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Uncategorized Published - 4 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Doctor Found Guilty of Manslaughter After Overdose Deaths

Stan Xuhui Li, MD, of Hamilton, New Jersey, was a full-time anesthesiologist at a local hospital who had a sideline. On weekends, the 60-year-old Dr. Li saw patients in a pain-management clinic 80 miles away in the Queens borough of New York City. A jury in a New York state court concluded on July 18 […]

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Uncategorized Published - 4 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
How to coach your team to brilliance

Every leader is a coach to those who look to them for guidance. Your job as a leader is to be there when one of your employees are in a rut, but if you consistently offer them a gift-wrapped solution, those employees will forfeit their problem-solving skills in the process. Eventually, a new problem manifests […]

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Uncategorized Published - 4 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
CMS Confirms ICD-10 Deadline

October 1st, 2015, is the deadline for healthcare providers to implement the twice-delayed ICD-10 code set, federal officials confirm. HHS will release the final rule, Administrative Simplification: Change to the Compliance Date for the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD–10–CM and ICD-10-PCS) Medical Data Code Sets, in the Federal Register August 4. The one-year […]

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Uncategorized Published - 4 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Fentanyl pectin nasal spray as treatment for incident predictable breakthrough pain (BTP) in oral mucositis induced by chemoradiotherapy in head and neck cancer

Published in Oral Oncol. 2014 Jul 4. pii: S1368-8375(14)00172-9 Authors: Bossi P et al BACKGROUND: Painful mucositis is one of the most distressing toxicities of chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for head and neck cancer (HNC), with the characteristics of incidental predictable breakthrough pain (BTP) during swallowing. Fentanyl pectin nasal spray (FPNS) could be a good therapeutic option. […]

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Uncategorized Published - 4 August, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Update on Tamper-Proof Hydrocodone Products

Abuse-deterrent single-entity hydrocodone products are edging closer to market. Purdue Pharma LP has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FD) has granted Priority Review designation for its once-daily single-entity hydrocodone bitartrate tablet, an investigational pain medication formulated to make the product more difficult to misuse or abuse though chewing, snorting, and intravenous injection. […]

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