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Editorial: Stop the pain-pill plague
Newsday Opinion Newsday > Opinion Editorial Editorial: Stop the pain-pill plague Originally published: November 21, 2011 7:43 PM Updated: November 21, 2011 8:58 PM A doctor said to have prescribed more than 2500 powerful narcotic pills to Medford drugstore … |
Nov 21 2011
Editorial: Stop the pain-pill plague – Newsday
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Nov 21 2011
Retired public workers can count on promised benefits, court says – Los Angeles Times
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Retired public workers can count on promised benefits, court says
Los Angeles Times California Supreme Court rules in an Orange County case that implied contracts covering retirees' healthcare are valid. Justice Marvin Baxter, pictured on Nov. 10, wrote for the court: "Under California law, a vested right to health benefits for … California court's pension ruling could reach far CA court weighs in on retiree health benefits Retired public workers assured promised benefits |
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Nov 21 2011
Bayer May Have Pitched Birth-Control Pill for Unapproved Use – San Francisco Chronicle
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Bayer May Have Pitched Birth-Control Pill for Unapproved Use
San Francisco Chronicle 21 (Bloomberg) — Units of Bayer AG, Germany's largest drugmaker, may have sought to market the Yasmin family of birth- control pills for unapproved uses and misled women about the health risks the drug posed, according to company e-mails. … Bayer May Have Pitched Birth-Control Pill for Unapproved Use Yaz, Yasmin & Ocella: Benefits Over Touted? Bayer emails discuss off-label uses for Yaz, Yasmin |
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Nov 21 2011
Doctor Charged With Selling Prescriptions for Drugs – New York Times
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Doctor Charged With Selling Prescriptions for Drugs
New York Times A doctor suspected of prescribing thousands of painkillers to a man who murdered four people in a Long Island pharmacy pleaded not guilty on Monday in the sale of prescriptions to a Queens man who died of an overdose. … NY pain doctor arrested after man's fatal overdose Doc who prescribed drugs to killer David Laffer turned Queens clinic to drug mill. |
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Nov 21 2011
Logan man faces 20 years for pills – Daily Mail – Charleston
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Logan man faces 20 years for pills
Daily Mail – Charleston He said he sold seven 80-milligram oxycodone pills for $700 in March 2010 to an informant working with the US 119 Task Force. He also admitted to selling four and a half 80-milligram oxycodone pills, with the help of another individual, … Logan County Man Pleads to Federal Oxycodone Charge |
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Nov 21 2011
Police to test tainted ecstasy pills – Otago Daily Times
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Police to test tainted ecstasy pills
Otago Daily Times Hamilton police are trying to establish what was in the pills thought to be Ecstasy that landed six schoolgirls in hospital yesterday. The Fairfield College students, aged between 13 and 15, were acting so aggressively that staff at Waikato Hospital … Ecstasy puts schoolgirls in hospital Six schoolgirls in hospital after taking ecstasy Students in hospital after taking pills |
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Nov 21 2011
Doc who prescribed drugs to killer David Laffer turned Queens clinic to drug mill. – New York Daily News
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Doc who prescribed drugs to killer David Laffer turned Queens clinic to drug mill.
New York Daily News Dr Li, who is said to have prescribed thousands of pills to the Medford, LI pharmacy gunman David Laffer, was arrested and charged with the death of a man who died of an overdose of pills he obtained illegally from Dr. Li. A doctor who supplied drugs … Queens Physician Accused of Selling Pills, Linked to Long Island Murderer David Laffer doc charged in overdose case Doc who 'supplied' LI pharmacy shooter busted in connection with overdoses |
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Nov 21 2011
Brain Cancer Vaccine Shows Positive Results – Medical News Today
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Brain Cancer Vaccine Shows Positive Results
Medical News Today Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDX) announced today that its immunotherapeutic vaccine called Rindopepimut showed positive results in prolonging survival in patients with newly diagnosed EGFRvIII-positive glioblastoma (GB), one of the most … Celldex's brain cancer vaccine promising in trial Celldex: Study Shows Rindopepimut Increases Brain Cancer Survival Celldex's Brain Cancer Vaccine Rindopepimut Shows Positive Results |
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Nov 21 2011
Prattville man arrested for posession of prescription drugs not intended for him – WSFA
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Prattville man arrested for posession of prescription drugs not intended for him
WSFA PRATTVILLE, AL (WSFA) – A Prattville man is behind bars after a search warrant uncovered prescription drugs at his home that were not intended for him. According to the Prattville Police Department, 39-year-old Paul Ashley Smith was arrested for … |
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Nov 21 2011
US healthcare cuts minimal, more pain looms – Reuters
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US healthcare cuts minimal, more pain looms
Reuters WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (Reuters) – The breakdown of deficit talks in Congress will exact little pain on the US healthcare industry, but it's a temporary reprieve from steeper cuts that could be put back on the table in 2013. … As Supercommittee Fails, 'Doc Fix' Looms Supercommittee's Failure to Address SGR Repeal Endangers Health Care AAFP Statement: Select Committee on Deficit Reduction Fails to End Health … |
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