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Podcast interview with..David G. Miller, RPh, International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists Executive Vice President, and Jay McEniry, Executive Director, Patients and Physicians for Rx Access...topic is Tricare, and the current issues facing compounding pharmacists, and most importantly, the patients they serve.

GSK confirms it has chosen Bangalore (India)for its sixth production facility in the country,… state of Karnataka has approved a 50-acre tract...for the project, …The £85 million ($132.6 million) plant and warehouse, which is slated to be complete in 2017, is being built in anticipation of growth in sales for areas like gastroenterology and anti-inflammatory medicines.

New York City officials have launched aggressive measures to stop the spread of Legionnaires' disease,...death toll in the outbreak, which has been concentrated in the South Bronx, has now hit double-digits, with 10 dead and 100 confirmed sick. Of those, 53 have been treated and released from hospitals..."We are doing everything that we can,"....

Eli Lilly…was cleared of liability in the first trial involving claims that its antidepressant Cymbalta caused severe withdrawal symptoms, including suicidal thoughts and electric shock-like sensations,…Eli Lilly has been sued by roughly 250 plaintiffs who say that the company downplayed warnings about symptoms that can occur when patients quit the popular drug, which has annual sales of about $3.9 billion.

School of Medicine and UNLV co-administer grant to foster research that will improve health...mission is "to increase the quantity, quality, and number of successful NIH grant applications in clinical and translational research." Clinical research studies answer specific health questions. Translational research implements a "bench to bedside" process of applying laboratory knowledge to produce new drugs, devices and treatment options for patients.

Li Tiantian, a Chinese doctor turned tech entrepreneur, is a leading light of the country’s much-trumpeted healthcare reform drive. His medical networking platform DXY.com …has attracted funding from tech giants … reality is rather different… a lack of support by Beijing and obstacles working with China’s huge, fragmented public healthcare sector...

Hospitals are worried a new rule from the Federal Communications Commission that will allow unlicensed devices to use the same wireless band as patient monitors could cause dangerous interference with the medical systems… FCC will allow unlicensed devices developed in the future to communicate on the TV and 600 mhz bands, part of which is now used by wireless medical telemetry systems, which allows vital-sign sensors to communicate with patient monitors and nurse station monitors.

Amarin won what was being called a First Amendment free speech victory for drugmakers. It got a federal court to say the FDA cannot bar Amarin from discussing off-label use of its fish-oil drug Vascepa for a wider group of patients than it is approved for…not clear how big a victory the ruling will be given it came in a lawsuit Amarin brought against the FDA as a defensive move.

Venezuela transplant patients are left to take drugs for animals, not humans, since medication to avoid transplant organ rejection can no longer be found in the country, hit by endemic shortages of basic food and medication. (video)...

Greece’s health care system is collapsing, and the tragedy should be a cautionary tale for the United States,…Beds, Drugs in Short Supply… policy of accepting patients only on "emergency days," two or three times a week…"Greek patients are lining the hallways, waiting and hoping for treatment,"… "The Greek health care system is failing to provide needed prescription medicine to its patients,"...