Top stories in health and medicine this morning, February 20, 2012
This series is brought to you by MedPage Today.1. Follow the Money: Pain, Policy, and Profit. The Federation of State Medical Boards, often develops guidelines that serve as the basis for model policies with the stated goal of improving medical practice — but after its guideline for the use of opioids to treat chronic pain patients was adopted as a model policy, it asked Purdue Pharmaceuticals for $100,000 to help pay for printing and distribution that policy to 700,000 practicing doctors.2. Treating Chronic Pain Fueled the Boom in Opioids. Prescriptions...
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