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Testing on an edible on-dose authentication technology developed by TruTag Technologies is showing promising results for its use in combating counterfeit drugs…TruTech partnered with WuXi PharmaTech,…technology that can store a drug’s provenance information on individual tablets. The silica, dust particle-sized TruTags act like bar codes that can provide information about where a drug was manufactured and its dosage, as well as supply chain details like lot or batch number...

Food and Drug Administration has issued a new guide for parents about vaccinating their children. The online guide includes information about the benefits and risks of vaccination, the types of vaccines children routinely receive as well as a section with questions that parents are asking about vaccination.

Arkansas has bought drugs it plans to use for lethal injections,… as it looks to end a decade-long hiatus on executions…law allows information on the drugs used in executions and the vendors supplying them to remain secret…reports said the drugs included midazolam,..

…work gives satisfaction. What gives pharmacists satisfaction in the workforce? That depends on a number of factors.

Wearable devices will soon play a meaningful role in the monitoring of healthcare that goes well beyond the niche activity trackers that are on the market today, … Future functionality will include real-time, remote patient monitoring and post-surgery rehabilitation… will eventually offer support to healthcare institutions by sharing real-time data collected by the consumer..

GAO found indicators of potential prescription-medication fraud and abuse among thousands of Medicaid beneficiaries and hundreds of prescribers during fiscal year 2011…

• More than 16,000 of the 5.4 million beneficiaries potentially engaged in "doctor shopping,"
• About 700 beneficiaries received more than a 1-year supply of the same drug…
• Recommendation: ..enhance monitoring of potentially wasteful or abusive practices in the Medicaid program, …require states to report to CMS whether their state has lock-in programs for abusers of noncontrolled substances and prohibitions on pharmacy automatic refills, …

Pharmacists’ refusal to fill prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraception has sparked national controversy…reports have surfaced in at least 25 states, according to the National Women’s Law Center, a legal advocacy group focused on women’s issues. Many of these refusals are based on personal beliefs, rather than medical or professional concerns.

CVS Health… announced the launch of ScriptSync™, a new pharmacy service that enables patients with multiple medications to pick up their eligible maintenance prescriptions in a monthly…visit…patients…can manage their ScriptSync prescriptions 24/7 using…online support tools…aims to make it easier and more convenient for patients to take their medications as prescribed...

Immunotherapy is being hailed as the future of cancer treatment. Harnessing the body’s own immune system to attack and kill cancer cells,..surging in the biotech and pharmaceutical space…identifying more high-performing immune cells… Engineers..with physicians… have invented new software that can pinpoint tens of thousands – and even hundreds of thousands – of these cells…

Department of Health and Human Services will fund 266 new primary care community health center sites in high-need areas nationwide to the tune of $169 million.. new sites, infused with Affordable Care Act funds, will increase care access for more than 1.2 million patients, according to HHS, building on $101 million the department gave to the program in May...