

A Plan to Keep Dying Patients’ Drugs From Fueling AddictionOctober 9, 2018 |
The opioids bill that passed Congress includes a measure to let hospice workers destroy unneeded medications
Quick ReadAn organ donor had cancer cells in her body that were accidentally transmitted to four transplant recipients. Three died from the disease
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Remembering the ‘Mother of All Pandemics,’ 100 Years LaterSeptember 18, 2018 |
The Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 offers important lessons in balancing truth and panic during public health crises
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Michigan Health Director To Stand Trial In Flint DeathsAugust 21, 2018 |
“The victims’ deaths, that is Robert Skidmore and John Snyder, their deaths were caused by this neglect of the defendant,” Goggins read from his opinion, “in [Nick Lyon’s] failure to act appropriately with regarding to disseminating notices to the public.”
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Clinicans Were Told Their Patient Had Died of an OverdoseAugust 10, 2018 |
Then opioid prescribing dropped. In a small, randomized trial, researchers showed that this intervention — aimed at making the abstract issue of safe prescribing individually tangible — led to a slight reduction in the amount of opioids these clinicians prescribed
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