Authenticity of online prescriptions raised at doctor disciplinary ...
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TORONTO (CP) - A Toronto doctor accused of co-signing thousands of prescriptions for an online pharmacy without diagnosing patients had no way of verifying if the majority of drug orders he handled were authentic, his disciplinary tribunal heard Wednesday
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The recent Vioxx withdrawal and testimony from an FDA insider accusing the agency of failing to protect public health are fueling such heightened concern over drug safety that valuable medicines could be kept from patients, doctors said on Friday.
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CHICAGO -- Four doctors indicted on federal charges of swindling insurance companies out of more than $1.5 million are accused of using unqualified people to prepare hundreds of allergy shots, and of giving them to patients under unsanitary conditions.
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PATIENTS who use the internet to find out information about chronic disease rather than listening to their doctor could be putting their health at risk, research suggested today.
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Several local family-practice doctors spent much of Tuesday fielding telephone calls and questions about two widely used pain relievers that might - or might not - raise the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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WINNIPEG -- Internet pharmacists plan to call on Canada&#39;s health minister to change federal law to allow them to directly fill US prescriptions.
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Millions regularly buy prescription drugs in spite of risk they could be sold fakes, research shows
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Imagine you&#39;ve been diagnosed with high cholesterol and your doctor is preparing to write a prescription to help remedy the problem.
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Having easy access to a doctor's e-mail address appears to increase patient communication.
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LONDON: Doctors are warning people not to buy the anti-impotency drug, Viagra, over the internet, because they have found conclusive evidence that it is usually fake and could lead to a number of side effects, including a heart attack.
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Half of Viagra tablets sold on the Internet are fake, research suggests.
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VANCOUVER - Canada&#39;s health minister says doctors and pharmacists who give prescriptions to Americans without meeting them first are being unethical.
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TORONTO (CP) - A Toronto doctor accused of co-signing thousands of prescriptions without seeing patients changed his story several times under heated cross-examination at his disciplinary hearing Thursday.
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There's an open secret in medicine: Patients lie.
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New guidelines are issued to doctors on the use of some anti-depressants, amid growing concern about their safety.
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Coupling New England ingenuity with anti-counterfeiting technology, doctors and police in Rutland, Vt., have developed a plan to thwart drug users who forge prescriptions for powerful pain killers like OxyContin.
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A panel is examining claims that GlaxoSmithKline tried to suppress a doctorâs criticism of its drug Avandia.