- Actavis yanks more than half a million boxes of birth control pills for packaging faux pas (fiercepharmamanufacturing.com)
Actavis,...voluntarily recalling more than half a million boxes of contraceptives...the inserts were missing...
- The Future of Mobile Health Programs (specialtypharmacytimes.com)
Fiona Smythe, vice president of Strategy at mscripts, discusses developing trends in mobile health care applications.
- CMS offers new care model for Medicare (healthcareitnews.com)
'CMS aims to make sure that care in the home is supported by a value-based care delivery model that is consistent with the rest of the system'..poised to launch a new model of care designed to support greater quality of care among Medicare beneficiaries..
- Should You Be Concerned About The ‘Weekend Effect?’ (forbes.com)
Increased Death Risk Internationally–If Admitted To A Hospital Over The Weekend...Emergencies happen 24/7–so why is it when we are admitted to a hospital on a weekend, the care we receive might not be exactly the same as the care we are given during a standard work week?..
- Number of US heroin users rose 300,000 over a decade (hosted.ap.org)
number of U.S. heroin users has grown by nearly 300,000 over a decade,..think the increase was driven by people switching from opioid painkillers to cheaper heroin...
- Novartis Heart Failure Drug Gains Speedy FDA Approval (forbes.com)
Entresto, Novartis’s novel heart failure drug, gained FDA approval earlier today...approval arrived 6 weeks ahead of the drug’s action date...the drug had already received a fast track designation and an expedited review under the FDA’s priority review program.
- CVS Health resigning from U.S. Chamber over position on tobacco products (drugstorenews.com)
CVS Health is reportedly withdrawing its membership from the United States Chamber of Commerce over the chamber’s stance on smoking,..
- Doctor Pay Eclipses $240,000 As Value-Based Model Boosts Primary Care (forbes.com)
Compensation of primary care physicians continues to outpace that of their specialist counterparts rising nearly 3.6% last year to $241,273,..
- ‘Stunning’ number of large drug doses by doctor, expert says (news.yahoo.com)
Patients of a Detroit-area doctor received "stunning" doses of a powerful, expensive drug that exposed them to life-threatening infections,..as a judge heard details about a cancer specialist who fleeced insurance companies and harmed hundreds of people....
- Oregon opts to dramatically expand women’s birth control access (newsdaily.com)
Oregon is poised to dramatically expand access to birth control after Governor ...signed laws that will allow women to get a yearlong supply of oral contraceptives directly from pharmacists without a trip to the doctor,.