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Procedures, operations, and prescription opioid use aimed at curbing chronic pain have increased dramatically over the last decade, driving up health-care costs, while failing to stem the increase in the prevalence of pain or the number of disability claims.
The ability to determine the principal genes that account for our variable response to prescription drugs has been advanced by a technique known as a genome-wide association study (GWAS).
To fill a prescription for a drug with a known pharmacogenomic profile, a customer can get rapid genotyping to determine appropriate dose, drug, or predilection for serious side-effects.
Their motives include more efficient use of prescription drugs, along with getting an edge on other PBM competitors.
With annual expenditures for prescription drugs in the US totaling $300 billion, there is certainly room to cut costs.
“Leveling the battlefield” by providing weapons to moderates is, at best, a prescription for prolonged violence, with even more civilian casualties and refugees.
It is no surprise that the results of so simplistic a policy prescription were often illiberal democracy and crony capitalism.
Wolf’s prescription for countering the crisis is simple, smart, and unassailable.
Tramadol is a prescription opioid available in the United Kingdom for pain relief.
The UK media have been full of sympathetic stories about Plummer’s plight, despite the fact that she was carrying a quantity in excess of that for which a UK doctor can write a prescription.
Likewise, now that Warren Buffett is considered to be Obama’s most trusted economic adviser, it is worth recalling that back in 2003 he produced the astonishing prescription that the best way to reduce the US trade deficit was to allow no more imports than it could finance from its export earnings.
While Buffett’s prescription of higher taxes for America’s wealthy is entirely desirable, will Obama realize that a genius in one area may be a dunce in another?
The IMF's economic framework still does not provide for countercyclical fiscal policies, because the IMF remains ambivalent about the standard Keynesian prescription of stimulating an economy in a downturn.
So the policy prescription for solving the crisis seems simple: austerity.
There is, however, one policy prescription that would benefit many of the countries with the highest levels of inequality.
That is a profoundly dangerous prescription.
For example, pharmaceutical companies have insisted that the TPP force all countries to grant 12-year patents on prescription drugs – increasing their profits while delaying competition from cheaper generic versions.
As everywhere else where socialism was tried, this was a prescription for state financial crisis and slow growth.
In fact, even if biopharmed plants were to contaminate food crops, the likelihood that consumers would end up with harmful amounts of prescription drugs in their corn flakes, pasta, or tofu is very small.
This is not a prescription for a soggy policy that denies the demands of the real world.
Nonetheless, according to the Financial Times which reported the IMF chief’s views, “the IMF would not recommend them as a standard prescription either – as they carried costs and were usually ineffective.”
Others focused on the “compassionate”: they expected Bush’s fiscal policy largely to eschew tax cuts and to adopt largely Democratic spending priorities, including expanded federal aid to education and a prescription drug benefit, thereby showing that Republicans could run a more cost-effective version of the social-welfare state.
In Switzerland, as well as in the US states of Oregon, Washington, and Montana, the law now permits physicians, on request, to supply a terminally ill patient with a prescription for a drug that will bring about a peaceful death.
For many around the world who suffer under oppressive regimes, such a credo would sound like a prescription for sainthood – or for impotence.
This was certainly true in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, when right-wing ideology dominated, producing a one-size-fits-all prescription entailing privatization, liberalization, and macroeconomic stability (meaning price stability), with little attention to employment, equity, or the environment.
A Looming Anti-Depressants CrisisThe widespread prescription of drugs for troubled minds has always ended badly, right back to the days of opiates and cocaine, up through bromides, barbiturates, and tranquilizers: all proved to be highly addictive drugs, but only after years of denial did doctors admit that this was so.
In the process, she has provided a human face for an institution often associated with the prescription of bitter medicine.
When a government proves unresponsive or incompetent, a common prescription is to limit its influence, so that the power of the market can be unleashed.
Nevertheless, it is a prescription for endless terrorism and war: both pro- and anti-Iranian revolutionary Islamists believe that, because God is on their side and their enemies are cowardly, they will win, and they are quite prepared to spend the next half-century trying to prove it.
On pollution, the obvious prescription is for Foshan to move to cleaner industries.
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