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#medications — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Will #AI fix prior #authorization —or make it worse?

    If you’re like me, you or a loved one has struggled through the process of gaining pre-approval for the #medical care that your #physician has recommended. Personal stories abound regarding the tribulations of #patients as they go through hoops to get their #health #insurer to pay for certain #prescription #medications , medical procedures, and more.

    arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/wil

  2. Niloofar* emptied her #emergency backpack onto the floor: a #passport, prescribed #medications, a toothbrush, a change of #clothes, and documents proving #ownership of her home.

  3. …Experts in #pharmaceutical #regulation said the #FDA doesn't have the authority to unilaterally impose a #ban on #medications that have already received #US approval & have long been available without new evidence of a safety problem or finding that the original application seeking ⁠approval contained ​false statements. The FDA can ask a drugmaker to withdraw a #medicine, but the company can refuse.

    #RFKJr #Trump #MentalHealth #PsychiatricCare #health #PublicHealth #science

  4. #Antibiotics have no effect on #viruses, and that includes the #coronavirus. Yet in the first year of the #pandemic, primary care physicians prescribed #antibacterial #medications twice as frequently as before, report researchers at the University of Basel. A risky practice, warns the research team.
    #Microbiology #Medical #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2023/12/mcb12182301