Sentences with phrase «who prescribe drugs»

In other instances, physicians who prescribe drugs with severe interactions or in wrong dosages may be held liable for their actions.

As the death toll from opioid overdoses continues to rise, Erie County is hitting back with a lawsuit against pharmaceutical makers and doctors who prescribe the drugs.

But federal prosecutors allege that Babich and his co-conspirators doled out kickbacks to doctors who prescribed the drug even to non-cancer patients, and even set up a special «reimbursement unit» to sway insurance companies and pharmacy benefits managers to provide coverage for these non-authorized uses.

Other potential lawsuit targets include the pharmacists who prescribed the drugs, though they may have immunity for following doctors» orders.

They will be able to file your Fosamax bone lawsuit against the manufacturer or a doctor who prescribed you the drug.

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For instance, a ProPublica analysis of Medicare's Part D prescription drug program found that doctors who received more industry money were also more likely to prescribe brand name, rather than cheaper generic, drugs.

And doctors, who have little info about how patients pay for drugs, often prescribe what is seen as the latest and greatest, even if the extra benefit is small.

For instance, a ProPublica analysis from last year found that doctors who receive a higher share of payments from drug and device makers are also more likely to prescribe pricier brand name drugs.

Sanofi and Regeneron's new atopic dermatitis drug Dupixent is off to the kind of start drugmakers aim for, judging by the number of doctors who've already prescribed it — and the number of scripts they've written.

Andrew observed a very dangerous trend taking hold: Doctors — who were having new drugs pushed to them by profit - driven pharmaceutical companies — began prescribing extremely powerful and addictive opioid painkillers to patients with almost reckless abandon.

Physician - assisted suicide (PAS) laws such as this authorize physicians to prescribe fatal drugs to terminally ill adults who choose to end their lives.

Clergymen who attempt to manage severe emotional illness in individuals who come to them for help can be as guilty of malpractice as though they attempted to perform an operation or prescribe drugs.

For a $ 200 consultation fee, and $ 1800 more if he is retained, Shavelson will evaluate and certify people who come to him — I refuse to call them his «patients» — as eligible for death, prescribe the lethal drugs, fill out the required bureaucratic forms, and presumably attend their deaths.

Finally, consider the case of Michael Freeland, who had a forty - three - year history of depression and suicide attempts, and yet the physician who prescribed for him the deadly drug did not deem it necessary to refer him for psychiatric evaluation.

EUGENE MONROE: We need to look at alternative methods for managing pain in players, especially the ones who experience injuries at a high rate and who are constantly prescribed these drugs to deal with their pain.

Nursing mothers who are told they must stop breastfeeding because of a certain drug should ask the physician to make sure of this by checking with reliable sources and / or prescribing an alternative safe medication.

The drugs are typically prescribed by lactation consultants — specialists who help women cope with breastfeeding issues — who say the pills can increase prolactin, the hormone responsible for breast - milk production.

Domperidone has been banned in the United States for years because of fatal cardiac arrhythmias among cancer patients who had been prescribed the drug to prevent nausea and vomiting.

The drug metformin is the most common treatment prescribed by health care providers for PCOS and is used to help women who experience difficulty both getting pregnant and maintaining a pregnancy.

Bill Hammond, a health policy analyst with the fiscal watchdog group the Empire Center, agreed that the tax would likely be passed on to patients who need the drugs, including terminally ill people and patients with chronic conditions, as well as addicts who are sometimes prescribed medicines that contain a form of opioid.

«Hydrocodone / oxycontin is the number one prescribed drug for those who are on medicaid, and it's not even close to what the second drug is.

It's probably the number one prescribed drug to those who are on private pay insurance companies as well,» said County Executive Mark Poloncarz, D - Erie County.

She says it would empower the Department of Health to grant licenses to marijuana dispensers to provide the drug to patients, who would be prescribed marijuana to help treat a number of conditions, ranging from cancer, to MS, to seizure disorders.

WHEREAS, opioid addiction often starts in individuals who are prescribed opioid pain medications or who take opioid medication prescribed for other people and may progress to using illegally manufactured drugs, such as heroin; and

Bill Hammond, a health policy analyst with the fiscal watchdog group the Empire Center agrees that the tax would likely be passed on to patients who need the drugs, including terminally ill people and patients with chronic conditions, as well as addicts who are sometimes prescribed medicines that contain a form of an opioid.

The proposed regulations unveiled Thursday deal with everything from how to register and certify the organizations that will grow and dispense the medical pot, the doctors who will prescribe the drug, and the patients who will need to be certified.

The study also found that older people were more likely than younger people to believe it is OK to allow physicians to prescribe life - ending drugs to terminally ill patients who request them, and that the most religious or spiritual people were the least supportive of this idea.

Some 42 percent of U.S. adults who drink have been prescribed a drug that may interact negatively with alcohol.

If the drug were to pan out in clinical trials, it would probably be prescribed as part of a regime including diet change and exercise, says Dow, who stresses that the drug is unlikely to be a magic bullet.

Through the FDA's iPLEDGE program, woman who are prescribed the drug must pledge to use two forms of contraception, in addition to taking regular pregnancy tests while on the drug and online tests to make sure they understand the dangers of getting pregnant while taking the drug.

A clinician and expert on herb - drug interactions, Fugh - Berman thought the information could be useful to clinicians who prescribe warfarin as an anticoagulant.

If 40 percent of MSM who are good candidates for PrEP based on CDC's guidelines were actually prescribed the drug and used it consistently, 33 percent of new HIV infections in this population in the U.S. would be avoided over the next 10 years, the researchers found.

Historically, Loyola physicians have not prescribed rapamycin - class drugs to LAM patients who are on the waiting list for lung transplants.

In a recent study, nearly half of all veterans who died from drug overdoses while prescribed opioids for pain were also receiving benzodiazepines, or benzos, which are common medications for the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and alcohol withdrawal.

Patient records of veterans who died from drug overdoses while receiving medical services as an outpatient at the VHA between October 2004 and September 2009 were examined for the relationship between the opioids and benzodiazepines when prescribed concurrently.

A team of researchers found that D.C. - based health care providers who got gifts — including cash, meals and ownership interests — from pharmaceutical companies prescribed more drugs per patient, wrote more expensive prescriptions and were more likely to recommend brand names.

«It's not so easy to get physicians in the United States to follow recommendations, so it shouldn't come as a big surprise that community health workers and private shopkeepers in some of the world's poorest countries have a hard time diagnosing and prescribing drugs correctly,» says Chris Plowe, who heads the Institute for Global Health (IGH) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

In the new article, Adashi, who has studied the drug in the lab and the clinic and prescribed it thousands of times over the decades, traces the drug's development, path to market and ultimate impact.

Compared to those who did not receive the drugs, patients prescribed antidepressants were predominantly female, older, and more likely to have hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidaemia, obesity and comorbidities.

About 90 percent of patients who have had a heart attack currently receive beta - blockers, a class of drug commonly prescribed to improve survival and prevent future heart attacks.

The good news is we can prevent this problem by stopping the source and treating the troubled,» said co-author and CDC director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. «It is critical that states use effective prescription drug tracking programs so we can improve prescribing practices and help get those who are abusing drugs into treatment.»

Children who had received proton - pump inhibitors, either alone or in combination with a histamine H2 - blocker, had more fractures over the next five years than children who weren't prescribed that type of drug.

Ways should be found to prescribe clean needles and syringes to those who are unable to give up drugs while in prison.

AAMI will remain in limbo until government watchdogs are asked to approve a drug developed to treat it, but one thing at least is clear: if it does become the clinical yardstick for deciding who should be prescribed memory - boosting drugs, the potential market will be astronomical.

«Even before the patient completes all of the MRIs, CT scans and other imaging procedures following diagnosis, we can have a recommendation for which drug and dosage to prescribe,» said Kareem Azab, PhD, an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center member who leads the research.

The authors and editorialist express grave concerns that there will be many needless premature deaths as well as preventable heart attacks and strokes if patients who would clearly benefit from statins are not prescribed the drug, refuse to take the drug, or stop using the drug because of ill - advised adverse publicity about benefits and risks, which may include misplaced concerns about the possible but unproven small risk of diabetes.

Last month, the French government decided to extend a system of fines for doctors who prescribe too much, or for too long, to psychotropic drugs.

In the Web - based, 53 - question survey of 324 American Academy of HIV Medicine members — most of whom are HIV - specializing practitioners — fewer than half reported being «very likely» to prescribe PrEP to their patients who are high - risk heterosexuals or people who use intravenous drugs.

The veterans in the study who misused alcohol were less likely to take their medications as prescribed, more likely to use other drugs and had worse quality of life.

The dilemma for doctors and researchers has been in determining who is at risk of a severe reaction to the drug so that alternative medications can be prescribed.