Q. Shouldn't doctors take into account body size when prescribing drugs?
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He was convicted in May of hundreds of counts of illegally prescribing drugs.
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"If a pharmacist is cheating and illegally prescribing drugs, you can prosecute them," he said.
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In McCrae's view, today's approach to prescribing drugs, the so-called population-based approach, is harmful.
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Doctors are permitted to practice medicine as they see fit, including prescribing drugs for unapproved uses.
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Most are given radiation, but prescribing drugs to counter the effects of male hormones has been inconsistent.
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The sites invert the usual practice of medicine by turning the act of prescribing drugs into a service.
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Prescribing drugs for conditions like high blood pressure or steroids for low muscle mass doesn't make sense to Glassman.
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That includes, he said, prescribing drugs to a patient's family member who is not one of the doctor's patients.
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Court papers state Snellgrove began prescribing drugs to Roberts as early as 2005 and knew the guitarist had addiction problems.
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Earlier this year, the Independent Payment Advisory Board recommended that we change the way doctors were compensated for prescribing drugs.
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If a doctor does end up prescribing drugs, patients should take their dosage as indicated, and never save or share antibiotics.
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The company simplifies the process of prescribing drugs, delivers medications to patients and enables better cost transparency through its provider-patient platform.
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It's also unclear if the letters helped doctors avoid prescribing drugs to patients who could be harmed — or just reduced prescribing altogether.
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A Virginia doctor who was convicted of more than 800 counts of illegally prescribing drugs has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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But honest and open conversations with the dying should be as much a part of modern medicine as prescribing drugs or fixing broken bones.
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Without commenting on this case directly, Huntley also confirms that state law prohibits doctors from prescribing drugs intended for one person under another's name.
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Another group of researchers also urged restraint in prescribing drugs to children to improve height in a 203 article in The Journal of Pediatrics.
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And the drug companies argue, persuasively, that prescribing drugs for off-label uses is not only widespread but regularly alleviates illness and saves lives.
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If these were two doctors prescribing drugs, you'd certainly need to tell them about each other, in order to avoid unfortunate drug interactions, say.
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"The NFL needs to sort of look at what they're doing a bit different – one, they're prescribing drugs that are very dangerous," Monroe told Hill.
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A doctor in Virginia could spend the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted of more than 800 counts of illegally prescribing drugs.
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In Jackson's case, a number of doctors crossed the line by prescribing drugs that were not medically necessary, in order to ingratiate themselves with the singer.
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Prosecutors said Tseng's conviction after a six-week trial marked the first time in which a U.S. physician was found guilty of murder for over-prescribing drugs.
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They are being rewarded financially under the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid for keeping patients healthy, and this goes beyond simply performing medical procedures and prescribing drugs.
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It is a common cause of disturbed sleep in the elderly, and treatment varies from replenishing the deficient vitamin to prescribing drugs that alter neurotransmitters in the brain.
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Since psychiatrists are an underrepresented specialty in certain areas of the country, primary care doctors, ob/gyns and other doctors are increasingly prescribing drugs for mental illness, Krakower explained.
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Dean exchanged text and Facebook messages with "sexual content" about underwear while prescribing drugs to one woman, the indictment against him shows, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Helping them is not a matter of prescribing drugs but rather teaching them to set goals and work toward returning to an active life, even if they still have pain.
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Joel Smithers, who was convicted of 247 counts of illegally prescribing drugs, had faced between 2600 years and life in prison, the US Department of Justice said in a news release.
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That goes a bit beyond standard oncology practices of looking at the type or location of tumors, such as lung or gastric cancers, and prescribing drugs already approved for those diagnoses.
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She was told by staffers at the clinic that they would continue prescribing drugs to her if she wanted, but they were also going to prescribe a group therapy session of sorts.
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Starting in 2017, CMS would expand its pilot, testing what happens when doctors are paid extra for prescribing drugs with higher success rates and when patient cost-sharing is discounted or eliminated.
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Tester's office had publicized the accusations that Jackson had been lax with prescribing drugs, including opioids, was drunk during foreign trips where he was supposed to be on call and had a pattern of unprofessional leadership in office.
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For example, racial bias is endemic within the management of the opioid crisis in the U.S.; white sufferers are benefitting from doctors prescribing drugs to treat their problems while black sufferers are either ignored or denied appropriate medication.
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But its underappreciation is leading educators to separate boys and girls into single-sex classrooms in order to accommodate their different brains, and physicians to consider sex, instead of more relevant factors such as body weight, when prescribing drugs.
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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week announced a slew of charges against two Chinese nationals for manufacturing and shipping fentanyl and other synthetic opioids across the globe, in addition to banning two opioid-selling American doctors from prescribing drugs.
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At the root of the opioid epidemic, Kolodny said, have been mostly well-meaning doctors, swept up in a culture of prescribing drugs they initially thought were safer than they were -- in part due to the marketing and reassurances of pharmaceutical companies.
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But it is illegal in Arkansas for a nurse practitioner — basically, a registered nurse with a graduate degree — to treat patients without the supervision of a doctor, and nurse practitioners are banned from prescribing drugs needed to treat people suffering from diabetes.
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Overwhelmingly, the gynecologists I spoke to for this story emphasized the importance of validating patients' experiences, which Dutton says has become more common as gynecology and the medical field at large have evolved away from a paternalistic approach to prescribing drugs with limited patient input.
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"Representatives offered their individual views on the new policy, ... [including] concerns about the complexity and challenges their organizations' members have faced in prescribing drugs for patients covered by plans that use prior authorization or step therapy," an HHS spokesperson wrote in a statement released Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Southern California doctor was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Friday for over-prescribing drugs that caused the fatal overdose of three patients in a murder case capped by the first conviction of its kind in the United States.
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Patients may not be able to stop their out-of-pocket costs from going up, but they can try to shop around for insurance that lowers their bills and they can also ask their health providers to take cost into account when prescribing drugs or recommending treatment plans, said Dr. Laura Hawks of Harvard Medical School, in Boston, and the Cambridge Health Alliance.
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Patients may not be able to stop their out-of-pocket costs from going up, but they can try to shop around for insurance that lowers their bills and they can also ask their health providers to take cost into account when prescribing drugs or recommending treatment plans, said Dr. Laura Hawks of Harvard Medical School, in Boston, and the Cambridge Health Alliance.
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Its advice to primary care on prescribing drugs such as proton pump inhibitors has been criticised as wasteful.
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Sales have continued to grow as CPS remains the most comprehensive and frequently used reference for safely and accurately prescribing drugs in Canada.
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This discovery drastically reduced the adverse effects and improved the efficacy of protease inhibitors and HAART. However, because of the general role of CYP3A4 in xenobiotic metabolism, dosing with ritonavir also affects the efficacy of numerous other medications, adding to the challenge of prescribing drugs concurrently.
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"Conflict of Interest" could include disclosing whether they are a paid consultant for or have been trained by a drug company when prescribing drugs. She argued that as doctors have to disclose this information to their employers each year, the General Medical Council should be able provide this detail to members of the public. Her proposal was backed by Ben Goldacre, Trish Groves and Iain Chalmers. As part of this campaign, McCartney and colleagues set up the website whopaysthisdoctor.
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These adverse drug reactions result in an estimated economic cost of $136 billion per year. Polymorphisms (genetic variations) in individuals affect drug metabolism and therefore an individual's response to a medication. Examples of ways in which genetics may affect an individual's response to drugs include: drug transporters, metabolism and drug interactions. Pharmacogenetics may be used in the near future by public health practitioners to determine the best candidates for certain drugs, thereby reducing much of the guesswork in prescribing drugs.
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The inspectors had an important role in the early days of drug abuse, when some doctors were accused of over-prescribing drugs of dependence. Some inspectors, for instance, Henry Bryan "Bing" Spear, were of historical importance. Bing Spear was employed by the Home Office Drugs Branch from 1952–1986 and was its Chief Inspector from 1977. He was unusual for the time (maybe even today) for a civil servant in that he had an informal approach to both the addicts and the doctors who treated them.
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Research has shown that, on average, there is around a 20% discrepancy between medications prescribed on admission to hospital and the true medication list for a given patient. Chronic medications are stopped in about 11% of the patients after elective surgeries and 33% of the patients after admission to intensive care unit. The most common omissions are inhalers and analgesia. There are also a small minority of errors in prescribing drugs such as insulin or warfarin, which could have catastrophic consequences including death of the patient.
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A 2006 review article by S. Modi and D. Lowder offers some general guidelines on when a physician should consider prescribing drugs for migraine prevention: Preventive medication has to be taken on a daily basis, usually for a few weeks, before the effectiveness can be determined. Supervision by a neurologist is advisable. A large number of medications with varying modes of action can be used. Selection of a suitable medication for any particular patient is a matter of trial and error, since the effectiveness of individual medications varies widely from one patient to the next.
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In the 1980s the World Health Organization published guidelines for prescribing drugs, including opioids, for different levels of pain. In the U.S., Kathleen Foley and Russell Portenoy became leading advocates for the liberal use of opioids as painkillers for cases of "intractable non-malignant pain". With little or no scientific evidence to support their claims, industry scientists and advocates suggested that chronic pain sufferers would be resistant to addiction. The release of OxyContin in 1996 was accompanied by an aggressive marketing campaign promoting the use of opioids for pain relief.
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This document is intended to assist veterinarians in prescribing drugs, including antimicrobials, in a conscientious way for both animals and public health. In 2014, the CMVA released their Antimicrobial Smartvet App that guides veterinarians through prescribing appropriate antimicrobials for specific bacterial infections in dogs and cats. In Canada two major concerns of ticks are Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF). With global warming ticks are found further north and according to the CMVA, pet owners should increase their awareness of ticks on their pets as the prevalence of diseases carried by ticks is on the increase.
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Measure 51 election results from Oregon Secretary of State Some members of the United States Congress, notably Senator Don Nickles of Oklahoma, tried to block implementation of Measure 16, but failed. In 2002, federal judge Robert E. Jones blocked a move by United States Attorney General John Ashcroft to suspend the license for prescribing drugs covered in the Controlled Substances Act of doctors who prescribed life-ending medications under the Oregon law. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the block, stating that the "Attorney General lacked Congress' requisite authorization". In October 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Gonzales v.
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Healthcare providers can help lower drug prices by helping patients navigate the medication formulary, prescribing drugs covered by formularies, and participating in formulary development through Pharmacy and Therapeutics committees. The formulary system's effectiveness is directly correlated to the education of physicians, pharmacists and patients in understanding the justification of formulary compositions. This education includes drug information monographs to provide adequate resources to physicians in making clinical prescribing decisions, pharmacy education regarding any changes in the formulary, and patient education within the managed care system. Formularies should be easily accessible for patient access as well, such as the online Medicare Planfinder, which is part of the Medicare Part D Plan.
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When confronted with the notes, Epstein told Brown that he would be grateful if Brown did not tell anyone, and that he was sorry he had made Brown worry. He explained that when he wrote the note and composed the will he had simply taken one pill too many, and that he had no intention of overdosing, promising to be more careful in the future. Brown later wrote that he wondered if he had done the right thing by not showing the note to Epstein's doctor, Norman Cowan, who would have stopped prescribing drugs. The coroner, Gavin Thurston, told the Westminster inquest that Epstein's death was caused by an overdose of Carbitral and ruled it as an accidental death.
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Her vacancy in the team is eventually filled by Dr. Martha Masters. Thirteen returns in the show's 150th episode, "The Dig", where House meets her upon release from a prison where she has been incarcerated for the last six months for over-prescribing drugs. She has House drive her to a seemingly random house where she rings the bell, then assaults the man who answers the door. The two then spend a few days on the road preparing for a spud-shooting contest while he tries to figure out the real reason she was in prison, eventually deducing that Thirteen helped kill her brother who was suffering from advanced stages of Huntington's.
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To combat this huge problem, India has instated a new program to try to provide free drugs to all those infected in the country. While RNTCP has created schemes to offer free or subsidized, high quality TB care, less than 1% of private practitioners have taken up these practices. Lastly, as high pricing is linked to the economic standings of India, which is linked to poor treatment, it all underlines the lack of education and background information practitioners and professionals hold for prescribing drugs, or those private therapy sessions. A study conducted in Mumbai by Udwadia, Amale, Ajbani, and Rodrigues, showed that only 5 of 106 private practitioners practicing in a crowded area called Dharavi could prescribe a correct prescription for a hypothetical patient with MDR tuberculosis.
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