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Every medication has risks as well as benefits, and people react to treatment differently. That’s why drug labels are pages long and filled with small print about the possible downsides. Sometimes those side effects actually exacerbate the problem the drug is intended to treat.

1. Addyi
2. Advair
3. Antidepressants
4. Osteoporosis Drugs
5. Epogen
6. MS Drugs

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the UK released its first guideline on antimicrobial stewardship,..is aimed at all health and social care practitioners (hospital and care home staff, general practitioners, dentists, podiatrists, pharmacists, and community nurses), commissioning and provider organizations, and users,..main recommendations are designed to promote and monitor sensible antimicrobial use through stewardship teams to review prescribing and resistance data and to provide feedback, education, and training to prescribers.

Washington and Oregon Walgreens locations will be getting new retail clinics through a new partnership with Providence Health and Services…The partnership will see three new Swedish Express Care and Providence Express Care clinics…Walgreens is harnessing Providence’s name recognition in the region to create a more coordinated care effort for retail clinics and move them beyond urgent care...

Diplomat Pharmacy has been named the exclusive distributor for Taro’s primary hyperkalemic and hypokalemic periodic paralysis treatment, Keveyis (dichlorphenamide)… Taro has created the Keys2Care program, which will provide a suite of patient support services to ensure people diagnosed with periodic paralysis can receive treatment with Keveyis as soon as possible…. expected to be available in the third quarter..

With revenue sliding, margins thinning and cash flow very light, these facilities lack reserves to offset market volatility…critical access hospitals will continue to earn less, Fitch Ratings this week said it does not expect the financial struggles to affect these hospitals' credit ratings due to their near 100 percent reimbursement from Medicare and political support that will stave off any attempt to cut payments...

Nye Regional Medical Center in Tonopah will close for business at noon this Friday, August 21st due to financial issues…. NRMC has struggled financially for the past several years. The hospital operations cannot be sustained any longer with expenses greater than revenues. In an effort to save the hospital we have tried to arrange partnerships/affiliations with other healthcare operations. These efforts have been unsuccessful due to our small size and remote location. We are out of options, time and funding."

EHR vendor Allscripts and CoverMyMeds have partnered to help patients receive their prescriptions faster…aims to increase the number of health plans available for Allscripts eAuth software clients… enables providers to authorize prescriptions electronically…Performing prior authorization electronically within EHR workflow helps improve efficiencies and reduce costs throughout the prior authorization process…

What happens when a healthcare organization's employees are found to have been inappropriately accessing patient medical records? The actions of one health system might serve as an example….14 of its employees were found to have accessed a high-profile patient's medical records "without a legitimate patient care need,"…"Appropriate actions have been taken with each employee, up to and including termination,"

Novartis has agreed to buy all remaining rights to ofatumumab (Arzerra) from Britain's GlaxoSmithKline for up to $1 billion, boosting the Swiss drugmaker's stable of multiple sclerosis treatments…. it is currently being developed for relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis and other auto-immune conditions…

AmerisoureBergen’s Good Neighbor Pharmacy network network announced ..that it awarded a total of $12,500 in college scholarships to seven high school seniors aspiring to enter the healthcare industry...granted in partnership with...28 pharmacies from Virginia and 16 from North Carolina participating in the program.

The 2015 Good Neighbor Pharmacy Scholarship winners and sponsors are:

• Allison Burns $5,000 – Hanover High School, Mechanicsville, Va. (Colonial Pharmacy)
• Mitchell Kreisel $2,500 – Currituck County High School, Barco, N.C. (Good Neighbor Pharmacy)
• Grant Kiser $1,000 – Harrisonburg High School, Harrisonburg, Va. (Fishersville Family Pharmacy)
• Katherine Quigley $1,000 – Stuarts Draft High School, Stuarts Draft, Va. (Stuarts Draft Family Pharmacy)
• Kaleigh Smith $1,000 – Nelson County High School, Lovingston, Va. (Stoney Creek Pharmacy)
• Charles Strimel $1,000 – Nelson County High School, Lovingston, Va. (Stoney Creek Pharmacy)
• Gibson Barker $1,000 – Eastern Alamance High School, Mebane, N.C. (Haw River Discount Drug)