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Hy-Vee announced…that it would be placing retail clinics in two new Twin Cities-area stores opening in September…in the New Hope and Oakdale stores, Hy-Vee has teamed with North Memorial Health Care, whose physician assistants and nurses will staff the North Memorial Express Clinics…customers will not only have access to our in-store dietitians and pharmacists, but now they will be able to seek health, wellness and preventive care services all in one stop,..

'We've started by pairing the oldest and the newest tools in the medical toolkit – the stethoscope and the smartphone.'…The FDA has cleared Eko Core, a digital stethoscope designed by medical devices startup Eko Devices..."a next-generation" stethoscope – billed as the only one on the market to wirelessly stream heart sounds to a HIPAA-compliant smartphone app. It is also the first to integrate heart sounds directly into the patient's EHR.

Drugmakers in Japan, U.S. and Europe are teaming up to discover new drugs based on human genetic data. Led by the National Cancer Center of Japan, the joint research by private companies and academic institutions will collect genetic information from cancer patients to build a database for clinical trials.

Nevada Division of Insurance said…that it has approved 2016 health insurance rates for individual and small-group coverage…For small businesses and their employees, premiums will rise an average of 5 percent,…Consumers who buy a plan through the state's Nevada Health Link insurance exchange will see an average premium gain of 8.7 percent. Individual buyers off of the exchange will pay 9.6 percent more…

Bruce Berger, PhD, president of Berger Consulting LLC, discusses the behavioral patterns that contribute to a patient’s propensity to be more or less adherent to their medications. (video)

GlaxoSmithKline faces constraints in supplying hepatitis B treatment Tenozet in Japan because of curbed operations at its China plant that makes the treatment after a massive chemical explosion that rocked country's Tianjin manufacturing hub in early August…said cleanup operations related to the..blast have blocked access to the plant where Tenozet is produced and the facility has remained idled since last month's explosion.

Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada and the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center…announced a partnership to provide treatment and cooperation in clinical trials…USC Norris brand joins the Cleveland Clinic, Stanford Hospital and other distinguished names affiliated with health care providers in Southern Nevada… Such partnerships widen the scope of therapies and procedures available in Southern Nevada..

Chris Hatwig, MS, FASHP of Apexus discusses what health-system pharmacists need to know about the potential for HRSA audits to review 340B program compliance requirements. (video)

Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division…announced today the indictment and arrest of Dr. Gerald Surya, an internist and senior aviation medical examiner with offices at JFK International Airport... sold prescriptions for oxycodone, a powerful opioid painkiller, and other controlled substances to a select group of "patients" in exchange for cash...allegedly wrote prescriptions in the names of individuals with no legitimate medical need for the controlled substances..

In Northern Nevada, the medical marijuana industry is ramping up. New cultivation facilities, dispensaries and producers are coming online, and with that, one type of ancillary business must take on a vital part of the process: testing laboratories…One of these businesses, a small testing facility which sits in the heart of Sparks, is called 374 Labs… When it comes to medical marijuana, Nevada requires business to run a gauntlet of testing requirements ranging from mold and microbials to heavy metals and pesticides, not to mention the tetrahydrocannabinol..