diagnosis of cancer.” Cases of jaundice-related brain damage declined from 7 per 100,000 to about 2 per 100,000 newborns from 1997 to 2012.