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Articles & Publications

• CMS Publishes Proposed Guidance for Seasonal, H1N1 Flu Prevention (McKnights – 6/23/10)
  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued proposed guidance that would update and replace previous inflection control guidance for the seasonal and H1N1 flu.
• Court Rejects the Right to Use Drugs Being Tested (New York Times – Aug. 2007)
  Do desperate patients have the right to try unproven therapies?   
• Guidance on Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics: Older Adults and People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Community Settings (SAMHSA)
  This Guidance reviews non-pharmacologic behavioral approaches and strategies to avoid and reduce prescribing of antipsychotics whenever possible for older adults with dementia and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Letting Go – What Should Medicine Do When it Can't Save Your Life? (New Yorker – 8/2/10)
  Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left.

Organizations & Services

• Needy Meds
  Find help with the cost of medicine.
• RX Assist.org
  Provides a comprehensive directory of patient assistance programs that are run by pharmaceutical companies to provide free medications to people who cannot afford their prescriptions.