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CVS Health… announced the launch of ScriptSync™, a new pharmacy service that enables patients with multiple medications to pick up their eligible maintenance prescriptions in a monthly…visit…patients…can manage their ScriptSync prescriptions 24/7 using…online support tools…aims to make it easier and more convenient for patients to take their medications as prescribed...

Arkansas has bought drugs it plans to use for lethal injections,… as it looks to end a decade-long hiatus on executions…law allows information on the drugs used in executions and the vendors supplying them to remain secret…reports said the drugs included midazolam,..

Department of Health and Human Services will fund 266 new primary care community health center sites in high-need areas nationwide to the tune of $169 million.. new sites, infused with Affordable Care Act funds, will increase care access for more than 1.2 million patients, according to HHS, building on $101 million the department gave to the program in May...

Corporations are directly contracting with health-systems to provide higher-quality care to their employees at a lower cost…Boeing,.. has negotiated directly with local health-systems to offer more affordable health benefits to more employees...

GAO found indicators of potential prescription-medication fraud and abuse among thousands of Medicaid beneficiaries and hundreds of prescribers during fiscal year 2011…

• More than 16,000 of the 5.4 million beneficiaries potentially engaged in "doctor shopping,"
• About 700 beneficiaries received more than a 1-year supply of the same drug…
• Recommendation: ..enhance monitoring of potentially wasteful or abusive practices in the Medicaid program, …require states to report to CMS whether their state has lock-in programs for abusers of noncontrolled substances and prohibitions on pharmacy automatic refills, …

Pharmacists’ refusal to fill prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraception has sparked national controversy…reports have surfaced in at least 25 states, according to the National Women’s Law Center, a legal advocacy group focused on women’s issues. Many of these refusals are based on personal beliefs, rather than medical or professional concerns.

…work gives satisfaction. What gives pharmacists satisfaction in the workforce? That depends on a number of factors.

Immunotherapy is being hailed as the future of cancer treatment. Harnessing the body’s own immune system to attack and kill cancer cells,..surging in the biotech and pharmaceutical space…identifying more high-performing immune cells… Engineers..with physicians… have invented new software that can pinpoint tens of thousands – and even hundreds of thousands – of these cells…

Las Vegas physician (osteopathic medicine) in practice for more than 20 years in Southern Nevada lost his license…for code of conduct violations..Dr. David Moon of Accelerated Rehabilitation and Pain Center had been accused of poor record keeping, improper prescribing practices, failing to supervise his physician assistants and issues involving his arrest…in  2013….

New Zealand's opposition Labour Party and the Malaysian Medical Association …urged national negotiators to go slow on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, citing worries over the potential effect on drug costs… due to the veil of secrecy surrounding the negotiations, we remain uneasy about the potential outcome...