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Gov. Tom Wolf signed into law on Friday House Bill 182, which allows pharmacists to administer the flu vaccine to patients 9 years of age and older,…bill also allows licensed, trained pharmacy interns to immunize under direct supervision of a pharmacist who possesses an immunization license…

…annual review of the latest Fortune 500 list. Every year, …"follow the dollar" and understand how drug channel intermediaries make money…. I explore the profitability and shareholder returns of the largest drug wholesalers, chain pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Too much data documentation may distract hospital infection preventionists from their main job—reducing the prevalence of hospital-acquired conditions,…Two full-time infection-prevention specialists at one 355-bed acute-care hospital logged…about 5/hrs/day..at…public reporting…in lieu of what they preferred to do: rounding, staff and patient education, product analysis and safety preparedness.

Fostering innovation "is critical to effectively addressing the challenges of today and delivering for those we serve," …announcing seven winners… The NIH 3D Print Exchange/ Transforming Health Provider Loan Repayment Programs / Peri-Operative Surgical Home/ The Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network to Reduce Infant Mortality/ Linking Healthcare & Community Services/ Stretching NIH Research Dollars Further/ Project Fish SCALE

California’s Assembly…approved a hotly contested bill requiring that nearly all public schoolchildren be vaccinated,…one of the nation’s strictest vaccine laws by striking the state’s personal-belief exemption. Only children with serious health issues would be allowed to opt out of mandatory vaccine schedules. Unvaccinated children would need to be homeschooled.

House Committee on VA Affairs today held a hearing on the Depart. of Veterans Affairs’ current budget, which reportedly faces a $2.6 billion shortfall…AHA urged Congress to reject any requests…to redirect funding for the Veterans Choice program to other VA programs. "Hospitals and health systems providing care for veterans in their communities …have invested resources to execute contracts and ensure veterans have access to care,"..

Failure to predict workload increases in cities where more veterans are coming forward for services was just one of the reasons the VA is facing a $2.6 billion shortfall…..Southern Nevada,…the number of veterans receiving care since the new North Las Vegas VA Medical Center opened in 2013 has jumped 18 percent.

Goldwater Institute launched RightToTry.org, the official website of the national movement to adopt Right To Try laws in all 50 states….allow doctors to prescribe treatments to the terminally ill that are being used in clinical trials but are not yet on pharmacy shelves…expands access to potentially life-saving treatments…

The 21st Century Cures Act, a…bill aimed at fueling medical innovation, would cost $106 billion to implement and its cost-saving provisions—including limiting Medicaid pay for durable medical equipment—would yield $12 billion over the next decade,..

Police knew in 2006 that a Las Vegas doctor had been accused of sex crimes against a teenager. But that case was sealed; its outcome unknown. The Nevada Board of Medical Examiners…knew about the 2006 charges….now accused of having sex with a sedated girl while in his office and videotaping it….