- Guide to Pharmacy Technician Salaries (pharmacytimes.com)
….pharmacy technicians make anywhere from $26,000 to $39,000 a year, though most make around $32,000 annually...depends on a number of factors, however, including experience, place of employment (company or geographic location), specific job duties, health care setting, and educational background...
- Investors Think This Company’s Gut Bacteria Are Worth $1.9 Billion (bloomberg.com)
Seres Therapeutics,...trying to create new medicines from the bacteria in the human gut,...most promising candidate is a pill…to treat Clostridium difficile,..via fecal transplants…re-colonize patients with beneficial gut flora.
- Egalet says drug less likely to be abused than other painkillers (reuters.com)
Egalet Corp…data showed its experimental painkiller was less likely to be abused than a form of morphine already being sold…study showed recreational opioid users did not like and were less prone to snort the company's painkiller, Egalet-001, than MS Contin.
- DEA using billboards to track pharmacy thieves (drugtopics.modernmedicine.com)
Drug Enforcement Administration is using billboards to post the faces of people suspected of looting dozens of pharmacies during Baltimore’s Freddie Gray riots in April…27 pharmacies and two methadone clinics were looted and an estimated 300,000 doses of drugs were stolen,…
- Former DEA Employee Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Credit Card Fraud Scheme (justice.gov)
…sentenced today to two years in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co…using fraudulently issued government credit cards… to pay restitution in the amount of $113,841.
- Nevada Board of Pharmacy: Chart Order Versus Prescription (bop.nv.gov)
…some hospitals are providing pharmaceutical services to hospital patients being discharged, and that some retail pharmacies are providing pharmaceutical services to long-term care facilities and/or skilled nursing facilities in violation of Nevada Revised Statutes and Nevada Administrative Code.
- Rite Aid hits the road with dermatologist screenings (drugstorenews.com)
Rite Aid will be teaming with The Skin Cancer Foundation….providing…customers free private screenings with a local dermatologist volunteer,…flagship early detection program, …raise skin cancer awareness and educate the public about the importance of prevention…
- Health groups sue FDA for Gilead hepatitis C drug trial data (newsdaily.com)
Food and Drug Administration was sued by two advocacy groups seeking to force the faster disclosure of clinical trial data...patients deserve more information about the "enormously costly" drugs…to make informed decisions about whether to use them.
- Supreme Court upholds use of death-penalty drug (marketwatch.com)
High Court rejects claims that midazolam can cause excruciating pain...states can continue to conduct executions using...midazolam…rejecting claims the drug poses too great a risk that condemned prisoners will suffer excruciating pain…prisoners who brought suit failed to suggest an alternative to midazolam.
- Pharmacy closed for manufacturing marijuana products (drugtopics.modernmedicine.com)
Oregon Board of Pharmacy has ordered the emergency closure of a pharmacy and the suspension of a pharmacist accused of manufacturing marijuana products and dispensing controlled substances without prescriptions…also accused of filling patient prescriptions at other pharmacies with their knowledge and numerous other violations.