Shedding Light On Payers And PBMs As Possible Drivers Of Opioid Crisis
There is a tendency to overlook the multiple factors and stakeholders that contributed to the Rx opioid crisis. This includes ...
Uptake Of Novel Non-Opioid Drug Suzetrigine Could Benefit From No Pain Act
The No Pain Act will mandate Medicare insurance coverage for non-opioid pain management, including evidence-based treatments, ...
Jury in Baltimore opioid trial to begin deliberating ‘biggest and most important case in the city’s history’
noting that the DEA increased year after year a national threshold for opioid manufacturing in the 2000s, while the medical ...
UConn professors working to treat pain without opioid medication advance new 'tool' through startup
Two orthopedic surgery professors are working to advance a formulation of local anesthesia to help minimize the usage of ...
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FDA Okays Abuse-Deterrent Opioid for Severe Pain
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a 10-mg dose of Roxybond (Protega Pharmaceuticals), an opioid ...
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In pain R&D, Vertex withstood tough times to bring non-opioid suzetrigine to cusp of FDA approval
Two decades ago, when two genetic mutations were discovered in Asia that gave scientists a better idea of how pain sensations ...
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Vertex Flashes A Surprise Buy Point As Non-Opioid Pain Drug Looms
Vertex Pharmaceuticals beat Wall Street's third-quarter expectations, but the real story for Vertex stock is still to come, analysts said Tuesday.Please watch the video at Investors.com - How To Buy ...
What you need to know in Baltimore’s opioid case before it heads to jurors
Baltimore alleges that the companies, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen, flooded the city with hundreds of millions of addictive pain ... opioid painkiller — to pharmacies in and around Baltimore.
The Opioid Crisis: Issues for Health Care Providers
An overview of federal and state laws and legal issues impacting physicians, non-physician practitioners (NPPs), and health ...
‘American Pickers’ star Mike Wolfe gets candid about Frank Fritz’s opioid addiction — and his show exit
Mike Wolfe is shedding light on the life of his late friend Frank Fritz. The two were co-hosts of the History Channel reality ...
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Study finds racial disparities in post-surgical pain management that reduces opioid use
Black patients recovering from major surgery are less likely to receive multimodal analgesia, a pain management approach ...
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First pediatric guideline on opioid prescribing in primary care focuses on preventing overdose
With its emphasis on opioid overdose prevention, the first guideline for primary care providers from the American Academy of Pediatrics on prescribing opioids for acute pain in children and ...