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...University of Nevada Medical School...Currently operating as a split school in Reno and Las Vegas, medical education and care will change dramatically in the state thanks to the 2015 Legislature,...

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.

Track-and-trace requirements of the Drug Quality and Security Act will take effect tomorrow (today), but the FDA will not enforce the product tracing obligations for pharmacies until November.

Medical tourism…many patients may return from abroad with costly infections or complications. "People are travelling abroad without necessarily understanding that if (something) goes wrong they are not covered in the same way in terms of redress if they were treated by the National Health System or treated privately..."

..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.

The Biosimilars Council, a division of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association,...strongly urged the Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration to avoid any departure from the currently accepted international nonproprietary naming system….distinguishable names for biosimilars and biologics would erect barriers to patient access to new, more affordable medicines and could jeopardize their safety.

21st Century Cures Act contains good ideas for streamlining development and evaluation of new drugs and devices, but other provisions could lead to an approval process that is less safe, …nontraditional study designs and methods of data analysis…"shorter or smaller clinical trials"....redefine the evidence

...adoption of technology-driven medication synchronization by community pharmacies results in improved patient adherence, increased revenue streams, and overall improvement in business optimization for pharmacies. That’s according to an analysis of five pharmacy case studies conducted for the National Community Pharmacists Association.

Retailers can expect their labor costs to rise under a new proposal from the Obama administration… food service managers, first-line servers of food preparation and first-line supervisors of retail store workers are…to be affected by the rule…”the law of unintended consequences at a time when the economy and those struggling the most can least afford it”..

…offsite doctors with the assistance of remote-controlled robots and direct bedside care providers to be just as effective,.., compared with typical in-person care…On-site…5 minutes per patient…offsite doctors averaged 8 minutes due to slow or dropped Internet connections and time needed to operate the robot.