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February 1, 2019
Opioid Marketing Tied to Higher Prescribing and Overdose

...and opioid overdose. The study involved a population-based, county-level analysis that compared three sets of data. The first data set was industry marketing information pulled from the Centers for Medicare...

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August 22, 2023
Utilization of Opioid Use Disorder Medications

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a new study that examines the use of medication for opioid use disorder (OUD) among adults in 2021. Previous research has...

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April 16, 2023
WCRI Publishes Study on Formulary Impacts

The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) published Monitoring Trends after Adoption of Drug Formularies, a series of studies examining the impact of formularies on prescription drug utilization and costs in...

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March 9, 2018
Dr. Silvia Sacalis to Speak at National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit

...risks inherent to opioid use in workers' comp populations, exploring how data aggregation, combined with systematically applied clinical logic, can reduce drug therapy risks and expose gaps in care. Dr....

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June 7, 2020
WCRI Publishes Medical Price Index

The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) published the 12th edition of their annual index of actual prices paid for medical professional services from 2008-2019, based on a market basket of commonly used...

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January 15, 2022
Additional Vaccine Candidate Performs Well in Clinical Trials

...but more common amongst the vaccine group. While various other non-authorized vaccine candidates have been tested by researchers across the nation, this is one of the few additional candidates that...

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February 9, 2019
FDA Nudges Developers to Create Over-the-Counter Naloxone

...necessary label comprehension testing, establishing that these DFLs are consumer friendly and essentially clearing a primary hurdle for drug developers, allowing drug makers to insert product-specific information into their labels...

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May 10, 2021
FDA Revokes Emergency Use Authorization for Bamlanivimab for COVID-19

...of COVID-19 viral mutations that are resistant to bamlanivimab when administered alone. At this time, there are currently no testing technologies available that enable healthcare providers to test individual patients...

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September 21, 2021
White House Issues Vaccine Mandate

...to ensure all workers are either vaccinated or tested for COVID-19 once a week. Companies that do not comply would face thousands of dollars in fines per employee. Prior to...

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March 7, 2021
COVID-19-Related Stress Among Emergency Department Workers

...tests, 54% of respondents somewhat agreed, agreed, or strongly agreed that knowledge of their immune system decreased their anxiety. At the start of the pandemic, the Journal of the American Medical...

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