Health Alerts: Fentanyl patches can be deadly to small children, pets

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The agency, which has issued several public health advisories on the patches in the past, now is requiring label changes that make the name of the drug and its strength more prominent. Because used patches still have high concentrations of fentanyl …
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Federal judge weighs the fate of new state abortion law

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The state has “a rational basis” to want doctors qualify at hospitals and to use a federally-sanctioned drug protocols that already had been used by thousands of women, Oldham said. But abortion rights advocates said the state is using a “back door …
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Civil rights group sues Missouri for concealing suppliers of execution drugs

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Some states have turned to compounding pharmacies, which are licensed to formulate individual prescriptions from their ingredients or to convert solid medications to liquid form for intravenous use, as providers of drugs used in executions. The …
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