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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. Prescribing Red Flags The government alleged that from at least 2017 to April 2021 Defendants knowingly filled controlled substance prescriptions “that raised obvious ’red flags’ of potential abuse or diversion.” Zarzamora Press Release. Holiday CVS, L.L.C.

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News on FDA’s Quality Management Maturity Program-Maturity to Continually Improve and to not be Reactive

FDA Law

Brevig, Senior Regulatory Device and Biologics Expert — In January 2023, FDA published a paper summarizing its lessons learned from two pilot Quality Management Maturity (QMM) Pilot Programs, such as best practices for conducting QMM assessments and developing the QMM scoring system. By Holly N.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 2: Non-pharmacologic management of agitated children

PEMBlog

This podcast episode hosted by Brad Sobolewski ( @PEMTweets ) and co-authored by Dennis Ren ( @DennisRenMD ) is all about age-appropriate non pharmacologic management strategies for agitated children. Government. 2012 Jan;109(3):27-32. 2012 Feb;13(1):35-40. Deaths due to physical restraint. Dtsch Arztebl Int. PMC3298214.

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Does the Drug Shortage White Paper Fall Short?

FDA Law

The White Paper notes that of the 123 drugs in shortage in January 2024, a quarter were first reported in shortage prior to 2020, with the oldest dating back to 2012, and shortages were experienced across therapeutic areas; analgesics/anesthetics (17%), anti-infective (12%), and cardiovascular (13%) products comprised 42% of shortages.

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Identifying and Resolving Red Flags: DEA Continues to “Run it Up the Flagpole”

FDA Law

12, 2012) (quoting Bob’s Pharmacy & Diabetic Supplies; Revocation of Registration, 74 Fed. Improper Dosing for Pain Management. The Government alleged that Gulf Med regularly filled prescriptions for patients who traveled “an unusual distance” to obtain their prescriptions. Holiday CVS, L.L.C. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy Nos.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. There was this big thing called the CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, started in 2012. We should be able to trust all the data that comes from our governing board. J Am Geriatr Soc. But we should highlight that.

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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. Scientists had developed powerful HIV drugs that, if taken daily, transform it from a death sentence into a manageable chronic disease in which a person’s virus levels are so suppressed that they cannot spread HIV to others.