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China will expand medical insurance to cover all critical illnesses...State Council said 50 percent of the medical costs will be covered by insurance…healthcare … struggles with a scarcity of doctors, attacks by patients on medical staff and a fragmented drug distribution...

Community pharmacists (University of Rhode Island) who expand their roles and make home visits to heart failure patients after hospital discharge can improve outcomes… investigators created a community pharmacist-provided home health service…this program facilitated successful transitions of care, improved medication adherence, and decreased 30-day HF-related (heart failure) hospital readmission rates…

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…announced that they expect the average premium for a basic Medicare Part D prescription drug plan in 2016 to remain stable at about $32.50 per month.

CVS Health Corp. deliberately overcharged some pharmacy customers for generic drugs by submitting claims to their insurance companies at inflated prices, according to a lawsuit...seeks class-action status,... unspecified damages.

Columbia University Medical Center have developed a computer algorithm to greatly accelerate the drug production process…Detecting Mechanism of Action by Network Dysregulation uses a computational model of the human body's protein networks, and how they react with each other…able to perform experiments as different drugs enter the body, and can accurately track gene expression changes.

Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas today was among nine hospitals nationwide to earn Consumer Reports' highest rating for avoiding infections....Centennial Hills got 61 out of 100 on....overall safety score based on avoiding infections, readmissions, C-sections and adverse surgical events.

William J. O’Brien.. and Angela Rongione..charged …with running a "pill mill" from O’Brien’s medical offices… charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances…26 counts of illegally distributing oxycodone,…outside …professional practice and for no legitimate medical purpose...

class action filed in Indiana federal court has accused Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. (electronic medical record services provider) of ignoring warning signs that its security systems were inadequate to prevent… data breach exposing medical information and other data on nearly 4 million Americans…had a duty to protect the sensitive information stored in its databases....

National Anticorruption Directorate …investigation on deals between Romanian doctors and drug companies for cancer drug prescriptions might target 11 of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the local market…. anticorruption prosecutors….targeting... arrangements between doctors and pharma companies.

1. Roche
2. Actavis
3. Pfizer
4. Teva
5. Novartis
6. Alvogen
7. Sandoz
8. Glaxosmithkline
9. Egis
10. Romastru Trading
11. Glenmark

Protesters against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal outside a Maui resort where negotiators are meeting…pressing to conclude the largest regional trade accord ever,… No issue seems to elicit more passion than pharmaceuticals, where both sides are using the language of life and death…