Policy Impact: Prescription Painkiller Overdoses
Although many types of prescription drugs are abused, there is currently a growing, deadly epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse. Nearly three out of four prescription drug overdoses are caused by prescription painkillers\u2014also called opioid pain
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The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization [PDF]
On January 1, 2006, the federal government began providing insurance coverage for Medicare recipients' prescription drug expenditures through a new program known as Medicare Part D.
Mark Duggan, Fiona Scott Morton
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Under normal conditions, MACF1 interacts with Rab14 and facilitates KIF16B‐mediated FGFR vesicle trafficking along microtubules to the plasma membrane, thereby supporting BMSC differentiation. In contrast, chronic GC exposure suppresses MACF1 expression, disrupting this transport and causing intracellular FGFR retention, which blunts osteogenic ...
Peihong Su +14 more
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Prescription Drugs in Pregnancy and Congenital Malformations: A Population-Based Safety Screening Study. [PDF]
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug SafBroe A +6 more
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"Napsterizing" Pharmaceuticals: Access, Innovation, and Consumer Welfare [PDF]
We analyze the effects on consumers of an extreme policy experiment -- Napsterizing' pharmaceuticals -- whereby all patent rights on branded prescription drugs are eliminated for both existing and future prescription drugs without compensation to the ...
James W. Hughes +2 more
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Hydraulic Pressure‐Programmed Molecular Transport in Tough Hydrogels
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Hydraulic pressure is introduced as a programmable parameter for regulating molecular transport in tough hydrogel membranes. Reversing the pressure direction accelerates or slows transport, tuning characteristic transport times over a 65‐fold range while achieving molecular separation and controlled delivery.
Yijie Cheng +7 more
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The Benefits and Costs of Newer Drugs: Evidence from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey [PDF]
The nation's spending for prescription drugs has grown dramatically in recent years. Previous studies have shown that the replacement of older drugs by newer, more expensive, drugs is the single most important reason for this increase, but they did not ...
Frank R. Lichtenberg
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Electronic Chip‐Mimetic Medical Implants for Controllable Sonothermal Treatments
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Inspired by the thermal effect of working electronic chips, which consist of various heterostructures, an sonothermal‐responsive platform has been developed through constructing metal‐semiconductor interface on implants. Biofilm infection and deep vein thrombosis can be successfully treated by controllable ultrasound treatments.
Zhengdong Zhang +10 more
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The application of MyDispense as virtual simulation in pharmacy education in a non-prescription drugs and self-care course: a prospective mixed-method study. [PDF]
BMC Med EducKhayyat SM +7 more
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Prescription drugs worth €75k seized from house in Summerhill.
, 2013 A 25-year-old man was arrested after gardaí found €75,000 worth of prescription drugs during a planned search of a house in Dublin this morning. A property in Summerhill was raided at about 8.30am as part of a planned operation targeting the sale and ...
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