Sep 1, 2005
By: Al L’Agheny
Three Rivers Post & Standard (Blog)
We tend to think of those serving as prosecutors - whether for the D.A. or the state or federal - as people whose sole objective is justice.
While that is the case for many, a large number are just as interested in simultaneously parlaying a successful prosecutorial [...]
Oct 25, 2006
By: Leah Beth Ward
Yakima Herald Republic (WA)
Concerned about a “troubling pattern” of increased deaths associated with prescription narcotics, a group of state and private medical officials is drafting guidelines that would recommend a maximum daily dosage of powerful narcotic painkillers such as OxyContin.
“You’ve heard of the Opium Wars between England and China,” said [...]
Aug 20, 2005
By: Stephanie Saul
New York Times
Cox-2 drugs are down. But they may not be out.
By deciding yesterday that the Merck drug Vioxx contributed to the death of a Texas man, a jury dealt another punch to the battered class of arthritis painkillers known as cox-2’s. Merck withdrew Vioxx from the market last fall over [...]
Aug 17, 2006 By: Eric Thomas ABC 7 (KGO) (CA) PART ONE Nearly one-in-five Americans suffer from chronic pain, a statistic that’s pushed the pain management business in the US to more than $25-billion-a-year. But what happens when [...]
October 11, 2006
By: Jeff Arnold
Times Record (AK)
A misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct filed against an Oklahoma doctor in Little Rock District Court was dismissed Tuesday.
Dr. Robert Kale, a former Fort Smith doctor who now practices in Roland, was arrested July 6 by an Arkansas State Police trooper outside of an Arkansas Medical Board meeting, where [...]
Oct 3, 2006
By: ROD WALTON World Staff Writer
TULSA WORLD NEWS (OK)
ROLAND — A Mississippi physician known nationally for treating poor patients and battling insurance companies is now at odds with federal regulators over writing prescriptions out of his part-time practice in eastern Oklahoma.
Dr. Ronald Myers challenged the federal Drug Enforcement
Administration after pharmacies did not fill [...]
