- Large-scale COPD patient network in the works (medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com)
Program to enroll 125,000 COPD patients to gather data and integrate social online platform to address third leading cause of death in U.S. The COPD Foundation’s COPD360 program is being assembled to accelerate research and foster innovation...
- Drug overdose deaths rise across the U.S. (reviewjournal.com)
Deaths by drug overdose have been on the rise in the United States, with a majority of states recording increases from 2009 to 2013, according to a study …..Nevada ranked fourth highest with a rate of 21.6 per 100,000 people.
- Prevent Rx drug abuse: Lock up those meds (drugtopics.modernmedicine.com)
As a third-year pharmacy student doing a public health rotation with Pharmacy Planning Services, Inc. and the Marin County Pharmacists Association, I was assigned a trial project: to determine whether making lockboxes for prescription medications available in pharmacies would deter use of drugs by those for whom they were not intended.
- Researchers gain support and insights at the 2nd Annual Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research Meeting (unr.edu)
Researchers….. gathered at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas ….. to share successes and opportunities in clinical and translational research at the Second Annual Meeting of the Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research-Infrastructure Network. UNLV and the University of Nevada School of Medicine are co-administrators of a….$20 million grant supported by the National Institutes of Health…..
- Opioid-Benzo Combo Raises Deadly Drug Overdose Risk (pharmacytimes.com)
A new study published in the British Medical Journal found 27% of US veterans who received opioids between 2004 and 2009 were taking benzodiazepines at the same time. Roughly half of the drug overdose deaths among that population occurred when the drugs were prescribed concurrently, and veterans’ risk of fatal drug overdose grew as their daily benzodiazepines doses increased.
- Turns out drugmakers don’t tell the whole truth about FDA rejections (fiercebiotech.com)
When the FDA turns away a potential new treatment, it sends the drug's maker what's called a complete response letter, detailing all the deficiencies that led to the rejection. Those forms aren't public, but most companies issue press releases describing their contents. However, as a new study reveals, there's often a wide gap between the FDA's actual issues and the sponsors' spin.
- Nevada had the 19th Highest Rate of Injury Deaths in U.S.; (healthyamericans.org)
Nationally, drug overdose deaths have more than doubled in the past 14 years – resulting in 44,000 deaths per year, and half of those deaths (22,000) are related to prescription drugs. Nevada ranked fourth highest for drug overdose deaths – at a rate of 21.6 per 100,000 people.
- Most Americans Say Drug Costs Are ‘Unreasonable,’ Although They Can Still Afford To Buy Them (khn.org)
Nearly three in four Americans say the costs of prescription drugs are "unreasonable" — and most blame drugmakers for those prices, according to a poll released Tuesday. The survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 74 percent of those taking prescription drugs find the costs unreasonable, as do 72 percent of those not taking such drugs.
- Do U.S. biomedical researchers really waste about $28B a year? (fiercebiotechresearch.com)
Researchers have known for years just how sketchy preclinical biomedical research can be. Reports on research projects that can capture headlines around the world are also not infrequently impossible to reproduce. And now a new study has attempted to put a dollar figure on the amount of research produced in the U.S. each year that can't be reproduced.