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• Prescribing Errors By GPs Reduced By Up To 50 Percent By In-House Pharmacists
• Chronic Pain Fuels Boom in Opioids
• 60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked

• FDA approves Corcept Korlym oral medicine
• Foreign Shipments to Ease Shortage of 2 Cancer Drugs
• Pneumonia Tx Guideline Shifts Scrips for Kids
• New Studies Show Which Anti-HIV Drug Combinations Work Better Than Others
• Antibiotics can minimize MRSA after airway surgery
• Clot Busters Look Safe in Pediatric Stroke

• Georgia voters strongly oppose mandatory mail-order plans
• Red Flags Ignored, DEA Says

1. Prescribing Errors By GPs Reduced By Up To 50 Percent By In-House Pharmacists
   Medication errors are common in primary care but the number of mistakes could be reduced significantly if GPs introduced an in-house pharmacist-led intervention scheme.
   Medical News Today
   
   
2. Chronic Pain Fuels Boom in Opioids
   Prescriptions for narcotic painkillers soared so much over the last decade that by 2010 enough were being dispensed to medicate every adult in the U.S. around-the-clock for a month.
   MedPage Today
   
   
3. 60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked
   Chain 124, as it was labeled by the nonprofit National Kidney Registry, required lockstep coordination over four months among 17 hospitals in 11 states.
   The New York Times
   
   

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1. FDA approves Corcept Korlym oral medicine
   The FDA has approved Corcept Therapeutics Korlym (mifepristone) 300mg tablets as a once-daily oral medicine to treat Cushing's syndrome patients.
   Pharmaceutical Business Review
   
   
2. Foreign Shipments to Ease Shortage of 2 Cancer Drugs
   Dire shortages of two critical cancer drugs -- shortfalls that have threatened the lives and care of thousands of cancer patients -- should be resolved within weeks, federal drug officials said.
   The New York Times
   
   
3. Pneumonia Tx Guideline Shifts Scrips for Kids
   A treatment guideline recommending ampicillin for children with uncomplicated community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) appeared to have influenced prescription patterns in at least one hospital, researchers said.
   MedPage Today
   
   
4. New Studies Show Which Anti-HIV Drug Combinations Work Better Than Others
   Using a mathematical formula that carefully measures the degree to which HIV infection of immune system cells is stalled by antiretroviral therapy, AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins have calculated precisely how well dozens of such anti-HIV drugs work, alone or in any of 857 likely combinations, in suppressing the virus.
   Infection Control Today
   
   
5. Antibiotics can minimize MRSA after airway surgery
   A screening and antibiotic treatment regimen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in children undergoing open airway surgery may be helpful in minimizing MRSA-associated postoperative infections in these patients, according to a report.
   Nurse
   
   
6. Clot Busters Look Safe in Pediatric Stroke
   Using thrombolytic therapy appears to be as safe in children with acute ischemic stroke as it is in adults, a retrospective study showed.
   MedPage Today
   
   

1. Georgia voters strongly oppose mandatory mail-order plans
   A whopping 82% of 600 Georgia voters surveyed recently said they oppose mandatory mail-order plans.
   Drug Topics
   
   
2. Red Flags Ignored, DEA Says
   The federal government alleges Cardinal Health Inc. and CVS Caremark Corp. were aware of high-volume orders of prescription painkiller oxycodone shipped to two pharmacies in Florida, in a closely watched case probing how much responsibility companies bear for a growing drug-abuse problem.
   The Wall Street Journal
   
   

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