pain management

Patients in hospices and nursing homes are suffering needlessly because they cannot get pain medicines, medical care professionals say. The issue: A combination of regulatory changes, manufacturing snags and physicians' reluctance to prescribe the drugs in light of a growing number of abuses of...

The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 included funding for The National All Schedules Prescription Reporting (NASPER) law, which passed in 2005 and was intended to coordinate prescription drug monitoring in all 50 states. There will likely be many welcome -- and perhaps some unwelcome --...