- Attorney Kelly McIntosh to Present “Contracting and Affiliation Agreements” at Nevada Rural Health Summit (prweb.com)Registration and Agenda - Nevada Rural Health Summit (medicine.nevada.edu)
Kelly McIntosh…is the…attorney presenting at the Nevada Rural Health Summit, a two-day conference bringing together industry professionals dedicated to improving quality rural health care within Nevada. McIntosh will discuss contracting and affiliation agreements at the summit, joining legislators, educators, state agency leaders, and industry executives in sharing industry resources and best practices…The Nevada Rural Health Summit will be held on Nov. 12 and 13, at the University of Nevada, Reno Redfield Campus, sponsored by The University of Nevada School of Medicine, Office of Statewide Initiatives, and Nevada Rural Hospital Partners. Other topics to be discussed during the two-day summit include legislative updates, telehealth, recruitment, and other rural health care initiatives.
- Health District: 1,760 Norovirus Cases Reported in Washoe County (kolotv.com)
Washoe County Health District reports gastrointestinal illness outbreaks in schools and daycares have sickened 1,762 staffers and faculty as of ..Oct. 23...A Health District spokesman says a total of 17 schools continue to be in outbreak mode, including 15 schools, one daycare and one charter school.
- Nevada State Board of Pharmacy – October 2015 Newsletter (bop.nv.gov)
- Counseling Revisited Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1990.
- FDA Issues Warning About Name Confusion for Brintellix and Brilinta
- Seven Persistent Safety Gaffes in Community/Ambulatory Settings That Need to Be Resolved! Institute for Safe Medication Practices
- FDA Advises Caution Against Codeine for Treating Colds in Young Patients
- Daytrana Patch May Cause Permanent Skin Color Changes, FDA Warns
- Baxter International, Inc, Recalls Three Lots of IV Solutions Due to Particulate Matter
- FDA Warns Against Unapproved Prescription Ear Drops
- Acino Products in New Jersey Ordered to Stop Selling Rectacort-HC and GRx HiCort 25
- President Basch!
- Update From Medicaid Pharmacy Dispensing Fee Increase and Pricing Methodology Using NADAC Files
- Reminder – October 2015 Is Renewal Time for Pharmacists
- Nevada Board of Pharmacy – Notice of Intent to Act Upon a Regulation – Addition of Schedule I Substances (bop.nv.gov)
Nevada State Board of Pharmacy will hold a public hearing at 9:00 a.m., on Thursday, October 15, 2015, at the Hilton Garden Inn, 7830 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, Nevada. The purpose of the hearing is to receive comments from all interested persons regarding the adoption and amendment of regulations that pertain to chapters 453 and 639 of the Nevada Administrative Code.
The following information is provided pursuant to the requirements of NRS 233B.060
Amendment of Nevada Administrative Code 453.510 - Schedule I
1. The need for and the purposed regulation or amendment
The proposed amendment to NAC 453.510 will add newly identified synthetic drugs to the list of controlled substances listed on Schedule I, and provides for other matters properly related thereto.
- State of Nevada makes $3.8 million available to School of Medicine for research projects to improve women’s health (medicine.nevada.edu)
Through a settlement brokered by the State of Nevada Attorney General's Office, approximately $3.8 million is available to the University of Nevada School of Medicine for research projects aimed at improving women's health in Nevada…The State of Nevada obtained the settlement with pharmaceutical companies Wyeth, Pfizer and Pharmacia & Upjohn relating to claims regarding postmenopausal hormone therapy products…The funds will be distributed by the Attorney General's Office over a five-year period ending in 2019, with half the available research funds going to School of Medicine faculty in Reno and Las Vegas and the other half going to University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.
- Treating Addiction Without Narcotics (kolotv.com)
Join Together Northern Nevada teamed up…with UNR's Medical School to educate community members about a Sacramento-based pilot program that's treating addiction with a non-narcotic, non-addictive drug (naltrexone)…Prescription drug abuse is the number one growing problem in the country and Nevada is one of the highest-ranked states when it comes to prescription painkillers…"It's a big problem; we're the number two prescriber of oxycodone and hydrocodone in the nation,"…"People may not want to intentionally abuse prescription drugs but let's say they get injured, they take a narcotic prescription painkiller and become addicted to it, then they just keep coming back for more."...
- Pine Middle School Added to List Affected By Norovirus; McQueen Removed (kolotv.com)
...Washoe County Health District reports gastrointestinal illness outbreaks in schools and daycares have sickened about 500 students, staffers, and faculty. Health officials are working with the Washoe County School District and the daycares involved, documenting the illnesses and making recommendations to mitigate the situation, including exclusion of sick people and extensive thorough cleaning…noroviruses are responsible for the majority of cases...
- MD Labs solution could change, enhance pharmacists’ role (drugstorenews.com)
MD Labs (Reno based) is currently making the rounds to retail pharmacy operators with a new service solution that pharmacists are uniquely qualified to deliver. And it’s a solution that will significantly enhance the role pharmacists already play between providers and patients…That new service is pharmacogenetics, which uses the DNA from a cheek swab sample to help determine the best course of pharmacotherapy for an individual patient across 200 medicines — a number that’s growing…The new RxIGHT Pharmacogenetic Test...can eliminate trial-and-error prescribing of medicine, in which a doctor prescribes a medicine and measures the impact of that course of therapy after the fact, rather than quickly identifying the most appropriate course of therapy…It drives adherence and — perhaps most importantly — improves outcomes.
- Minden, Gardnerville area housing needed for medical students (medicine.nevada.edu)
University of Nevada School of Medicine is asking residents of Minden and Gardnerville to open their homes and hearts to medical students studying in their community later this year…Starting now, some members of the Class of 2016 will begin their four-week small community rotation requirement in these communities. The required program for graduation relies on the goodwill and generosity of community members to help house students during their four-week rotation…"We have placed students in the Minden and Gardnerville area in the past and hope we can rely on the town's willingness to do so again this year," said Jamie Anderson, director, Rural Medical Education for the medical school. "Our students have truly loved learning about these communities and working with the physicians there."
- Increasing Cost of Prescription Drugs: Capitalism should’t be blamed, it must be the government (nevadanewsandviews.com)
We are on the verge of a healthcare crisis in America. It is apparent that the cost of prescription drugs in this country is skyrocketing out of control, and it saddens me that government is at the root of the problem…What we are experiencing today is in no way a failure of capitalism, but rather a failure of government…as it stands, federal government regulations have made it so that pharmaceutical companies can charge whatever they want for…medications, If we really want to lower the cost of prescription drugs in this country, we must allow competition to flourish. This will make it so that all drug companies have to set fair prices in order to compete…