- China Jo-Jo Drugstores Becomes the First Hangzhou Pharmacy to Be Launched on Tencent’s WeChat Platform (pharmacychoice.com)
China Jo-Jo Drugstores, Inc.,.. pharmaceutical and health care products through its online and retail pharmacies, announced today that Hangzhou Jiuzhou Grand Pharmacy Chain Co., Ltd… has become the first… to launch stores on Tencent's WeChat platform, China's dominant mobile messaging app and social network with over 500 million active users.
- Drug laws in Japan pose problems for Toyota exec (usatoday.com)
The president of Toyota publicly backed Julie Hamp a day after she was arrested and accused of smuggling prescription painkillers (Oxycodone) into the country…. possession is illegal in Japan without a prescription and special permission is required to bring it into the country.
- 20 Pharmacy Technician Hacks to Make the Job Easier (pharmacytimes.com)
Given the upcoming changes in the pharmacy tech world, here are the Internet’s best pharmacy technician hacks, some of which are common sense, though others take more ingenuity. These 20 tricks can help techs save time, and potentially, sanity:
- Five things for pharma marketers to know: Monday, June 22 (mmm-online.com)
- 40 Charged, Huge Cash and Drug Seizures of Organization Tied to Murders (dea.gov)
DEA investigation that yielded over 50 federal indictments for a nationwide drug trafficking organization….operation yielded over $2 million in cash, 82 pounds of methamphetamine, 5 kilograms of heroin, 12 kilograms of cocaine, and over 1,000 pounds of marijuana. In addition, several murders were connected to members of this violent criminal network.
- Generic Drugs Should Look Similar to the Drugs They Reference, FDA Says (raps.org)
Food and Drug Administration is recommending drugs made by generic manufacturers closely mimic the physical attributes, including the size, shape and color, of the drugs they reference.
- Team-Based Care Reduces Inappropriate Prescribing for Older Patients (pharmacytimes.com)
Clinical pharmacists included in team-based interventions can reduce the proportion of potentially inappropriate medications dispensed to elderly patients in the emergency department ...Enhancing the Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Veterans Discharged… integrated provider education, electronic medical record-embedded pharmacy order sets, and peer feedback and benchmarking into the care model.
- FDA approves Medicines Co’s blood clot drug after a decade (newsdaily.com)
Food and Drug Administration …Medicines Co’s blood clot preventer Cangrelor (Kengreal), which has faced multiple setbacks since it first entered late-stage studies close to a decade back...funneled about $200 million into developing Cangrelor over the past decade, which included two unsuccessful trials and a pivotal study last year that drew scathing criticism as well as a rejection from the FDA.
- Deadly Chinese drugs are flooding the U.S., and police can’t stop them (washingtonpost.com)
Want to get your hands on a sizable amount of the latest designer street drug? It’s nearly as easy as typing “research chemicals” into Google, exasperated American officials say.….. endless list of Chinese Web sites hawking wholesale chemicals at a bargain price,…..
- A medical gold mine, buried underneath layers of red tape (fortune.com)
Health care has certainly been a laggard, largely because of data privacy rules…..cloud computing has become more broadly accessible, offering an opportunity for performance improvement across a range of industries.