- A5 Pharmacy Ltd. Deploys Revionics Price Optimization (marketwatch.com)
Russia’s largest retail pharmacy chains improves profits by tapping into their big data with price optimization… -- Revionics, Inc.,a provider of optimization solutions, and distribution partner SmartService Ltd, announced…that they have entered into a multi-year agreement…with A5 Pharmacy Ltd., one of Russia’s largest pharmacy retail chains, which operates more than 700 retail locations throughout Russia.
- Pharma plants strike in Pakistan protest QC rule changes (in-pharmatechnologist.com)
More than 100 plants in…Islamabad, and in…the Punjab province are downing tools in response to amendments by the regional government to the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan Act,… proposed changes would do away with the Out of Specification production category, which is used by international regulators for batches that do not meet pharmacopeial specifications. Instead.. new rules would mark all failed products with the…term "Spurious", a classification that..encompasses unregistered and counterfeit medicines, and products containing no active pharmaceutical ingredient…
- Jailed Las Vegas doctor’s patients irked over cost to get medical records (reviewjournal.com)
Patients of a jailed Las Vegas doctor accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women in his care say they are being told they must pay excessive amounts of money to retrieve their own medical records….they have been told they must pay $20 for the paperwork kept in Dr. Binh Chung's office… may not be in line with Nevada law.
- 5 Useful Career Skills Pharmacists Develop (pharmacytimes.com)
"If you weren’t a pharmacist, what would you be doing?" I get tons of diverse responses from faces that light up when they talk about it…Pharmacists are in a great position to reinvent themselves because they have developed the following skills over time that are useful in many career fields:
- Management skills
- Finance skills
- Mentoring skills
- Multitasking and efficiency skills
- Communication skills
- Concordia, Par Pharmaceutical settle anti-competition charges -U.S. FTC (reuters.com)
Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc and Par Pharmaceutical Inc have settled charges they unlawfully agreed not to compete in the sale of a generic version of Kapvay (clonidine), a drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,…Federal Trade Commission…alleged Concordia,…had agreed not to sell…drug in exchange for a share of Par's revenues…. settlement bars them from enforcing anticompetitive provisions of their agreement, including the profit-sharing provision..
- Tianjin explosions hit GSK pharma production site (in-pharmatechnologist.com)
Explosions last week at a warehouse in Tianjin, China hit a GSK drug manufacturing plant, It did not reveal which drug products are affected. GSK has two businesses in ...area: Sino-American Tianjin Smith Kline & French Laboratories Ltd., and GSK (Tianjin) Co. Ltd., both pharmaceutical joint ventures with local companies. GSK’s two Tianjin businesses will jointly donate 1m RMB ($156,000) cash to the Red Cross to help the emergency response. The firm said it is "on standby" to provide essential medicines.
- FDA approves first treatment for sexual desire disorder (fda.gov)Approved Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) (accessdata.fda.gov)
Addyi is being approved with a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy, which includes elements to assure safe use…because of the increased risk of severe hypotension and syncope due to the interaction between Addyi and alcohol…REMS requires that prescribers be certified… Additionally, pharmacies must be certified…Certified pharmacies must only dispense Addyi to patients with a prescription from a certified prescriber...
- Amgen pays $71 mln to settle Enbrel, Aranesp marketing case (reuters.com)
Amgen Inc has reached a $71 million settlement ...to resolve claims that the biotechnology company promoted its popular Enbrel and Aranesp drugs for uses not approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration… Amgen violated state consumer protection laws by marketing both drugs for off-label uses, through its promotion of Enbrel to treat mild plaque psoriasis and Aranesp to treat anemia caused by cancer.
- AbbVie buys special review voucher for $350 million (reuters.com)
AbbVie Inc has bought a (FDA) priority review voucher from United Therapeutics Corp for $350 million that will allow it to accelerate the review process for one of its drugs…pediatric disease priority review voucher…eligible to have one of its drugs reviewed in six months, compared to the standard 10 months...AbbVie did not disclose its plans for the voucher...
- Children’s Book Characterizes Pharmacist’s Role (pharmacytimes.com)
To cure Maddie’s strep throat in time for her birthday party, all the little girl needs is some medicine and encouragement from her pharmacist in the children’s book Maddie Visits the Pharmacist… Author Donna Keissami, PharmD …life-long dream to write a children’s story. She was …inspired to write the story so that she could read it to her 2-year-old son..