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Police are looking for a robbery suspect who was wearing a ninja mask and armed with a sword when he demanded cash from a clerk at a Walgreens pharmacy in Placentia, California....the masked suspect had a martial arts-type sword and took off with about $200. The suspect was seen wearing a leather jacket, shirt, jeans and gloves, all of which were black.....

$57 million experiment to deliver better, more efficient care at federally funded health centers struggled to meet its goals and is unlikely to save money,… run by the Department of Health and Human Services’ innovation center… paints a picture of understaffed clinics struggling to file reports and participate in conference calls…while they did their normal jobs of caring for patients and trying to get paid by insurance plans.

online prescription drug seller has agreed to forfeit $450,000 in illegal sales after knowingly dispensing medication without a prescription… Aracoma Drug Company of West Virginia, received electronic, invalid prescriptions…issued from questionnaires completed over the Internet and not after a physician’s examination as required by law….

"Americans cannot afford to rely on 20th century methodologies for treatments when the world is on the cutting edge of new medical technologies. Federal agencies must be equipped to keep the U.S. at the forefront of medical innovation."… much of the report focuses on improving the FDA’s ability to work more quickly to evaluate and approve new devices and therapies.

California State Board of Pharmacy has suspended the license of a pharmacy technician who was revealed to have stolen the protected health information of approximately 100 patients....data theft was uncovered during a Secret Service raid at the apartment of Nicole Yvonne Flores...

release of draft guidance for the pharmaceutical industry called, "Request for Quality Metrics." …describes a set of measurements to …evaluate the quality of the facilities and the processes that manufacturers use to make FDA-regulated drugs and biologics…encourages…manufacturers to conduct robust quality measurements on their own products..We look forward to receiving comments..

European Union nations have until August 20 to suspend the sale of some 700 generic drugs made in India,...after an Indian firm contracted by drug companies to test the medications was found to have manipulated data...On-site verifications....showed irregularities "in each and every one of the nine trials inspected,"

proof-of-concept study…researchers have shown that results of common and routine blood tests are not affected by up to 40 minutes of travel via hobby-sized drones… investigators say that's promising news…people ..in rural and economically impoverished areas ...give health care workers quick access to lab tests.. Drones already have been tested as carriers of medicines…

GlaxoSmithKline,..was fined a record $483 million for corruption in China last year and … new allegations of bribery… paid Romanian doctors hundreds, and in one cases thousands, of euros between 2009 and 2012 for prescribing its medicines,…U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission,... are investigating GSK for possible breaches of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Pfizer… won’t bring an over-the-counter version of its cholesterol pill Lipitor to the U.S. market, after a trial found that patients couldn’t take the drug correctly without a doctor’s help…. trial looked at whether (patients)… would check their cholesterol after starting the drug, and take the right medical action after getting the results. The tests found that they couldn’t.