- Pharmacy Compounding Missouri Lethal Injections Must Be Publicized (pharmacytimes.com)
Missouri Department of Corrections has violated the state’s Sunshine Law by refusing to reveal the name of a pharmacy that compounds lethal injections,...compounding pharmacy ....provide pentobarbital for executions.
- India’s top court seeks review of drug pricing policy (newsdaily.com)
India’s Supreme Court has asked the federal government to reexamine its pricing policy for essential medicines after a group of non-governmental organizations challenged the provisions,...the formula by which prices of essential medicines are currently being fixed in India as "unreasonable and irrational",...government currently caps the prices of more than 500 essential medicines..
- Oklahoma: Executions Are Set for 3 Who Lost Appeal Over Drug (nytimes.com)
Oklahoma’s highest criminal court...set execution dates for three death row inmates who challenged the use of a drug that will be used in their lethal injections.
- Prosecutor baffled by doctor’s sealed records in child porn case (reviewjournal.com)Sealed sex crimes case against doctor leaves unanswered questions (reviewjournal.com)
Confusion reigned in Clark County District Court...all parties tried to determine how and why records of a sex crime case involving a Las Vegas doctor were sealed in 2006.
- Court ruling clears way for Novartis’ low-cost biotech drug (medicalxpress.com)
federal appeals court has ruled that Novartis can begin selling its lower-cost copy of an Amgen Inc. drug (Zarxio biosimilar to Neupogen)....rejecting a bid to further delay the launch of the knock-off biotech medication.
- CIOs should prepare for possibility of lawsuits following security breaches (fiercehealthit.com)
Chief information officers may soon have to find themselves lawyers, because as cybersecurity attacks increase, the IT leaders could end up in the courtroom,…In the wake of the fallout from the news that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management was hacked, exposing the records of millions of federal employees,...
- Ex-pharma manager pleads guilty in drug sales fraud (reuters.com)
..former district manager for drugmaker Warner Chilcott has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in connection with sales of osteoporosis medications Actonel and Atelvia.
- Las Vegas chiropractor disciplined for having sex with student (reviewjournal.com)
Las Vegas chiropractor (Dr. Timothy Francis) has been disciplined for having sex with a woman who was his student and patient after seducing her by claiming they were married in past lives, according to the Chiropractic Physicians Board of Nevada….on probation for three years,…also undergo testing regarding ethics and the law….
- Omnicare agrees to settle with government in anti-kickback suit (modernhealthcare.com)
Omnicare and the federal government plan to settle a lawsuit accusing Omnicare of accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks from Abbott Laboratories in exchange for pushing doctors to prescribe a certain drug to dementia patients,..
- Supreme Court won’t hear Nevada patient dumping case (rgj.com)
..Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from Nevada over a lawsuit that claims the state wrongfully bused indigent psychiatric patients to San Francisco without paying the costs of their medical care.