- Baltimore Man Finally Charged With Arson of CVS (weeklystandard.com)
Baltimore man has finally been charged with arson for setting ablaze a CVS pharmacy during..riots in April.
- Unapproved Otic Products Subject to FDA Seizure (pharmacytimes.com)
FDA is taking enforcement actions against manufacturers and distributors of unapproved prescription eardrops…products claim to relieve ear pain, infection, and inflammation, but have not been evaluated for safety, effectiveness, and quality…the products’ labels do not disclose that they lack FDA approval, health care professionals may be unaware of related risks.
- Converting Dosage Cups to Metric Dosing Could Prevent Death (pharmacytimes.com)
Health care professionals should stop using dosing cups that measure in drams…fatal event reported to the Institute of Safe Medication Practices…a nurse misread the scale on a commonly used dosing cup as mL when measuring a dose of morphine sulfate oral solution 20 mg/mL…Instead of administering 1 mL (20mg),..the nurse administered 1 dram, or nearly 75 mg...
- Regional pharmacies find technology one reason to join national chains (americanpharmacynews.com)
...pharmacists need to be a part of a larger group to afford investments in electronic health record systems and other technology,… Pharmacists also have been squeezed by cuts in reimbursement from state Medicaid programs for the poor and at the same time are feeling the pressure from larger pharmacy benefit managers…
- Hospira wins French biosimilar drug tender at 45 percent discount (newsdaily.com)
..major French hospital group has chosen a cheap copycat version of a top-selling drug for treating its patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease and psoriasis in a victory for …biosimilars…the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris…decided to buy the biosimilar version of infliximab from Hospira .. after the company offered a discount of some 45 percent to branded Remicade…
- New mission for retired military dogs (chaindrugreview.com)
…retired military dogs that spent years working in war zones are putting their noses to new uses by helping police in the U.S. combat methamphetamine and other drugs, thanks in part to financial support from Westport Pharmaceuticals...
- OxyContin maker bows out of meeting on harder-to-abuse drug (bigstory.ap.org)
...makers of ...OxyContin have pulled out of a federal meeting to review the company's harder-to-abuse version of the much-debated drug...wants more time to review and analyze its data…has withdrawn its application that was slated to be reviewed before a Food and Drug Administration committee next week.
- Health Insurance Companies Seek Big Rate Increases for 2016 (nytimes.com)
Health insurance companies around the country are seeking rate increases of 20 percent to 40 percent or more, saying their new customers under the Affordable Care Act turned out to be sicker than expected. Federal officials say they are determined to see that the requests are scaled back.
- Permanent Injunction Issued Against Drug Manufacturing Company (pharmacytimes.com)
US Department of Justice,...entered the decree against Acino Products…Neither Rectacort-HC, nor GRx HiCort 25 have been approved…also do not have adequate directions for use,.. Even after several warnings… company continued to make and ship the unapproved products,..
- Ohio looks overseas in search for lethal drugs (bigstory.ap.org)
Ohio has explored overseas options in its search for lethal injection drugs no longer available in the U.S…policy calls for single doses of either sodium thiopental or pentobarbital,…it wants to import both ready-to-use supplies…as well as bulk supplies,..