By: KTVZ.COM news sources Posted: May 10, 2019 08:32 PM PDT Updated: May 10, 2019 08:33 PM PDT SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Health Authority announced Friday that the Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC), will reopen discussions on the coverage guidelines related to neck and back pain implemented in 2016, beginning this winter. OHA and…
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KAISER HEALTH NEWS POSTED THIS ARTICLE YESTERDAY ON FAULTY MEDICAL DEVICES
FDA To End Program That Hid Millions Of Reports On Faulty Medical Devices By Christina Jewett, May 3, 2019 (EyeEm/Getty Images) The Food and Drug Administration announced it is shutting down its controversial “alternative summary reporting” program and ending its decades-long practice of allowing medical device makers to conceal millions of reports of harm and malfunctions…
MOST RECENT CDC RELEASE PERTAINING TO OPIOIDS.
CDC – OPIOID GUIDELINES SHOULD NOT BE USED TO TAPER PATIENTS April 24, 2019 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has taken its first concrete step to address the widespread misuse and misapplication of its opioid prescribing guideline. In a commentary published in The New England Journal of Medicine,…
