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A DEA final rule allows prescribers to order narcotics for up to 100 patients at one time for detoxification purposes.

FDA issues warning to healthcare professionals about Roche and Novartis' transplant drugs.

The American Academy of Dermatology has issued new guidelines on the management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

CMS announed the names of the 325 winning suppliers that have signed contracts with Medicare to provide DMEPOS.

FDA will review claims data from Medicare and other sources to identify unsafe drugs and devices.

NCCAM has launched Time to Talk educational campaign about complementary and alternative care medicine.

The largest Indian drugmaker is hooking up with a Japanese pharmaceutical firm.

Connectyx Technologies Holdings Group has launched MedFlash personal health records at Fred Meyer stores.

YourRxCard.com launches ask the pharmacist program for its members.

AMCP has sent a letter to Senate leaders strongly objecting to Section 176 of S. 3101.

ALFA pleads with the Senate Special Committee on Aging to drop co-payments for poor assisted living residents.

ADHD patch recalled due to liner failure.

Eight community pharmacies have filed suit to stop Medi-Cal reimbursement cutbacks from taking effect on July 1.

NACDS, NCPA call Baucus bill "must-enact" legislation

ISMP is expanding its outreach by introducing a web site for consumers this summer.

Leiner Health Products has issued an allergy alert on undeclared allergens in Liquimax Multivitamin and has recalled the product.

Oversized morphine sulfate tablet leads to recall.

To better ward off blows by the FDA to compounding pharmacists, IACP has established a satellite office at NCPA's headquarters.

CMS has released the conditions of participation that hospices must fulfil in order to operate under Medicaire and Medicaid.

FDA gives once-yearly zoledronic acid injection expanded use.

Increased risk of cancer mortality found with Ethicon's diabetic foot ulcer cream.

Gut hormones play a key and often overlooked role in weight loss and weight regulation. Changes in weight are determined largely by the balance between energy intake and energy expenditure, but gut hormones can affect both sides of the energy equation.

The range of endothelial interventions for peripheral artery disease (PAD) is proliferating. Today's choices include traditional balloon angioplasty, stents, drug eluting stents and fabric-covered stents. Newer technologies allow clinicians to cut out occlusions, freeze them, scrape them, laser them and kill them.

Hyperglycemia is involved in the dysregulation of endothelial nitric oxide (NO) synthase, leading to endothelial dysfunction and an increased risk of vasculopathy, said Markku Laakso, MD.

Pramlintide injection added to basal insulin at mealtime is similar to titrated rapid-acting insulin in achieving glycemic control but with a lower risk of hypoglycemia and no weight gain in patients with type 2 diabetes, said Matthew Riddle, MD, head, section of diabetes, division of endocrinology/diabetes/clinical nutrition, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland.

Coronary artery calcium and abdominal aortic calcium both predicted future cardiovascular events in a Veterans Administration population with type 2 diabetes. The relationship between calcium scores and cardiovascular events was independent of standard cardiovascular risk factors, said Peter Reaven, MD.

Surrogate endpoints in clinical trials (ie, hemoglobin [Hb] A1c) on which drug approvals may be based only explain narrow aspects of complex conditions. For this reason, even when using a drug as labeled, there is always a level of uncertainty over outcomes with the drug, said Saul Malozowski, MD, PhD, MPH.