- Tianjin explosions hit GSK pharma production site (in-pharmatechnologist.com)
Explosions last week at a warehouse in Tianjin, China hit a GSK drug manufacturing plant, It did not reveal which drug products are affected. GSK has two businesses in ...area: Sino-American Tianjin Smith Kline & French Laboratories Ltd., and GSK (Tianjin) Co. Ltd., both pharmaceutical joint ventures with local companies. GSK’s two Tianjin businesses will jointly donate 1m RMB ($156,000) cash to the Red Cross to help the emergency response. The firm said it is "on standby" to provide essential medicines.
- Children’s Book Characterizes Pharmacist’s Role (pharmacytimes.com)
To cure Maddie’s strep throat in time for her birthday party, all the little girl needs is some medicine and encouragement from her pharmacist in the children’s book Maddie Visits the Pharmacist… Author Donna Keissami, PharmD …life-long dream to write a children’s story. She was …inspired to write the story so that she could read it to her 2-year-old son..
- 5 Pharmacy Technician Training Programs Starting Soon (pharmacytimes.com)
..technician’s role on the pharmacy team continues to evolve, many current and future techs have turned to their local community colleges for training…programs help students cultivate the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in the changing pharmacy environment, as well as prepare them to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam…meet the increasing demand for formally trained technicians, the following 5 schools have announced the launch or reaccreditation of technician training programs...
- East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee
- Southern Regional Technical College in Thomasville, Georgia
- East Central Community College Workforce Development Center in Decatur, Mississippi
- Spoon River College Outreach Center in Macomb, Illinois
- Hagerstown Community College in Hagerstown, Maryland
- State Accidentally Mails Out Private Health Information To The Wrong Patients (denver.cbslocal.com)
Protected health information from the (Colorado) Department of Health Care Policy and Financing was unintentionally mailed to the wrong people,… the letters were mailed between May 25 and July 5. A resident who received a letter not intended for that resident notified county workers about the error...
- AbbVie buys special review voucher for $350 million (reuters.com)
AbbVie Inc has bought a (FDA) priority review voucher from United Therapeutics Corp for $350 million that will allow it to accelerate the review process for one of its drugs…pediatric disease priority review voucher…eligible to have one of its drugs reviewed in six months, compared to the standard 10 months...AbbVie did not disclose its plans for the voucher...
- 5 Useful Career Skills Pharmacists Develop (pharmacytimes.com)
"If you weren’t a pharmacist, what would you be doing?" I get tons of diverse responses from faces that light up when they talk about it…Pharmacists are in a great position to reinvent themselves because they have developed the following skills over time that are useful in many career fields:
- Management skills
- Finance skills
- Mentoring skills
- Multitasking and efficiency skills
- Communication skills
- 10 Best-Selling Brand-Name Drugs in 2015 (pharmacytimes.com)
10 best-selling brand-name drugs have generated $48.5 billion in sales this year through June 2015,…gross sales from the following 10 drugs comprise 43% of the nearly $112.5 billion in total drug sales generated by the 100 best-selling drugs..
- Humira (Abbott) - $8.6 billion
- Abilify (Otsuka) - $7.2 billion
- Enbrel (Amgen) - $6.1 billion
- Crestor (AstraZeneca) - $6.1 billion
- Lantus Solostar (Sanofi-Aventis) - $5 billion
- Sovaldi (Gilead Sciences) - $4.9 billion
- Advair Diskus (GlaxoSmithKline) - $4.8 billion
- Nexium (AstraZeneca) - $4.7 billion
- Januvia (Merck) – $3.8 billion
- Lyrica (Pfizer) - $3.4 billion
- FDA approves first treatment for sexual desire disorder (fda.gov)Approved Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) (accessdata.fda.gov)
Addyi is being approved with a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy, which includes elements to assure safe use…because of the increased risk of severe hypotension and syncope due to the interaction between Addyi and alcohol…REMS requires that prescribers be certified… Additionally, pharmacies must be certified…Certified pharmacies must only dispense Addyi to patients with a prescription from a certified prescriber...
- Pharmacy Students Participate in Mock Trial Based on Real Error (pharmacytimes.com)
Considering that a pharmacist’s mistake may cost a patient’s life, one class at Auburn University’s Harrison School of Pharmacy prepares pharmacy students for the gravity of their actions…. Foundations of Pharmacy course for incoming students has included a mock trial… Begin imagining yourselves in the chair as the defendant in the case, a pharmacist who has practiced for some time [and who] made an error….
- F.D.A. Approves Addyi, a Libido Pill for Women (nytimes.com)FDA approves first treatment for sexual desire disorder (fda.gov)
first prescription drug to enhance women’s sexual drive won regulatory approval …victory for a lobbying campaign that had accused the Food and Drug Administration of gender bias for ignoring the sexual needs of women…Addyi (flibanserin) — is actually the first drug approved to treat a flagging or absent libido for either sex. Advocates who pressed for approval…Even the Score, said that a drug to improve women’s sex lives was long overdue… National Consumers League..the campaign behind Addyi … made a mockery of the system that regulates pharmaceuticals..