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WHAT WE’RE READING: Not Your Typical Call to Legalize Pot
“Should the U.S. Legalize Hard Drugs?” Washington Post: One man argues legalizing marijuana, cocaine and other hard drugs could save the U.S. cash. “An Age-Appropriate Assist,” New York Times’ “The New...
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AHL’s TOP STORY: NIH Initiative To Encourage Researchers To Find New Uses for...
NIH yesterday announced a new initiative aiming to encourage researchers to find new uses for old drugs that failed to treat one disease but might be effective for another, the AP/San Francisco...
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AHL’s TOP STORY: Senate Panel Launches Probe Into Drugmakers Ties to Advocacy...
The Senate Finance Committee yesterday launched an investigation into the relationship between drugmakers, advocacy groups and organizations that set guidelines on how physicians prescribe painkillers,...
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AHL’s TOP STORY: Senate Passes House-Approved Bill To Reauthorize FDA...
The Senate yesterday voted 92-4 to approve compromise legislation (S 3187) that would reauthorize and modify FDA’s prescription drug and medical device user-fee programs, Politico reports (Norman,...
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FDA: Approves New Four-Drug, Once Daily HIV Treatment by Gilead Sciences
FDA on Monday approved Gilead Sciences’ Stribild, which will be marketed as a once-daily pill to control HIV in individuals who previously have not been treated for infection, AP/USA Today reports....
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AHL’s TOP STORY: FDA Urges Follow Up With Patients at Risk of Meningitis
In an update posted on FDA’s website yesterday, federal officials urged health care facilities to follow up with patients who received an injectable medication made at the New England Compounding...
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AHL’s TOP STORY: Medicare ‘Doughnut Hole’ Provision Did Not Cause Drug Prices...
The cost of prescription drugs did not increase any faster for other Medicare beneficiaries after a provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires drugmakers to grant discounts to beneficiaries who...
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POLL: Should FDA Have More Authority Over Compounding Pharmacies?
A House subcommittee and Senate committee this week are holding hearings on a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to contaminated steroid injections from the New England Compounding Center,...
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AHL’s TOP STORY: FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Tighter Regulation of...
An FDA advisory panel on Friday voted 19-10 to recommend that the agency strengthen restrictions on widely used painkillers containing hydrocodone in an effort to curb the increasing misuse of...
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How FDA Determines Drug ‘Safety,’ Where Consumers Go For Information
Amid problems linked to FDA-approved drugs — including last year’s nationwide meningitis outbreak — some might be questioning what exactly makes a drug “safe.” In an interview with American Health...
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