New FDA rules tighten refills for hydrocodone painkillers
Hydrocodone products such as Vicodin Lortab and Norco move to a stricter drug class making 30 day prescriptions the norm and restricting refills. Doctors must handwrite each script and only physicians can issue them, raising access barriers for cancer patients the disabled and rural residents while aiming to curb abuse and overdose deaths.
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Chemoprevention of breast cancer faces hurdles despite feasibility
Oncologist Larry Wickerham argues that women at high risk could be offered preventive drugs already used for treatment. Experts cite fear of side effects, limited physician training, time constraints, and lack of industry promotion as factors keeping uptake around one percent among eligible women, despite guidelines advocating anti estrogen agents that cut incidence by half or more.
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