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FDA Orders New Warning for Epidural Steroids |
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Thursday, April 24, 2014 06:36 AM |
Injectable corticosteroids must now carry a new label warning about the risks of severe adverse effects from epidural injections including death, stroke, and permanent blindness and paralysis, the FDA said.
The agency decided that such a warning is needed after reviewing numerous reports in the medical literature and its own adverse event database.
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Welcome to Federal Regulation News |
Wednesday, April 09, 2014 12:17 PM |
Welcome to our new news and information structure. Here we will post news that pertains to the chiropractic profession or our patients, as reported by the federal government, Medicare/CMS, CDC, and other federal regulatory agencies.
It will take us a few days to populate this particular news section with news. In the mean time be sure to check our Communications Archives for news from March 2014, and before. |
MDs in Congress: Focus on Regulations, Not Legislation |
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Monday, November 29, 1999 09:00 AM |
Physicians' strategy for lobbying Congress this year should focus on influencing the wording of regulations, not on getting laws enacted, a member of Congress said at the American Medical Association's (AMA) annual advocacy meeting.
“If I were you, one thing I'd be doing is not worrying about big legislation passing Congress," said Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) Instead, “I’d be getting to know Andy [Slavitt, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)] very, very well," especially since Slavitt's agency will be busy implementing the new physician payment system that will replace the much-maligned sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. Because it's a presidential election year, "It's not going to be a year where we [in Congress] try to throw long passes and score big touchdowns; it's going to be a year where we try to get the things done that need done and don't interfere with the presidential election process," he said.
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