Call for Medicare Changes to Treat Drug Addicts

Published November 27, 2012

Call for Medicare changes to treat drug addicts

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By Simon Lauder, ABC November 26, 2012, 5:36 pm. Doctors … GPs say not enough doctors are willing to treat drug addicts and the Australian Medical Association agrees, but it warns that creating a new Medicare category would risk patient privacy …
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Should This Pharma Start Buying?

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Merck (NYSE: MRK ) has taken a massive hit in 2012: Singulair, its best-selling asthma and allergy treatment that made up more than 13% of the company's pharmaceutical sales in 2011, lost its patent protection in the United States this year, and sales …
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Kentucky study finds common drug increases deaths in atrial fibrillation patients

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27, 2012) — Digoxin, a drug widely used to treat heart disease, increases the possibility of death when used by patients with a common heart rhythm problem ? atrial fibrillation (AF), according to new study findings by University of Kentucky researchers.
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