Drugs as physicians. Medical search. Frequent questions

The number of Brussels residents per doctor could rise from 956 in 2001 to 1,550 by 2021, claimed Gerkens. (expatica.com)
In April of 2021, the U.S. surpassed 100,000 drug overdose deaths for the preceding 12-month period, marking a nearly 29% increase from the previous 12-months. (cdc.gov)

I underwent tests, and the doctor told me I had tuberculosis(TB). (hindustantimes.com)
This time around, she went to a doctor in a private hospital, who diagnosed her with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). (hindustantimes.com)
Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease that can be treated with a combination of antibiotic drugs. (hindustantimes.com)
Rana doesn't know how she got infected twice, but doctors said poor sanitation, bad air quality and smoke make the tuberculosis bacteria thrive. (hindustantimes.com)
Dr Neetu Talwar, paediatric pulmonologist at Fortis Hospital, said, "More cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis have been surfacing over the past three years or so. (hindustantimes.com)
According to a 2017 study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis are set to increase in the four high burden countries, such as India, the Philippines, Russia, and South Africa, between 2000 and 2040. (hindustantimes.com)
It adds that increased spread from person to person will be responsible for the growing number of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases. (hindustantimes.com)
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is a major health challenge across much of Africa, but a new medicine being pioneered in South Africa could be a breakthrough after decades of frustration. (kff.org)
Bedaquiline is being made available to 3,000 people suffering side effects of the usual drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment, or who have developed complete drug resistance…" (Findlay, 4/10). (kff.org)

Health Canada is allowing Canadian doctors to prescribe the drug Mifegymiso, more commonly known RU-486, as of July 1. (cbc.ca)
While doctors can now legally prescribe the drug, it's not expected any supplies of the drug will be available in the country until the fall. (cbc.ca)
In March 2014, TEVA and IVAX paid the United States federal government and the state of Illinois more than $27.6 million to settle state and federal allegations that they induced Dr Reinstein to prescribe the drug. (medscape.com)

Wyand also questions how patients would pay for the drug at a doctor's office. (cbc.ca)
Reps scour a doctor's office for objects - a tennis racquet, Russian novels, '70s rock music, fashion magazines, travel mementos or cultural or religious symbols - that can be used to establish a personal connection with the doctor," Fugh-Berman and Ahari wrote. (sott.net)

MDR-TB patients are treated with a combination of drugs, which are divided into four groups - fluoroquinolones, second-line drugs, second-line injectable drugs and add-on drugs. (hindustantimes.com)
MDR TB which is also resistant to a fluoroquinolone and any second-line injectable drug, is called XDR TB, which means extensively drug resistant. (cdc.gov)

Dr. Anderson betrayed his oath and betrayed his medical credentials to illegally dole out significant amounts of addictive drugs, including opioids, fueling our communities' addiction crisis while lining his pockets," said U.S. Attorney Estes. (irs.gov)
What this conviction is not," stated U.S. Attorney Russell "is targeting of a physician who prescribed opioids in the course of professional practice and for a legitimate medical purpose. (justice.gov)
One former patient had five drug overdoses while under Reynolds's care, yet he continued to prescribe opioids and benzodiazepines after each overdose. (justice.gov)
Nonetheless, Dr. Reynolds continued prescribing opioids to Jackie Hughes until the patient died of an overdose. (justice.gov)
Common types of drugs that are misused include depressants, opioids, and stimulants. (medlineplus.gov)

Bob Schuster, some people might remember, was the director of NIDA [the National Institute on Drug Abuse] for a while under Reagan, but he wasn't a drug warrior like those folks … he was pretty cool, actually. (hightimes.com)
Nora Volkow, M.D., has been the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) since May 2003. (medlineplus.gov)

All blood and urine tests collected from November 2016 through June 2018 were negative for drugs or alcohol. (medscape.com)
WKYT started an investigation into the doctor during the summer of 2018. (wkyt.com)
WKYT also learned Dr. Heilig was under the review of the Kentucky Medical Licensure Board for failing a drug test during a day he was operating on patients in May 2018. (wkyt.com)
Drafted by the Ethics, Law, and Humanities Committee - a joint committee that includes the AAN, the American Neurological Association, and the Child Neurology Society - the statement was prompted by a 2018 report from the AAN Neurology Drug Pricing Task Force to address challenges associated with high drug costs. (medscape.com)

The Biden-Harris Administration will continue its aggressive efforts to sanction those involved in Mexican and PRC drug trafficking operations - and so far into 2023, sanctions imposed have increased 85% over last year's total. (whitehouse.gov)

Prosecutors allege that Dao and Case fraudulently filled prescriptions at various pharmacies in Elizabethtown for narcotic drugs such as hydrocodone, Oxycontin and Percocet. (wave3.com)
Meanwhile, Dao is appealing a conviction in Louisville on charges of writing prescriptions and checks to a patient in exchange for sex and part of the drugs the patient obtained with the prescriptions. (wave3.com)
Dr. Richard Wallrath was already on probation from a 2009 complaint over problems with the way several patients were treated when new allegations surfaced that he'd written prescriptions for himself and gathered prescriptions from multiple other doctors. (consumerwatchdog.org)
What has haunted Pack for more than a decade is that the driver obtained her narcotics prescriptions from doctors practicing in the same Walnut Creek hospital, but since the doctors didn't communicate they weren't aware the prescriptions were redundant. (consumerwatchdog.org)
At the time of the accident, the state had been operating its Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System, or CURES, database for three years, a program designed to ferret out prescription duplication by allowing doctors and pharmacists to see what prescriptions their patients already have. (consumerwatchdog.org)
A friendly physician makes the rep's job easy because the rep can use the 'friendship' to request favors in the form of prescriptions. (sott.net)
Physicians who view the relationship as a straightforward goods-for-prescriptions exchange are dealt with in a businesslike manner. (sott.net)
From 2010 through 2012, the period of illegal activity covered at trial, Dr. Reynolds was in the top 2 percent of all Kentucky doctors for oxycodone prescriptions, the top 5 percent for hydrocodone prescriptions, and the top 4 percent for benzodiazepine prescriptions. (justice.gov)
Pharmaceutical companies rank doctors according to the number of prescriptions they write -- from 1 at the low end to 10 for high prescribers. (naturalnews.com)
But their access to prescription drugs on the job, their ability to write prescriptions and the extreme stress of the profession can be contributing factors, he explained. (mysuncoast.com)

But few doctors take to sales reps waving prescribing data in their faces and saying, "You promised me last month that you would write more of my product, but based on your prescription volume I can see that you haven't. (opednews.com)
Still, the AMA contends that sales reps perform a valuable service by helping to get "public health and education to the right doctors when new products or devices have come on the market. (opednews.com)
A paper published April 24, 2007 in the Public Library of Science journal Medicine uncovers the tactics which pharmaceutical sales representatives, commonly called "drug reps," are trained to use in promoting drugs to prescribing physicians. (naturalnews.com)
The writers report that drug reps are trained to gather as much personal information as possible about the doctors to whom they are promoting pharmaceuticals -- from birthdays and hobbies to religious affiliation. (naturalnews.com)
Drug reps are trained to note any detail that can be used to establish a personal relationship with a doctor. (naturalnews.com)
Drug reps offer gifts, and not just mugs and pens inscribed with drug names. (naturalnews.com)
Once the high prescribers are identified, the drugs reps are then directed to reward those doctors with attention and gifts. (naturalnews.com)
The highest prescribing doctors are the ones with whom the drug reps work hardest to build relationships. (naturalnews.com)
When doctors express skepticism about a certain drug, reps will take one of several approaches. (naturalnews.com)

Doctors are not aware that companies are out there that know every prescription a doctor prescribes," Dr. John Santa with the Prescription Project, a coalition to curb drug companies' access to doctor prescribing information, told the Chicago Tribune. (opednews.com)
It examines the relationship established between the woman, the physician that prescribes the drug, and the drug itself, in order to understand the construction of this relationship within the public health context. (bvsalud.org)

Osbourne, who has fought substance abuse for a long time, hired Dr Kipper as his personal doctor in June 2002 to help to him beat addiction to prescription drugs. (telegraph.co.uk)
The initiative would do three things: mandate drug testing for doctors to prevent physician substance abuse, require physicians to use a state prescription drug database to catch drug addicts consulting multiple doctors, and eliminate the state's 38-year-old malpractice cap, currently $250,000 for children and others who are not wage earners. (consumerwatchdog.org)
But when physicians are facing personal struggles with something as serious as alcohol and substance abuse that could impact their practice, the issue of transparency is a one-way conversation. (mysuncoast.com)
In 2005, she married a doctor already in recovery for substance abuse. (mysuncoast.com)

In February 2016, the firm acquired Ireland-based drug delivery firm Freund Pharmatech , to expand its manufacturing capacity. (genengnews.com)
Dr. Heilig operated on Davis in 2016 to repair a broken arm. (wkyt.com)

The AMA database, called the Physician Masterfile, is used by Health Information Organizations (HIOs) for data mining and detailing which reveals individual doctors' prescribing profiles to help drug salesmen. (opednews.com)
To establish the identity of the prescribing doctors , pharmaceutical companies rely on the American Medical Association (AMA), which maintains a Physician Masterfile on every U.S. physician. (naturalnews.com)

While supporters of the system say it gives doctors a confidential alternative to discipline while still guarding patient safety, critics argue it puts the protection of doctor reputations ahead of a patient's right to know important details about the physicians making critical decisions about their health. (mysuncoast.com)
At a recent appointment, Katz Sand learned about a patient's drug rationing only after a routine MRI showed new brain lesions that regular treatment might have prevented. (medscape.com)

Fugh-Berman teamed with Shahram Ahari, a former drug representative for Eli Lilly and Co., who now works at the University of California, San Francisco's school of pharmacy. (sott.net)
Ahari, no longer a drug rep, co-wrote the paper with Adriane Fugh-Berman, associate professor of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The paper is based on conversations between Ahari and Fugh-Berman, who researches pharmaceutical marketing. (naturalnews.com)

but at the most basic level, everything is for sale and everything is an exchange," stated former Eli Lilly drug rep Shahram Ahari. (naturalnews.com)

Drug overdoses have accelerated over the past two decades, and in 2017, the United States Department of Health and Human Services deemed the opioid crisis a public health emergency. (cdc.gov)

After treatment completion, he returned to medical practice on condition that he maintain his sobriety and submit to random urine or blood drug screens. (medscape.com)
In addition, he agreed to submit to random drug testing and returned to medical practice. (medscape.com)
Dr Kipper has also been charged with running illegal detoxification programmes for addicts, mostly in the Peninsula Hotel, next to his practice in Beverly Hills. (telegraph.co.uk)
This training is a way to provide physicians and practice staff with tools for broaching the topic with patients," said lead study author Kevin Fiscella, M.D., M.P.H., co-director of the GR-PBRN and professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). (rochester.edu)
By selling the names, office addresses and practice types of almost every doctor in the US to marketing firms the AMA makes $50 million a year charged the National Physicians Alliance, American Medical Student Association and Prescription Project which protested at the Chicago convention. (opednews.com)
Last year, the AMA attempted to stop states from banning such doctor data sales--Vermont just restricted the practice and Maine might be next--by self-policing and creating a Physician Data Restriction Program (PDRP) which lets doctors "opt out" of having their data sold. (opednews.com)
WKYT) - A central Kentucky surgeon who failed a drug test on a day he was operating on patients has a new practice, and former patients are outraged. (wkyt.com)
His talks were on Neurontin, a drug that was approved for epilepsy but that my friend had found helpful for bipolar disorder in his practice. (mindfreedom.org)
Judge sentences Kentucky physician to over four years in federal prison and a $25,000 fine for 15 counts of prescribing opiate pain medication outside of the course of medical practice. (justice.gov)
United States District Court Judge Greg N. Stivers sentenced Franklin, Kentucky, physician, Roy D. Reynolds, to federal prison for 50 months with no probation in the federal system on 15 counts of illegal distribution of controlled substances by way of prescribing opiate pain medications outside of the course of professional medical practice and without a legitimate medical purpose, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. (justice.gov)
This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys David Weiser and Rob Bonar with assistance from paralegals Mary Kennedy and Jane Bauer, and was being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Kentucky State Police, the Kentucky Office of Inspector General, Division of Audits and Investigations, Drug Enforcement and Professional Practice Branch. (justice.gov)
Their goal is to get physicians the help they need to hopefully return to practice, while maintaining public safety. (mysuncoast.com)
Doctor Frank Lucido is retiring from general practice but will maintain his medical cannabis practice + Ethan Nadelmann the founder of the DPA discusses prejudice and the drug war. (drugtruth.net)
During the next 5 or so years, Dr Reinstein continued to practice medicine and to prescribe clozapine, mainly for patients with treatment-resistant mental illness, Campbell continued. (medscape.com)

But experts say , and data show , that the billions of dollars still may create inappropriate relationships and sway doctors to prescribe those companies' medications and devices. (axios.com)

This multi-page article lists pharmaceutical drugs alphabetically by name. (wikipedia.org)
Joel W. Hay, a pharmaceutical economist at USC, credited generics with playing an important role in keeping the overall cost of prescription drugs in check. (latimes.com)
When Leibowitz first applied to the pharmaceutical company for compassionate treatment, he was turned down because of the need for prior knowledge in the medical literature to use the drug in the context they wanted. (jpost.com)
We appreciate the concerns expressed by Marcia Angell in her review of several books addressing the activities of pharmaceutical companies, their relationships with physicians, and the significant impact of those relationships on pharmacologic research and the prescribing of medications. (nybooks.com)
As Angell notes, the provision of money and other valuables by pharmaceutical companies to medical schools, medical societies, and individual physicians has been widely accepted for many years. (nybooks.com)
Specialty pharmaceutical firm Sigmoid is developing its SmPill drug delivery platform to formulate encapsulated drugs for targeted gastrointestinal delivery. (genengnews.com)
Next it admits that it also sells data to Health Information Organizations "for use by pharmaceutical companies" but submits the organizations "have multiple sources of physician data independent of the AMA,"--so they'd get it anyway. (opednews.com)
Pharmaceutical and medical device companies paid $9.1 billion in consulting fees, hotel stays, meals and royalties to physicians and teaching hospitals in 2020, a 16% drop from 2019, according to new data released by the federal government. (axios.com)
In addition, doctors and pharmaceutical companies have been critical of the government for not being willing to immediately correct errors identified in the database, the Wall Street Journal reported . (propublica.org)
Pharmaceutical companies spend more than $15 billion each year promoting prescription drugs in the United States. (naturalnews.com)
Pharmaceutical companies purchase the records and use them to identify high-prescribing doctors. (naturalnews.com)
It highlights ethical concerns from high drug costs, policy proposals that might temper the problem, and how clinicians can adjust to the current reality of pharmaceutical pricing and better advocate for changes to the healthcare system. (medscape.com)

Pfizer made $28.4 million in general payments to doctors in 2020, down 37% from 2019. (axios.com)

I emailed Peter Cegielski, the team leader for drug-resistant TB at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the senior author on the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publication. (cdc.gov)

I have no idea who this Dr. New is, and she may indeed be an unethical, eugenics-minded lunatic. (thestranger.com)
If I gave talks to primary-care doctors about Effexor, I reasoned, I would be doing nothing unethical. (mindfreedom.org)
Do the articles in this weeks BMJ condeming the unethical doctor-drug company relationship, have bearing on drug companies advertising in medical journals? (bmj.com)

These patients "deserve to have doctors in charge of their treatment who are dedicated and vigilant, just as these victims were in their service to our country. (medscape.com)
Wealthier patients tended to take the more costly drug omeprazole, found in Prilosec. (eurekalert.org)
They are widely prescribed but are so addictive that doctors have been told repeatedly that patients should not be on them for more than four weeks. (dailymail.co.uk)
The doctor faces charges of gross negligence for over-prescribing drugs to other famous patients. (telegraph.co.uk)
It's all supposed to be posted on a state-run website of "physician profiles" - but many patients would come up empty-handed if they went there to check their doctor's financial relationships. (cpr.org)
In 2019, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Alpalesib (Piqray of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation) as the first and only treatment specifically for patients with a PIK3CA mutation in HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer. (jpost.com)
Many patients in the U.S. struggle to comply with their doctors' orders because they can't afford their medications, yet most doctors fail to discuss drug cost concerns with their patients. (rochester.edu)
The study , published in the Annals of Internal Medicine , suggests physicians and staff are more likely to discuss drug costs with their patients after attending a one-hour training session covering how important drug costs are to patients, how to screen for patients in need, and how to help patients save money on medications. (rochester.edu)
It's important for patients to understand they have options and that their doctor doesn't want the cost of medications to be a burden that prevents them from taking them. (rochester.edu)
Now that Fiscella and his colleagues have shown that training can increase the frequency of drug-cost conversations, their next step will be to see whether those conversations helped patients comply with their doctors' orders. (rochester.edu)
However, patients with MDR-TB are immune to the first line of drugs, and need the second line of toxic drugs. (hindustantimes.com)
Sigmoid said the European deal with Dr. Falk will serve as a springboard to help it advance its pipeline to patients in other territories, including the U.S. and Japan. (genengnews.com)
After WKYT's first investigation, close to 100 patients called and emailed saying they received bad surgeries from Dr. Heilig. (wkyt.com)
Aiims surgery wing professor Dr Sandeep Aggarwal told this newspaper that the OAGB, also known as "mini-gastric bypass" improves metabolic functioning of patients and almost brings to a zero the requirement of medicines for hypertension and diabetes. (asianage.com)
The results also show that OAGB is better post procedure on patients compared to other procedures," said Dr Aggarwal. (asianage.com)
Based on findings of the study, Dr Aggarwal advised that for patients receiving OAGB, regular intake of iron, vitamin, proteins and mineral supplements is necessary. (asianage.com)
Maybe medical journals should examine whether it is ethical to allow drug companies to use their reputation to enhance their profit margin at the patients expense? (bmj.com)
Those patients had medical histories of mental illness, doctor-shopping, and additional risk factors for opiate abuse and addiction. (justice.gov)
Experts including Dr. Sidney Wolfe , the founder of the Health Research Group at the consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen , reacted to the survey, saying, "It does not take a lot of thought or brains to figure out that an impaired doctor practicing medicine poses a risk to their patients. (mysuncoast.com)
Eli Lilly declined to make anyone available for this story, but Schilsky says Eli Lilly called his team, questioning that score of zero and pointing out that the drug is intended for patients with a particular kind of lung cancer. (kunc.org)
Ecolo MP Muriel Gerkens, whose predictions were based on extrapolating the 2001 and 2003 figures for doctors and patients, warned that several areas of Belgium could be left with a serious shortage of doctors. (expatica.com)
The tribunal have allowed the Doctor with a previously clean history to keep his job after weighing the seriousness of the incident with his current role treating patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. (euroweeklynews.com)
So the idea of combining two drugs that address depression and addiction, respectively, is certainly one with merit and may well prove to be highly effective in obese patients in whom depression and hedonic eating are significantly contributing to hyperphagia. (drsharma.ca)
I do however, like the concept of this drug and can't wait to try it on some of my patients, who I can well imagine would benefit. (drsharma.ca)
But I do think that this could indeed be a useful drug for some patients battling obesity - although it is unlikely to be the "magic bullet" for everyone. (drsharma.ca)
Ensuring a fair system for drug pricing and coverage rules that balance the goods of individual patients with the needs of broader populations when resources are limited remains more important than ever," Tsou said. (medscape.com)
Commenting on the statement for Medscape Medical News, Ilana Katz Sand, MD, associate director of the Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City, noted that clinicians are already acutely aware of the effect high drug costs have on their patients' medical decisions. (medscape.com)
She has a number of patients who have rationed their medication or stopped taking it altogether when their co-pays increased or they lost access to a co-pay assistance program because their insurance company chose to cover a still-expensive generic drug with no assistance program over a slightly costlier brand-name medication that comes with patient discounts. (medscape.com)
It's a terrible thing and it's happening to all patients," Katz Sand said, adding that the old credo of 'Yeah, the drug prices are high, but they are covered by insurance' is not a sustainable argument anymore. (medscape.com)
Reinstein abused his position of public trust as a physician and took advantage of the faith and trust of his mentally ill patients in order to enrich himself," Assistant US Attorney Eric S. Pruitt said in the government's sentencing memorandum. (medscape.com)
Dr Reinstein is truly remorseful for his misconduct and the effect it already has had on his family, especially his wife and his former patients," said Campbell. (medscape.com)
By 2003, Dr Reinstein was among the largest prescribers of Clozaril in the United States, and more than 1000 of his patients in and around Chicago were receiving the drug. (medscape.com)
Dr Reinstein did eventually switch patients to a less expensive generic version of the drug, but only after IVAX Pharmaceuticals LLC and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc agreed to pay him consulting fees and finance a clozapine research study carried out by an affiliated entity with a paid assistant specified by the psychiatrist. (medscape.com)
Patients with regular, or fully drug-susceptible TB, are treated with 4 drugs, the so-called first line drugs. (cdc.gov)
These drugs are safe, cheap and effective more than 95 percent of patients can be cured with these drugs, if they take the treatment as prescribed. (cdc.gov)
Patients with MDR TB need to be treated with second-line drugs, which are more toxic, more expensive, and less effective. (cdc.gov)
PETTS was a prospective observational study of patients with MDR TB in 9 countries, studying risk factors for, and the consequences of acquired drug resistance in the treatment of MDR TB. (cdc.gov)

A big contributor to that spike was hepatitis C drug Sovaldi, which cost about $1,000 a pill. (latimes.com)
In 2012, 11 million visits, or an annual visit rate of 49 visits per 1,000 persons, to physician offices for obesity were made by adults aged 20 and over. (cdc.gov)

At the request of the United States, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) voted to control three chemicals used by drug traffickers to produce illicit fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that is driving overdose deaths in the United States. (whitehouse.gov)

The secondary market maintains that its value lays in the niche market its serves consisting of smaller users such as dispensing physicians and small pharmacies, dispensers in rural areas, and buyers of specialty drugs that require special handling. (physiciansnews.com)

Today the Mail exposes the national disgrace of the hidden and ignored epidemic of addiction to prescription drugs, calling for the Government to set up a 24-hour helpline for people hooked on prescription drugs through no fault of their own. (dailymail.co.uk)

In desperation - and in the absence of any help from the health service - she and her husband, a mechanic, cashed in their Isas to pay for her to go into a drugs detox clinic, even though the NHS had effectively been responsible for her needing to be there in the first place. (dailymail.co.uk)
Dr Kipper did not return calls from the Telegraph but has issued a statement saying: "I have only good wishes for Mr Osbourne and for his family and for their good health. (telegraph.co.uk)
Ninety percent of all prescription drug wholesale distribution is conducted by three companies: AmeriSource-Bergen, McKesson, and Cardinal Health. (physiciansnews.com)
The P.E.I. College of Pharmacists is questioning Health Canada rules requiring the prescribing doctor to dispense the abortion drug Mifegymiso, rather than a pharmacist. (cbc.ca)
Health Canada has also stipulated that doctors prescribing the drug are required to take an online training course on the drug. (cbc.ca)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was informed about the potential conflict before any federal funds were expended on Dr. Schatzberg's grant. (nybooks.com)
Dr Amir appeared on Lorraine to discuss the health risks associated with the weight loss drug causing controversy right now. (yahoo.com)
The big topic at the American Medical Association's annual meeting this summer was not Michael Moore's expose of the health care industry but physician groups' expose of AMA data profiteering. (opednews.com)
Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. (opednews.com)
The average maximal dose of phentermine was above that approved in the package insert, and these physicians disagreed with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Obesity Treatment Guidelines. (researchgate.net)
InvestigateTV) -- When it comes to the doctors you trust, you tell them everything to help make decisions to best protect your health. (mysuncoast.com)
The debate looms over Physician Health Programs , or PHPs, which are operated in nearly every state in the U.S. and the District of Columbia. (mysuncoast.com)
Others, including the Maryland Physician Health Program , put the number even higher, saying, "More recent data estimates that 12 to 16% of physicians suffer from alcoholism, drug abuse or emotional or mental disorders, a rate similar to the general population. (mysuncoast.com)
A recent survey of healthcare professionals done by the health company, All Points North , discovered that 14% of doctors admitted to drinking alcohol or using controlled substances at work. (mysuncoast.com)
Dr. Chris Bundy , the executive medical director of the Washington Physicians Health Program , said, "Despite the fact that we might like to think of them as superheroes, they get sick like everybody else, and when they do, the option for therapy and treatment should be available to them, just like any other patient. (mysuncoast.com)
That treatment is available in almost every state and Washington, D.C. through those Physician Health Programs, which are known by different names depending on the state. (mysuncoast.com)
Synthetic drugs are killing people across the globe, straining our public health systems, and emboldening drug producers and traffickers who use their illicit profits to destabilize countries where they operate," said Dr. Gupta. (whitehouse.gov)
The Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats will help accelerate efforts against illicit synthetic drugs and employ coordinated approaches to prevent illicit drug manufacturing, detect emerging drug threats, disrupt trafficking, address illicit finance, and respond to public safety and public health impacts. (whitehouse.gov)
Ministers and Secretaries of Health and Senior Officials from Canada, Mexico, and the United States gathered at the White House for the North American Drug Dialogue (NADD) Public Health Summit to coordinate a trilateral approach to the negative health impact of illicit synthetic drugs use throughout North America. (whitehouse.gov)
The study was conducted with sixteen women that were anxiolytic users and eight physicians that worked in different public health units of the city of Natal/RN. (bvsalud.org)
The interview with the health professionals focused on their view of the drug and the user, and included questions regarding user complaints, the proposed treatment, drug effectiveness, use of other treatment resources, and the dynamics of the physician-woman relationship. (bvsalud.org)
NIDA supports research on the health aspects of drug use and addiction. (medlineplus.gov)
This was appealing because I wanted to address the ways that our society and health care systems neglect addiction and to work to change the criminalization of people who take drugs. (medlineplus.gov)
Published studies have shown that workplace exposures to hazardous drugs can cause both acute and chronic health effects such as skin rashes, adverse reproductive outcomes, and possibly leukemia and other cancers. (cdc.gov)
This group charged themselves to develop a NIOSH policy document that made a clear statement about the presumed health effects associated with hazardous drugs. (cdc.gov)
Characteristics of the drugs themselves (e.g., generic ingredients, composition status, etc.) are obtained from the Drug Product Information File, maintained and marketed by the American Druggist Blue Book Data Center, and from the National Drug Code Directory, produced by the National Center for Drugs and Biologics of the U.S. Public Health Service. (cdc.gov)

She said she's not aware of any other drugs on which similar restrictions have been placed, and she noted doctors' offices on P.E.I. are not set up to be able to dispense drugs. (cbc.ca)
He told me that I would go around to doctors' offices during lunchtime and talk about some of the features of Effexor. (mindfreedom.org)
I would be paid $500 for one-hour "Lunch and Learn" talks at local doctors' offices, or $750 if I had to drive an hour. (mindfreedom.org)
Introduction The (NAMCS) is a national survey of patient visits to physicians' offices. (cdc.gov)

There was this one lung cancer drug in particular made by Eli Lilly. (kunc.org)

The prescribing doctor is going to have to have access to that medication. (cbc.ca)
Physicians really don't have an infrastructure in place to be able to bill a patient for a medication,' she said. (cbc.ca)
But, of course with any drug, any medication. (yahoo.com)
Sure, Wyeth would benefit, but so would other doctors, who would become more educated about a good medication. (mindfreedom.org)
The easiest way to lookup drug information, identify pills, check interactions and set up your own personal medication records. (drugs.com)
Subscribe to Drugs.com newsletters for the latest medication news, new drug approvals, alerts and updates. (drugs.com)
The drug rep then asks the doctor to prescribe the medication based on his or her own explanation (to the sales rep) of the journal articles. (naturalnews.com)

A review of the survivors' medical records revealed that a significant number suffered from chronic heartburn and were taking an inexpensive drug called famotidine, the key ingredient in Pepcid. (eurekalert.org)
Typically, to find out whether a drug is effective in treating a particular medical condition, scientists develop prospective clinical trials. (eurekalert.org)
They are the forgotten victims of medical incompetence, the secret army of innocent addicts - hundreds of thousands of them - hooked on drugs prescribed by their doctors for pain, anxiety, sleeplessness or depression. (dailymail.co.uk)
While Osbourne is recovering after an almost fatal crash on his quad-bike at his home in Buckinghamshire, Dr David Kipper could have his licence revoked by the medical board in California after an investigation of his methods. (telegraph.co.uk)
Doctors who fail to disclose face fines and potential action by the state medical board. (cpr.org)
They, and others in the medical community and even the state agency, DORA, agree that the issue is that doctors are just unaware of the 3-year-old law. (cpr.org)
Dr. Michael Pramenko is president of the Colorado Medical Society, the state's largest physician's organization. (cpr.org)
The unnamed 38-year-old male doctor had been airlifted to Frankfurt in early October, five days after the onset of Ebola symptoms, and admitted to a Biosafety 4 facility, the highest level of medical security, the study said. (medindia.net)
Proponents of the ballot initiative call it the Troy and Alana Pack Patient Safety Act, or Pack Act for short, but if it makes it onto the November ballot, it will appear under the heading 'Drug and Alcohol Testing of Doctors/Medical Negligence Lawsuits. (consumerwatchdog.org)
Skeptical doctors who favor evidence over charm are approached respectfully, supplied with reprints from the medical literature and wooed as teachers," they wrote. (sott.net)
The remarkable thing is how effective a very brief visit by a drug representative - most often less than five minutes - can be in influencing physicians' choices to use a drug for an unapproved indication," Dr. Michael Steinman of the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center said in a statement. (sott.net)
The information is used, "to increase the sales of specific drugs, many of which are no more effective than much-cheaper alternatives," said Santa, an internist at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, not "to improve quality or safety. (opednews.com)
He had surgery with Dr. Heilig for a broken foot two weeks before Dr. Heilig lost his privileges at Clark Regional Medical Center for failing a drug test. (wkyt.com)
The social services package would allow drug-price negotiation in Medicare and create new Medicare-funded graduate medical education residency positions. (aao.org)
The portrayal of running athletes next to a drug treating arthritis or a happy smiling person next to an antidepressant in a prestigious medical journal may lead to tendencies of some doctors to prescribe drugs which are not indicated. (bmj.com)
It is, however, sending a doctor to federal prison who became a drug dealer with a medical license. (justice.gov)
RICHARD SCHILSKY: You know, where I worked in an academic medical center for just about 30 years, I had no idea what the drugs cost. (kunc.org)
KESTENBAUM: Schilsky today is the chief medical officer of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, which recently decided it would be good to have a kind of database of cancer drugs. (kunc.org)
As previously reported by Medscape Medical News , state authorities revoked the medical license of Dr Reinstein in August 2014, claiming that he had received illegal direct and indirect remuneration from three companies involved in the manufacture and marketing of brand-name and, later, generic clozapine. (medscape.com)
Terence Campbell, Dr Reinstein's defense attorney, argued that the loss of his medical licen se, together with his client's age, absolutely guarantees that Dr Reinstein will never again work as a physician. (medscape.com)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the meaning of and the function attributed to anxiolytic drugs by women users and medical general practitioners. (bvsalud.org)
DSN: CC37.NAMCS90.DRUG ABSTRACT This report provides documentation for users of the 1990 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) Micro-Data Tapes for Drug Mentions. (cdc.gov)

Distribution of prescription drugs is regulated by a body of inter-related federal and state laws establishing a regulatory patchwork for the drug distribution industry. (physiciansnews.com)
Dr. Mayer Davidson has long been frustrated by the rising cost of prescription drugs, especially in his area of expertise - diabetes. (latimes.com)
Davidson had contacted me after I wrote last week about rising prices of name-brand and generic prescription drugs. (latimes.com)
Spending on prescription drugs overall rose 12.6% last year, or five times the 2.5% growth the year before, according to Medicare actuaries. (latimes.com)
Drugs.com provides accurate and independent information on more than 24,000 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines and natural products. (drugs.com)

Interactions between the drugs I take and cannabis? (drugs.com)

Specialist physicians may have prescribing habits that are different from nonspecialist physicians. (researchgate.net)
Little is known about the prescribing habits of physicians specializing in the treatment of obesity. (researchgate.net)

inTrODUCTiOn One common treatment of the obesity epidemic involves the use of drugs (Hampp et al. (researchgate.net)
reported that obesity specialists frequently prescribed, in humans, a triple drug combination (Phen, 5-HTP, and CB) for the treatment of obesity. (researchgate.net)
Addiction Drug for Obesity? (drsharma.ca)
This week, Orexigen , a biopharmaceutical company in La Jolla, CA, announced that it won a patent covering its obesity drug Contrave. (drsharma.ca)

Mutations associated with resistance to many of the anti-TB drugs have been described (8,9). (cdc.gov)
Molecular DR tests for other anti-TB drugs are much less developed than the tests for rifampin resistance. (cdc.gov)
In fact, there are about 14 different classes of anti-TB drugs, all with different tuberculocidal or tuberculostatic effects, as well as toxicity profiles. (cdc.gov)

FX06 is "a potentially valuable therapeutic candidate" for fighting the disease, the authors said, calling for the drug to be assessed in clinical trials. (medindia.net)
Commenting on the Dr. Falk agreement, Ivan Coulter, Ph.D., Sigmoid CEO, said, "I look forward to partnering with a company that has the knowledge, experience, and deep clinical and commercial insights that Dr. Falk Pharma possesses through what I believe will be a transformational collaboration for Sigmoid. (genengnews.com)
Given my clinical experiences with the drug, I wondered whether his positive opinion had been influenced by the money he was paid to give talks. (mindfreedom.org)

For example, because research on children is fraught with ethical challenges, very few medications of any kind have been tested on children and thereby approved for pediatric use by the Food and Drug Administration. (nybooks.com)
However, during the first five week period, Reynolds prescribed more opiate pain medications than any other Simpson County physician prescribed during 2013. (justice.gov)
Out-of-pocket costs for neurologic medications have risen dramatically over the past decade, with the fastest rise reported among drugs for multiple sclerosis. (medscape.com)
In 1980, 1981, and 1985, and continuously from 1989, the NAMCS encounter form included a question which asked for a listing of all drugs/medications ordered, administered or provided during the visit. (cdc.gov)

Savannah, GA - A Coffee County, Georgia, physician has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after he admitted to participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed massive amounts of addictive controlled substances from pain management and addiction clinics. (irs.gov)
Dr. Wallace Steven Anderson, of Douglas, Georgia, was sentenced to 60 months in prison after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Unlawfully Distribute and Dispense Schedule IV Controlled Substances, said David H. Estes, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. (irs.gov)
In addition to the 9-month sentence, ordered by US District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, Dr Reinstein was ordered to f orfe it $592,000 and perform 120 hours of community service following his release from federal prison. (medscape.com)
Campbell argued that rather than send a first-time offender with no history of illegal drug abuse to prison, Dr Reinstein should, at worst, be sentenced to home or community confinement, where he could continue his volunteer work and care for his wife, who also is undergoing treatment for cancer. (medscape.com)

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors in Wuhan noticed something surprising. (eurekalert.org)

For 16 years this grandmother of two battled an addiction to benzodiazepines, tranquillisers prescribed by her doctors to treat hip pain and insomnia. (dailymail.co.uk)
According to records released by the singer's family, while he was under Dr Kipper's care Osbourne was simultaneously taking opiates, tranquillisers, amphetamines, antidepressants and anti-psychotic pills. (telegraph.co.uk)
One drugs specialist at the University of Southern California said: "The doctor was stimulating him with uppers and knocking him down with tranquillisers. (telegraph.co.uk)

Marijuana is one of the most commonly used illegal drugs. (familydoctor.co.nz)

For physicians, this trend poses a particular problem because it coincides with the larger patient safety debate and competes for scarce resources to remedy a problem that many believe is a largely a consequence of the drug distribution industry's unwillingness to comply with existing laws. (physiciansnews.com)

We're also told that selling doctor data facilitates "efficient drug recalls," and "Food and Drug Administration's ongoing post-approval assessment of drug benefits versus risks"--kind of like a private/public partnership but with all private benefits--and it even helped rebuild patient records after Hurricane Katrina. (opednews.com)
To support the Administration's efforts to save lives and disrupt drug trafficking, President Biden has requested a historic $46.1 billion from Congress for national drug control programs. (whitehouse.gov)

See more stories on this topic from NPR, and search ProPublica's database to see if your doctor is getting drug company money. (cpr.org)

But these are not the only drugs behind the hidden epidemic of prescription pill dependence. (dailymail.co.uk)
The Biden-Harris Administration has made addressing global illicit drug trafficking and cracking down on transnational organized crime a key priority in the efforts to beat the overdose epidemic. (whitehouse.gov)
The drug overdose epidemic is occurring in and impacting workplaces. (cdc.gov)

The effectiveness of the PDMA turns on a few crucial provisions that provide the tools by which the federal government controls counterfeit drugs. (physiciansnews.com)
Cars T, Lindhagen L, Malmström R, Neovius M, Schwieler J, Wettermark B, Sundström J. Effectiveness of Drugs in Routine Care: A Model for Sequential Monitoring of New Medicines using Dronedarone as Example. (janusinfo.se)

In 2011, Reynolds prescribed 132,372 oxycodone pills (second most prescribed oxycodone pills by a primary care physician in Simpson County was 9,765) and in 2012 Reynolds prescribed 139,667 pills (second most oxycodone pills prescribed by a primary care physician in Simpson County was 11,794). (justice.gov)
As street drugs, depressants come in pills or capsules and are usually swallowed. (medlineplus.gov)

Two employees at the clinics, Bridgett Stephanie Taylor, of Broxton, Ga., a Nurse Practitioner who worked under Anderson, and Wandle Keith Butler, of Douglas, a Physician Assistant who worked under Anderson, were sentenced in August 2022 after each pled guilty to Conspiracy to Unlawfully Distribute and Dispense Schedule IV Controlled Substances. (irs.gov)
In 2022, approximately 110,000 Americans died from a drug overdose. (cdc.gov)

But all the doctors we spoke to, like Dr. Young, say they support the financial disclosure requirement. (cpr.org)
Dr. Volkow spoke with us about why she decided to pursue this line of work, her love of the brain, and her passion for addiction policy reform. (medlineplus.gov)

The Prince Edward Island College of Pharmacists is questioning the rules attached to an abortion drug recently approved for use in Canada. (cbc.ca)
The P.E.I. College of Pharmacists says having a physician write a prescription which would then be filled by a pharmacist would have been 'the ideal scenario. (cbc.ca)

A psychiatrist who has taken thousands of dollars in psychiatric drug company pay-offs to present promotional speeches about their products exposes some of the techniques, and promises never to behave that way again. (mindfreedom.org)
As a research psychiatrist, Dr. Volkow uses brain imaging to study how substance use affects the brain. (medlineplus.gov)

Davidson had reason for hope after he and colleagues came across research suggesting that a World War II-vintage malaria drug called Plaquenil, or hydroxychloroquine, could improve the blood-sugar counts of people with Type 2 diabetes. (latimes.com)

The new Open Payments database of industry payments to doctors and teaching hospitals is more incomplete than previously known. (propublica.org)
More than half a million doctors and about 1,360 teaching hospitals received at least one payment. (propublica.org)

To support filling scripts beyond first fill, McKesson has joined IntegratedRx™-Oncology, a clinically integrated program developed by Prime Therapeutics that streamlines the treatment pathway and connects the patient to the physician for continuous care. (mckesson.com)

Recent advances in the understanding of the molecular basis or genetics of drug resistance have enabled development of rapid, DNA-based, molecular tests to detect mutations associated with drug resistance. (cdc.gov)
If a mutation thought to be associated with resistance is detected in such a rapid test, the bacteria are considered to be drug resistant. (cdc.gov)
These tests have been referred to in various publications as genetic or molecular drug-susceptibility tests, genetic or molecular detection of drug resistance tests, molecular tests to detect drug (or antimicrobial or antibiotic)-resistance mutations, or tests to detect molecular or genetic markers of drug resistance. (cdc.gov)
In this report, the tests will be referred to simply as molecular drug-resistance (DR) tests. (cdc.gov)
The critical contribution of molecular DR tests for TB treatment and control is earlier detection of resistance: they can reliably detect mutations associated with drug resistance in 1 to 2 days. (cdc.gov)
The story of drug resistance in TB is paralleled in many other bacteria over use and improper use of antibiotics stimulates drug resistance, which makes treatment of bacterial infections more difficult. (cdc.gov)
By testing for resistance to second-line drugs, which was not routinely done in many places at that time, they found XDR TB in all regions tested. (cdc.gov)
Rapidly, the definition of XDR TB was revised to reflect resistance to the 4 best drugs for TB as I described before. (cdc.gov)

These drugs are known to cause side effects such as hearing loss, kidney impairment and psychiatric disorders. (hindustantimes.com)

He sacked Dr Kipper in September, after learning of the official investigation. (telegraph.co.uk)
Fifty-five drug wholesalers in Florida alone are under investigation for counterfeit drug activities. (physiciansnews.com)

Just as the recent "mad cow" scare eroded public confidence in the presumed integrity of the meat distribution industry, ongoing counterfeit drug incidents and associated recalls have called into question the reliability of the drug distribution systems. (physiciansnews.com)
Within the past two years, the FDA has issued multiple recalls and safety alerts for such well known brand name drugs as Lipitor (cholesterol), Procrit (cancer anemia), Epogen (AIDS/cancer), and Serostim (growth hormone). (physiciansnews.com)

Currently, there are about 35 lawsuits in progress against Dr. Michael Heilig. (wkyt.com)

Through President Biden's Executive Order on Imposing Sanctions on Foreign Persons Involved in the Global Illicit Drug Trade , the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated more than 150 individuals and entities for their role in the illicit drug trade, including trafficking fentanyl and precursor chemicals. (whitehouse.gov)

The best 2 of these drugs are rifampin and isoniazid. (cdc.gov)

Some people use the drugs, especially amphetamines, to help them stay awake on the job or to study for a test. (medlineplus.gov)

It is originally a diabetes drug. (yahoo.com)

In fact, extensive documentation sent to Senator Grassley and available online to the public since June 2008 ( ucomm.stanford.edu/news/conflict_of_interest_schatzerg_grassley.html ) shows that both Stanford University and Dr. Schatzberg did comply with all rules regarding disclosure and management of Dr. Schatzberg's conflict. (nybooks.com)
Watch Dr. Sharma in the News! (drsharma.ca)

Other counterfeit drugs may be generic copies of brand name drugs that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved for use in the United States. (physiciansnews.com)

Such proposals would allow medicines from foreign countries - medicines that have not undergone stringent review by the U.S. Food and Drug Association (FDA) - into the country. (phrma.org)
BRUSSELS - Belgium could be hit by a shortage of doctors and new medicines in the near future, it was reported on Friday. (expatica.com)

He asked me if I'd like to give talks to other doctors about using Effexor XR for treating depression. (mindfreedom.org)

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