- Gadget Guide: 5 Helpful Apps for Pharmacy Students (pharmacytimes.com)
- FDA Drug Shortages current drug shortages, resolved shortages, and discontinuations of drug products (free)
- NAPLEX Flashcards - 2900 premade flashcards on medications, diseases, disorders, and a general review ($4.99)
- VaccTrack Vaccine Immunizations - immunization tables for children, teens, adults, and special populations (free)
- IDdx: Infectious Disease Queries - review symptoms associated with a disease (free)
- iPHARMACY - Drug Guide & Pill Identifier (free)
- Medical Informatics Sued Over Data Breach Affecting 4M (law360.com)
class action filed in Indiana federal court has accused Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. (electronic medical record services provider) of ignoring warning signs that its security systems were inadequate to prevent… data breach exposing medical information and other data on nearly 4 million Americans…had a duty to protect the sensitive information stored in its databases....
- Nevada’s first medical pot dispensary now open in Sparks (rgj.com)
- A first for Northern Nevada - 'It’s an herb that helps people'
- Building out a business - There are two properties that make up Silver State Relief’s pot enterprise
- Sparking up in Sparks - 'We expected a lot of pushback'
- Unprecedented access - 'I get the stigma of this business'
- Doing things by the book - 'There’s a lot of snake oil in this industry'
- Pharmacist Home Visits Improve Heart Failure Management (pharmacytimes.com)
Community pharmacists (University of Rhode Island) who expand their roles and make home visits to heart failure patients after hospital discharge can improve outcomes… investigators created a community pharmacist-provided home health service…this program facilitated successful transitions of care, improved medication adherence, and decreased 30-day HF-related (heart failure) hospital readmission rates…
- Fetal tissue research declining, still important (newsdaily.com)
political battle over the use of fetal tissue in medical research has been reinvigorated by the release of undercover videos….interest in the use of fetal tissue is dwindling,…Newer, less-controversial technologies, including the "reprogramming" of adult skin cells to create specific types of stem cells, have rendered fetal tissue less central…
- Sainsbury’s sells pharmacy business to rival Lloyds Pharmacy (telegraph.co.uk)Sainsbury’s and Celesio form pharmacy partnership (celesio.com)
Britain's second biggest supermarket sells its pharmacy business to Celesio, the German parent of Lloyds Pharmacy….sold its chain of pharmacies £125m ($195 million)… includes 277 in-store pharmacies and four Sainsbury's-branded hospital pharmacies.
- 1st legal medical pot sold in Nevada 15 years after approval (washingtonpost.com)
Fifteen years after Nevadans voted to legalize it, medical marijuana was sold legally in the state for the first time Friday at a dispensary in a strip mall about 5 miles east of downtown Reno.(Sparks)