- Brookshire Grocery brings FlavoRx to customers (drugstorenews.com)
Brookshire Grocery announced this week that it would be equipping its pharmacies with Fillmaster Plus dispensing technology…feature FlavoRx medication flavoring….using FillPure’s water purification system for all water used in antibiotics and powdered suspension,...The machines make pharmaceutical reconstitution and flavoring easy while reducing dispensing errors…
- Sarepta and BioMarin race for an FDA tag that could be worth $350M-plus (fiercebiotech.com)
Rivals Sarepta Therapeutics and BioMarin Pharmaceutical are in line to become the next recipients of an FDA coupon for a fast review, each potentially picking up a sellable asset...The two companies separately received the FDA's rare pediatric disease designation for their in-development treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. And if they can win approval for the drugs next year--by no means guaranteed--each will receive a voucher that promises...a 6-month FDA review for any drug, truncating the standard 10-month process. Such vouchers can be sold to the highest bidder, and their market value has skyrocketed over the past year…
- Union posts email exchange with Merck CEO over plant dangers from job cuts (fiercepharmamanufacturing.com)
'Day of appreciation' becomes flashpoint over 'forced' double shifts..Merck & Co.'s plant in Pennsylvania has been impacted by the drugmaker's drastic job cuts in the last 5 years, losing hundreds of manufacturing jobs. Now, in an email exchange made public by one of the unions there, a labor official has lashed out at CEO Ken Frazier, saying workers are now forced to work 16-hours shifts,the fatigue…puts themselves and others in danger...
- The Female Libido Pill and Five Other Drugs That Can Be Defeated by Their Own Side Effects (bloomberg.com)
Every medication has risks as well as benefits, and people react to treatment differently. That’s why drug labels are pages long and filled with small print about the possible downsides. Sometimes those side effects actually exacerbate the problem the drug is intended to treat.
- Addyi
- Advair
- Antidepressants
- Osteoporosis Drugs
- Epogen
- MS Drugs
- Potential Medication Errors Involving Insulin (pharmacytimes.com)
Jessica Kerr, PharmD, CDE, and assistant department chair at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville discusses medication errors involving insulin. (video)
- Lilly, Sanofi, Novo among many pharma players to throw off big price gains in H1 (fiercepharma.com)
On the flip side, AstraZeneca, GSK and J&J stock prices contracted… The first half of the year has provided a good ride for Big Pharma and its investors with indices up in the U.S. and Europe. Even Japanese drugmakers avoided the side effects of China's stock market meltdown and saw values rise 23%. But, of course, averages come from the highs and the lows and some players have actually seen share price declines during this bull market.
- The FDA blundered badly on the Addyi approval (fiercebiotech.com)The FDA Is Basically Approving Everything. Here's The Data To Prove It (forbes.com)
..in approving Addyi, the FDA has gone overboard, exchanging greater efficiency in favor of purposeful permissiveness…it's lowering its standards on the risk/benefit equation by ignoring the realities of the Internet…agency can't control the viral campaign that's already well under way. It can't control prescribing habits or, more importantly, the demand for this drug. It can't prevent the side effects that we will now be seeing as the drug starts to become available to a much wider population than it's intended for…it's the kind of blunder that could well cost the entire industry if the inevitable backlash causes the FDA to grow overzealous about safety issues…This is a regulatory failure of the worst kind.
- Hydrogels: Study shows use in ulcerative colitis and Army invests in wound healing research (fiercedrugdelivery.com)
A hydrogel is a polymeric material capable of holding large amounts of water in its 3-D structural network. Because it acts as the gel equivalent of a sponge, hydrogels are ideal for delivering different kinds of drugs and performing necessary functions. This week, hydrogels have shown to be useful in treating inflammatory bowel problems...
- ETSU Offers New Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy Studies (pharmacytimes.com)
Students in East Tennessee State University’s Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy will have the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree while studying for the Doctor of Pharmacy degree...The..new Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy studies— will be of particular benefit to students who wish to pursue further graduate study, which usually requires a bachelor’s degree for admission…will allow interested students to receive an ETSU degree even if they did not start their undergraduate careers here at ETSU...
- Pharmacy Times Week in Review: August 21, 2015 (pharmacytimes.com)
Ashley Talamo, Publisher: Pharmacy Times...(PTNN) This weekly video program highlights the latest in pharmacy news, product news, and more. (video)