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Texas pharmacist Brad Hart gets family transfer request. Kid already starts antibiotic course. Insurance demands prior auth for last 14 tablets. Drug costs pharmacy 18 dollars cash. AWP benchmark lists those tablets at 2500 dollars. PBM middlemen and rules create this fake price. Obamacare and Medicare push everything through third party payers. System delays care …
A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Professor José R Penadés and his team at Imperial College London had spent years working out and proving why some superbugs are immune to antibiotics. He gave …
Health experts from Sweden have warned of an “alarming antibiotic resistance” being developed in some patients in Ukraine. Researchers from Sweden’s Lund University have raised alarm bells over a second and potentially even more deadly battle being waged in Ukraine, that of the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections in the war-torn country. In a statement …
Pfizer will run out of several doses of penicillin, which treat syphilis, strep throat, and other infections, later this year as shortages ripple across the US supply chain. The company anticipates running out of the children’s dose of the syphilis drug Bicillin L-A by the end of June, according to a letter Pfizer posted Tuesday …