When a death occurs, depending on the status of the human life at the time of death, either the attending physician or a coroner are required to list theCause of Death. There are very specific rules for determining the cause of death. Thecausesare listed in order of occurrence. Nowhere on...
Supreme Court rules that federal anti-drug laws trump state medical-marijuana measures in places like California. SUMMER 2009 33 CITY LIMITS INVESTIGATES AIMING LOW The pattern of narcotics arrests in New York City has shifted dramatically since 1980, with the number of misdemeanor ar- rests swam...
Telemedicine Prescribing. A physician-patient relationship cannot be established via telemedicine or store and forward technologies for the purpose of prescribing opiates, synthetic opiates, semisynthetic opiates, benzodiazepine or carisprodol, but may be used to prescribe opioid antagonists or partial...
For some drugs, these differences mean that doses need to differ in order for the drug to be both effective and safe. Dosing guidelines do not usually take sex/gender differences into account, but this issue can become clinically important when prescribing antipsychotic medication, especially ...