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: The Illinois Personal Injury Weblog of Schaeffer & Lamere P.C.Early-Warning Drug Network
From the Los Angeles Times: "FDA, Medicare to form early-warning drug network," by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar--
Two major government health agencies that have traditionally operated as self-contained bureaucratic fiefdoms announced a joint venture Thursday that promises to improve prescription drug safety for all Americans, while potentially reducing wasteful spending on medications.
The Food and Drug Administration and Medicare agreed on rules for using information from Medicare's giant claims databases to create a computerized early-warning network for problems with medications and medical devices that come to light after they go on the market.
--Posted by Godfrey Illinois personal injury lawyers and attorneys and the Southern Illinois accident attorneys of Schaeffer & Lamere, P.C., handling car accident, truck accidents, personal injury, pharmaceutical cases, products liability injuries, workers' compensation, medical malpractice, truck accidents, and all other types of injury cases.
Full post as published by The Illinois Personal Injury Weblog of Schaeffer & Lamere P.C. on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).
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