Medication management
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, M.D., today issued a public health advisory urging Americans who misuse opioids, have an opioid use disorder or recent overdose, or know someone who does, to carry and know how to use naloxone – a drug that can be delivered via nasal mist or injection to…
April 28 is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, an opportunity for the public to safely dispose of unwanted or expired prescription pills at sites throughout the country.
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Hospira is voluntarily recalling three lots of the injectable opioid medication Hydromorphone HCl because the glass vials may be broken or cracked.
Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) today introduced the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act 2.0, legislation that would increase funding…
The AHA, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, and American Society of Clinical Oncology today urged the Drug Enforcement Administration to temporarily adjust the aggregate production quotas for certain…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration are investigating a multistate outbreak of salmonella linked to products reported to contain kratom.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Antibiotic Stewardship yesterday released the first in a four-part online training course on antibiotic stewardship.
Hospitals are experiencing shortages of sterile water used to reconstitute certain medications for injection.
The act updated federal requirements for drug compounding facilities after a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that was associated with a contaminated compounded steroid medication distributed to patients and providers in 23 states.