Author: Peter

Like many professionals, physicians take time off to raise children, care for sick family members or to recover from their own illnesses. Some want to return from retirement or switch from non-clinical jobs back to seeing patients. But picking up where they left off is more difficult in medicine than in most careers........ change occurs quickly. Drugs, devices and surgical techniques that were standard a decade ago may now be obsolete.

I can’t recall ever seeing the leader of an ongoing trial express major doubts about the value of a drug or publicly differ with the sponsor about its potential significance. (And yet, somehow, so many of these promising breakthrough products have failed utterly.) ..... this doesn’t mean that the opinions of trial leaders should be ignored or that they have no value. But it does mean that the audience for these opinions should be fully aware of the full context of the remarks, and that additional sources should be sought.

The company wanted to offer local youngsters opportunities to learn about retail, hospital, and clinical pharmacy, and then provide them with summer internships working at local retail chains. CVS Health’s Pathways to Pharmacy program offered 28 to 30 students a real chance to experience the retail pharmacy environment and provided them the support of a pharmacist mentor, a stipend for their participation, and help with transportation and housing, if needed.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted down the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement on Friday, ensuring a continued debate between branded and generic pharmaceutical manufacturers over the trade pacts possible impact on the availability of generic drugs. That is because the intellectual property provisions in TPP are designed to give longer protection to patented drugs and postpone the entry of cost-saving generic medicines. ..That is because the intellectual property provisions in TPP are designed to give longer protection to patented drugs and postpone the entry of cost-saving generic medicines.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser vowed Monday to crack down hard on suppliers of synthetic drugs after a spike in overdoses sent dozens to area hospitals in the past month. Bowser plans to introduce emergency legislation this week that would give the D.C. police chief authority to shut down any business found selling the drugs for a period of 96 hours while police investigate.

The decision last week by experts at the Food and Drug Administration to endorse a pair of medicines aimed at combating heart disease brought on the latest round of hand-wringing over prescription drug costs. The drugs, which work to reduce cholesterol, are projected to cost anywhere from $7,000 to $12,000 annually once on the market.

Having pharmacists on primary care teams monitoring the treatment of blood pressure in patients with Type 2 diabetes have a significant impact on improved outcomes, according to a study published in the May/June issue of the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association.

Brius Healthcare Services has 81 facilities stretching from San Diego to Roseville to Eureka. In the past year, some of the facilities have become the target of police scrutiny, lawsuits, stiff regulatory fines and state and federal investigations that have uncovered numerous alleged violations......

In the 1990s, it was the Internet. In the early 2000s, it was about mobility. Now, it's the era of "living services." ..... healthcare organizations – will be soon providing a "new wave of transformative digital services."And the one area where this wave will appear first? It's the healthcare industry, officials point out. Think quantified self-health tracking devices. Think wearables and mobile health platforms that are helping consumers manage myriad chronic diseases and wellness.

Target plans to sell its pharmacy business to CVS Health for $1.9 billion and rebrand its nearly 1,700 prescription departments as CVS/pharmacy in a blockbuster deal that stunned the healthcare world.....CVS Health also will acquire Target’s 80 clinic locations and rebrand them as MinuteClinic,...