Cancer Treatment Parity Bill Wins Over Mandate-Averse Utah Lawmakers

Cancer treatment parity bill wins over mandate-averse Utah lawmakers

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IV chemo is billed as a medical treatment, which may require patients to pay a small co-payment, while oral chemo is treated like a prescription drug and subject to rules that can stick patients with up to 50 percent of the bill. "When patients come to …
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Meds: legal, profitable and deadly

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Consequently, many of us grow up believing that because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves prescription drugs and our education neglects its negative consequences, it must therefore be safer than illegal drugs. If the current … In this …
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Pill-mill docs often avoid prison, but street-level dealers get locked up

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The same day, agents arrested doctors Roman Mosai and Michael Moyer on charges they were illegally doling out addictive painkillers from their Central Florida offices. Schoendorf was sentenced to … Some legal observers also say the seemingly light …
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Simone Farrow's lawyers said she is addicted to the prescription anti-anxiety

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Simone Farrow this afternoon appeared in the Downing Centre District Court where her lawyers argued her addiction to the prescription anti-anxiety drug Xanax and potential "psychosis'' meant she was unfit. … Xanax is used to treat anxiety or depression.
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