Archive: 01/09/2016
CVS to pay Massachusetts $795K, tighten policies for opioids
CVS Health Corp. has agreed to pay Massachusetts $795,000 and will tighten its policies for dispensing opioids following an investigation into its drug prescription practices, Attorney General Maura Healey said Thursday.
Sep 1, 2016
Life and death: Team finds hospital readmissions sometimes save lives
A group of Johns Hopkins physicians and researchers today published an article in the Journal of Hospital Medicine suggesting that data on mortality and hospital readmission used by the United States Centers for Medicare ...
Sep 1, 2016
Illness linked to imported produce finds foothold in Texas
Health officials are trying to determine why there's been a dramatic increase in the number of people in Texas each year who contract a food-borne illness that's often linked to produce imported from Mexico and other warmer ...
Sep 1, 2016
Elotuzumab in multiple myeloma: Added benefit not proven
The monoclonal antibody elotuzumab has been approved in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone since May 2016 for further treatment of multiple myeloma in adults who have received at least one previous treatment. ...
Sep 1, 2016
Immersion pulmonary edema may cause swimming deaths during triathlons
Heart abnormalities linked to immersion pulmonary edema were present in a greater-than-expected proportion of triathletes who died during the competition's swim portion, according to a study led by researchers at Duke Health.
Sep 1, 2016
Safety net programs don't support high rates of trauma in participants
New research by the Center for Hunger-Free Communities at Drexel University shows that participants in a federal assistance program for families living in poverty have overwhelmingly high levels of adversity and exposure ...
Sep 1, 2016