
What We're Reading: OxyContin Manufacturers Plan Overseas Expansion
What we’re reading, December 20, 2016: Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin, plans to expand its sales of the drug in foreign markets; family members blame hospital for not warning them about low-quality nursing home; a project to place blast sensors on soldiers to learn more about concussions has been discontinued.
Upon a patient’s discharge from a hospital for hip surgery, family members say they were pushed to choose that hospital’s affiliated nursing home, where the patient later died from allegedly neglectful care.
The Pentagon has abandoned an initiative that placed blast sensors on soldiers to gauge pressure caused by an explosion.
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