Author: Peter

...anybody in the UK selling medicines online to the general public needs to be registered with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency....Anybody buying medicines online can check if the website is legitimately registered and will be able to click on the logo which will take them through to a list of approved sellers.

A California lawsuit accuses two surgeons and four hospitals in Las Vegas of participating in a massive health care fraud scheme that involved implanting counterfeit spinal hardware into unsuspecting patients.

The takeaway: David Kwiatkowski, who is serving a 39-year jail sentence for stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C, explains how he stole narcotics and continued to be hired for hospital jobs—despite repeatedly being caught.

...former pharmacy director at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City recently pled guilty to four counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance...admitted stealing nearly 200,000 oxycodone pills with an estimated street value of $5.6 million....hospital’s pharmacy director for 14 years.

...Anthem Inc said on Saturday it had offered $47 billion in cash and stock for smaller rival Cigna Corp, signaling a pick-up in the industry's long-awaited consolidation. The biggest U.S. health insurers are seeking acquisitions to boost membership in government-paid healthcare plans and the employer-based insurance that is Cigna's specialty.

The International Academies of Emergency Dispatch has awarded accreditation as an Emergency Communication Nurse System Accredited Center of Excellence to Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority’s Nurse Health Line. The Nurse Health Line is the first emergency care nurse system in the world to receive this accreditation from IAED.

"The pharmacist is really an untapped resource," But there's a big drawback for pharmacists. Now they can perform all these services once reserved for the doctor's office. But, they won't get paid for the extra time it takes to provide them. The law does not compel insurance companies,...to reimburse these services…

It’s all fun and games until the itching and burning starts. Ever vigilant public health officials...worry that online dating apps and so-called hook-up websites raise the risk of spreading sexually transmitted diseases. "These websites and apps can be very problematic, especially when we see STDs on the rise here in Clark County...." said Dr. Joe Iser, chief medical officer for the Southern Nevada Health District.

Drugs and dance music: It’s time to talk. "It’s a hot-button issue," ....at the EDMBiz conference held at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas last week. "We didn’t ever want to go near it because of the negative connotations..." Everybody knows it was happening, but nobody ever really has wanted to talk about it, certainly not many key figures within the electronic dance music community."

Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy students recently began working in a new sterile compounding laboratory constructed partly in response to the fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012. The lab…can hold up to 14 students working in the sterile environment….designed to comply with standards set by the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy and Chapter <797>.