Healthcare law and regulation for Texas providers: state legislation, compliance, prescribing rules and policy changes.
In response to the opioid epidemic, many states, including Texas, created prescription drug monitoring programs to monitor high-risk patients and provider behaviors. The Texas Prescription Drug Monitoring Program ...
A new report from the Office of the Surgeon General, “Facing Addiction in America,” suggests that an overhaul of U.S. drug policy is long overdue, according to a new issue brief from a drug policy expert at Rice ...
On June 16, 2015, Governor Abbott signed into law H.B. 21, known as the “Right to Try Act” and the law became immediately effective, thereby allowing patients with terminal illnesses the right to use potentially ...
Alzheimer's Association advocates moved closer to realizing their request for substantially-increased Alzheimer's research funding. The House Appropriations Committee approved the Labor, Health and Human Services, ...
The approval of a bill to prevent the sale of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) to minors in Texas is an important step forward in safeguarding the health of our children, according to Ernest T. Hawk, M.D., M.P.H., ...
