Federal officials, advocates push pill-tracking databases
The nation's top health officials are stepping up calls to require doctors to log in to pill-tracking databases before prescribing painkillers and other high-risk drugs.
Mar 28, 2016
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New York's stringent paperless-prescribing law takes effect
New York is putting an end to most paper prescriptions for medicine as the nation's toughest electronic-prescribing law takes effect.
Mar 28, 2016
Looking for calorie labels on menus? Not until 2017
Wondering how many calories are in that hamburger? Chain restaurants still don't have to tell you, despite a 6-year-old law requiring calorie labels on menus.
Mar 28, 2016
Choosing to die at home does not hasten death for patients with terminal cancer
A large study from Japan found that cancer patients who died at home tended to live longer than those who died in hospitals. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings ...
Mar 28, 2016
