Drug Database Gets Little Use From Pharmacists
State health officials want to know if low use of a prescription drug database is leading to more deaths in North Carolina.
View ArticleSystem To Track Prescription Drugs Underused
Prescription drug overdose kills an average of three people per day in North Carolina. Researchers at UNC Chapel Hill say a statewide system designed to reduce those numbers – North Carolina Controlled...
View ArticleWilkes Co. Program To Curb Drug Overdose Deaths Goes Statewide
In 2009, Wilkes County in the northwestern part of the state had the 4th highest rate of prescription drug overdose deaths in the country. Two years later, those numbers dropped by 68 percent. That's...
View ArticleGuidelines For Rationing Drugs Recommended
Duke University medical officials have come up with guidelines for allocating scarce drugs. Supplies of some cancer medications and other drugs can sometimes run low at hospitals. Doctor Phillip Rosoff...
View Article$1,000 Pill For Hepatitis C Spurs Debate Over Drug Prices
Federal regulators this month opened a new era in the treatment of a deadly liver virus that infects three to five times more people than HIV. Now the question is: Who will get access to the new drug...
View ArticleHospitals Weather Flu Season Despite An IV Drug Shortage
Medical facilities are facing a national shortage of intravenous drugs, especially saline IV drips. Saline is used to treat dehydrated patients.Manufacturers are stepping up production to meet need,...
View ArticleStudy: Pharmacists Could Play An Integral Role In Patient Care
Health care organizations in North Carolina are expanding an initiative to see how doctors and pharmacists cooperate to streamline patient care.Community Care of North Carolina has already set up a...
View ArticleMobile Medication Programs Help Mental Health Patients Keep Prescriptions...
Mental health patients in rural Nash and Vance Counties are getting help from local nurses and technicians to keep their medications straight at home.
View ArticleUNC-CH Study Finds Specialty Drug Spending Triples Since 2003
Spending on high-price specialty drugs has risen dramatically in the past thirteen years, according to new research from UNC-Chapel Hill.
View ArticleGuidelines For Rationing Drugs Recommended
Duke University medical officials have come up with guidelines for allocating scarce drugs. Supplies of some cancer medications and other drugs can sometimes run low at hospitals. Doctor Phillip Rosoff...
View ArticleDrug Database Gets Little Use From Pharmacists
State health officials want to know if low use of a prescription drug database is leading to more deaths in North Carolina. A majority of state pharmacists and doctors are not checking a drug registry...
View ArticleSystem To Track Prescription Drugs Underused
Prescription drug overdose kills an average of three people per day in North Carolina. Researchers at UNC Chapel Hill say a statewide system designed to reduce those numbers – North Carolina Controlled...
View ArticleWilkes Co. Program To Curb Drug Overdose Deaths Goes Statewide
In 2009, Wilkes County in the northwestern part of the state had the 4 th highest rate of prescription drug overdose deaths in the country. Two years later, those numbers dropped by 68 percent. That's...
View ArticleOperation Medicine Drop Nets Millions Of Unused Pills
North Carolina residents have turned in millions of unused pills this year as part of a effort to fight substance abuse. State Attorney General Roy Cooper says more than 9,500,000 prescription and...
View Article$1,000 Pill For Hepatitis C Spurs Debate Over Drug Prices
Federal regulators this month opened a new era in the treatment of a deadly liver virus that infects three to five times more people than HIV. Now the question is: Who will get access to the new drug...
View ArticleHospitals Weather Flu Season Despite An IV Drug Shortage
Medical facilities are facing a national shortage of intravenous drugs, especially saline IV drips. Saline is used to treat dehydrated patients. Manufacturers are stepping up production to meet need,...
View ArticleStudy: Pharmacists Could Play An Integral Role In Patient Care
Health care organizations in North Carolina are expanding an initiative to see how doctors and pharmacists cooperate to streamline patient care. Community Care of North Carolina has already set up a...
View ArticleMobile Medication Programs Help Mental Health Patients Keep Prescriptions...
Some mental health patients in rural Nash and Vance Counties are getting help from local nurses and technicians to keep their medications straight at home. The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust has...
View ArticleUNC-CH Study Finds Specialty Drug Spending Triples Since 2003
Spending on high-price specialty drugs has risen dramatically in the past thirteen years, according to new research from UNC-Chapel Hill.
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