- Voices of Pharmacy: Job Satisfaction Among Pharmacists (pharmacytimes.com)
…work gives satisfaction. What gives pharmacists satisfaction in the workforce? That depends on a number of factors.
- Taiwan pharma inspector arrested for taking drugmaker bribes (fiercepharmamanufacturing.com)
FDA official accused of tipping companies off to 'unannounced inspections'… plant inspector has been charged with taking more than $150,000 in bribes to pass on info on upcoming pharmaceutical inspections to Chinese drugmakers…Taiwan's Agency Against Corruption has also swept up the inspector's wife and executives and owners of 8 drug companies believed to have made payoffs..
- Heroin Fuels Black Market Medicine In Northern Nevada (kolotv.com)
Traditional medicines like Suboxone and Methadone is (are) being sold on the streets to increase profits for addicts or drug dealers…With heroin's popularity back on the rise, addicts and dealers are using medicines to treat heroin addiction, like Suboxone and Methadone, to sell or trade on the black market..
- FDA issues warning against Kim Kardashian’s drug promotions (cbsnews.com)Promotional Material (fda.gov)WARNING LETTER (fda.gov)
Food and Drug Administration says Kardashian's social media posts violate federal drug-promotion rules…they don't mention side effects of Diclegis, which include sleepiness that can make it dangerous to drive or perform other activities that require mental alertness…
- Opposition grows in Malaysia and New Zealand on TPP drug provisions (fiercepharmaasia.com)
New Zealand's opposition Labour Party and the Malaysian Medical Association …urged national negotiators to go slow on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, citing worries over the potential effect on drug costs… due to the veil of secrecy surrounding the negotiations, we remain uneasy about the potential outcome...
- EHRs can increase docs’ medical malpractice liability (fierceemr.com)
Electronic health records can increase a provider's malpractice exposure,… EHRs initially were envisioned to reduce medical errors, but surmises that hasn't yet occurred…EHRs are causing or contributing to malpractice problems… found to create new, unanticipated legal problems…are changing the nature of medical malpractice lawsuits.
- Computer glitches and design flaws, such as a restrictive drop down menu, which can cause medical errors
- The "transparency" of EHRs themselves, which makes it harder to hide mistakes or sloppy work habits
- The increased documentation requirements and resulting desire to use templates and other shortcuts, which can lead to discrepancies in the EHR
- The inability of EHRs to catch some errors, such as dosage mistakes
- Google plans to grow healthcare efforts under Alphabet (healthcareitnews.com)
Google's life sciences team,…partnered with DexCom to develop small low-cost sensors to improve diabetes management….to build continuous glucose monitoring devices, incorporating Google's miniaturized electronics platform…enable them to use data…to improve outcomes and reduce the costs associated with diabetes care,..
- Could Corporate Contracts with Health-Systems Help Curb Care Costs? (pharmacytimes.com)
Corporations are directly contracting with health-systems to provide higher-quality care to their employees at a lower cost…Boeing,.. has negotiated directly with local health-systems to offer more affordable health benefits to more employees...
- Next-gen APIs will exploit “bugs” human gut (in-pharmatechnologist.com)
Irish researchers say the young field of gut microbiota is a pharmaceutical and regulatory "dream" with clear targets… Gut microbial communities consist of hundreds of abundant bacteria species and perhaps thousands of molecules at physiologically relevant concentrations,…we want to harvest them to improve human health...
- Large Employers Look To Tighten Control Of Costs For Expensive Drugs (khn.org)
More than half of large employers in 2016 will aim to more tightly manage employees’ use of high-priced specialty drugs, one of the fastest-growing expenses in their health plans…companies still expect the cost of specialty drugs…continue rising at a double-digit annual rate — well ahead of the pace for traditional pharmacy drugs or companies’ overall spending on health benefits…