- Health Spending to Gobble Up More of U.S. Economy in Next Decade (bloomberg.com)
Spending on health care will take up an increasing proportion of the U.S. economy over the next decade as the population ages and more people gain insurance coverage under Obamacare,…Payments for hospitals, doctors, drugs and insurance will rise by about 5.8 percent a year through 2024, 1.1 percentage points faster than overall economic growth,...
- New Findings from Midwestern University in the Area of Health and Medical Informatics Described (Towards creating the perfect electronic prescription) (pharmacychoice.com)
e-prescribing…full potential for improving the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of prescription drug delivery, important work remains...ultimate goal…a clear, complete, and unambiguous e-prescription order that can be seamlessly received, processed, and fulfilled…without the need for additional clarification… new e-prescription transaction …NCPDP SCRIPT Standard…. move the industry closer to achieving this vision...
- UNLV researchers open a new front in HIV battle (reviewjournal.com)
collection of biological codes sits in a library at UNLV…focus is learning how the codes can help cells fight off HIV…work can be used to develop drugs much faster…second would be to apply the codes to a variety of other diseases and understand how the affected cells work… Lastly…would be to create personalized drugs for people by figuring out their own genetic codes.
- One big myth about medicine: We know how drugs work (washingtonpost.com)
Here’s how we think we discover powerful new medicines: Scientists dig deep into biology and zero in on a molecular Achilles’ heel that could disable a devastating disease,..They concoct experimental drugs that hit the target....Here’s how we actually develop...treatments: good old-fashioned observation, trial and error, and luck
- GAO IDs 3 ways DEA can improve communications with pharmacists, manufacturers (drugstorenews.com)PRESCRIPTION DRUGS More DEA Information about Registrants Controlled Substances Roles Could Improve Their Understanding and Help Ensure Access (gao.gov)
lack of effective communications between the Drug Enforcement Agency and both pharmaceutical distributors and chain pharmacy headquarters has impacted legitimate access to pain medicines, according to a report released by…Government Accountability Office…Both distributors and retail pharmacies still request improved guidance and a greater degree of interaction with the DEA, though the agency does not concur,…
- Imperfect vaccines could make viruses more dangerous, at least in chickens (washingtonpost.com)Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens (journals.plos.org)
vaccines widely used by humans today…are what we'd call "perfect" vaccines. But new research suggests that "imperfect" or "leaky" vaccines -- ones that don't make their hosts totally immune to the disease...might have a surprising downside…this so-called leakiness only exists in vaccines used to treat farm animals….researchers warn that as humankind tackles bigger, badder diseases,…. potential danger of leaky vaccines..
- TCGRx rolls out ATP 2 tablet packaging system (chaindrugreview.com)
Pharmacy automation provider TCGRx has released the ATP 2, a next-generation automated tablet packaging system….enables pharmacies to run leaner…by reducing labor and operating costs…system provides continuous operation while focusing on redundancy and uptime…
- Experimental MERS vaccine shows promise in animal studies (newsdaily.com)
Researchers…trying to develop a vaccine against the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus say they have had early signs of success in animal experiments.
- Some serious drug side effects not told to FDA within 15 days (newsdaily.com)
Companies fail to report roughly one in 10 serious and unexpected medication side effects to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration within a 15-day window specified by federal regulations to protect patient safety…Drug manufacturers are also less likely to disclose serious adverse events within this window when patient deaths are involved than when complications aren’t fatal,…
- Panel: Despite health industry advances, education remains in ‘Dark Ages’ (fiercehealthit.com)
Healthcare education is still "back in the Dark Ages," and as new advances in information and technology change the industry, the way the workforce learns and is educated also needs a reboot,...