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TULSA, Okla., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Attorney Thomas Scott Woodward announced today that Cardinal Health Pharmacy Services, LLC, a company engaged in providing hospital pharmacy management services, has agreed to pay a civil penalty in the amount of $1 million for failing to account for large amounts of missing prescription drugs. Cardinal Health Pharmacy Services, LLC, has agreed to pay the civil penalty to settle allegations by the government that two pharmacies that it...
Study is first to examine how overdose risk differs by prescribed doseMore and more Americans with chronic pain not caused by cancer are taking medically prescribed opioids like Oxycontin (oxycodone) and Vicodin (hydrocodone). The January 19 Annals of Internal Medicine features the first study to explore the risk of overdose in patients prescribed opioids for chronic noncancer pain in general health care. The study links risk of fatal and nonfatal opioid overdose to prescription...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- If you are looking for the best way to save money on your prescription drugs then FREEDRUGCARD.US is your best option. The free prescription assistance drug card program is sponsored by a non-profit organization and was launched to help all Americans lower the cost of prescription drugs. This program is open to all Americans and there is no enrollment required and no restrictions to access the prescription assistance program. FREEDRUGCARD.US has just...
Police in Florida said a pharmacy robbery suspect was arrested after allegedly cycling home from the crime and asking his mother for a ride to a store. Investigators said James Lachenauer, 19, brandished a revolver Monday at the Medication Station Pharmacy in Boynton Beach and instructed employees to fill his black backpack with powerful painkillers, including morphine, oxycontin, oxycodone and hydrocodone, the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported Tuesday. The police report of the incident said...
Children with arm fractures fared as well with ibuprofen to control their pain as acetaminophen with codeine, according to a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Children's Research Institute.The study, which was led by Amy Drendel, D.O., assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical College, will appear in the Aug. 18, 2009, issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Drendel also is a pediatric emergency medicine specialist at Children's...
A U.S. government advisory panel says it recommends a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, which contain acetaminophen, because of their effects on the liver. The two drugs combine a narcotic with acetaminophen -- the ingredient found in Tylenol and Excedrin -- and high doses of acetaminophen are a leading cause of liver damage, The New York Times reported. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel said patients who take Percocet and Vicodin over longer periods often need higher and higher doses...
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ETHEX Corporation, a subsidiary of KV Pharmaceutical (NYSE: KVa/KVb), is issuing, as previously disclosed by KV Pharmaceutical Company on January 26, 2009, a nationwide voluntary recall of the products identified below (all lots within their expiration dates) at a wholesale or a retail level as a precautionary measure because they may have been manufactured under conditions that did not sufficiently comply with current Good Manufacturing...
Prescription-drug abuse is rising in parts of the United States as the economy falls, drug-rehabilitation and law-enforcement officials said. We're seeing an extreme uptick in the abuse of pharmacological drugs, said Jeff Benz, a founder of Mainstream Kansas City Inc., an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center in Bonner Springs, Kan. We have noticed it for several years, but it really became more pronounced in the last few months, he said. The use of addictive pain relievers and mood...
US-based healthcare company Abbott Laboratories has received a complete response letter from the FDA for its new drug application for a controlled-release form of hydrocodone with acetaminophen. Abbott is evaluating the FDA complete response letter. The company said that it will discuss the letter with the FDA and will provide an update when appropriate. Abbott is seeking the approval of controlled-release hydrocodone with acetaminophen as the first extended release medication in the class...
Q. Last night, my boyfriend became so violent, I was afraid he was going to hit my 22-year-old daughter or me. He threatened to burn down our home, and he tried to kick me out. I just realized that he started changing in the past two weeks right after he started taking Chantix to quit smoking. He has never acted like this before. He was so threatening and said such cruel and hateful things. I read on your Web site about possible violence and aggression from a combination of Chantix and...
