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Large Employers’ Focus on Prescription Drugs: Costs, Coupons and Communication

Health Populi

Employers’ most daunting challenge and uncertainty when it comes to dealing with pharmacy spending is the specialty drug impact — specifically, new million-dollar therapies getting approved by the FDA. Much now depends on the U.S.

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¿Ayudan las nuevas guías sobre opioides a los pacientes con dolor crónico?

Kaiser Health News

La FDA aprueba nuevos medicamentos y sus reformulaciones, pero la orientación que brinda sobre cómo comenzar o removerle la droga a los pacientes podría instar a los médicos a hacerlo con precaución, dijo Kertesz.

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¿Ayudan las nuevas guías sobre opioides a los pacientes con dolor crónico?

Kaiser Health News

La FDA aprueba nuevos medicamentos y sus reformulaciones, pero la orientación que brinda sobre cómo comenzar o removerle la droga a los pacientes podría instar a los médicos a hacerlo con precaución, dijo Kertesz.

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Tackling Racially Biased Health Care Algorithms

Bill of Health

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has also begun to consider the regulation of clinical algorithms. In 2021, the FDA released an action plan for the regulation of artificial intelligence and machine learning in medicine, which included supporting the development of methods to evaluate algorithms for bias.

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Five Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Persistent OUD Treatment Gaps 

Bill of Health

DEA has done little to reduce the appearance of agency capture by the Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) industry, while FDA was years behind the evidence in approving over-the-counter naloxone.

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New CDC Opioid Guidelines: Too Little, Too Late for Chronic Pain Patients?

Kaiser Health News

He said the new CDC guidance reflects “an extraordinary amount of input” from chronic pain patients and their doctors but doubts it will have much of an impact if the FDA and the Drug Enforcement Administration don’t change how they enforce federal laws.

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New CDC Opioid Guidelines: Too Little, Too Late for Chronic Pain Patients?

Kaiser Health News

He said the new CDC guidance reflects “an extraordinary amount of input” from chronic pain patients and their doctors but doubts it will have much of an impact if the FDA and the Drug Enforcement Administration don’t change how they enforce federal laws.

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