Critical Updates


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Selected News Items and Updates for the Practicing Clinician

Zachary Mulkey						MDa



Correspondence to Zachary Mulkey	MD. Email: zachary.mulkey @ttuhsc.edu


  


 + Author Affiliation - Author Affiliation
  
    aDepartment of Internal Medicine, TTUHSC, Lubbock, TX.

    






SWRCCC 2016;4(13):60.

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• Check out information on the newly approved oral pulmonary arterial hypertension drug, selexipag (Uptravi). Also, check out the potential costs (more than $150k yearly).

•Advair and Spiriva are numbers 5 and 6 on the list of drugs that CMS spends the most money on annually. How much does CMS spend? Here’s a hint: if you won the largest Powerball lottery in history you still couldn’t afford to cover the costs of either one.

 • Here’s a FREE app developed by the American College of Emergency Physicians designed to provide information and guidance on treating patients suffering from overdoses and poisonings. It’s also available for android devices.

 • The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak over in West Africa.

• Even though the current shingles vaccine is underutilized, pharma is working towards a newer vaccine that lasts much longer.