- Fetal tissue research declining, still important (newsdaily.com)
political battle over the use of fetal tissue in medical research has been reinvigorated by the release of undercover videos….interest in the use of fetal tissue is dwindling,…Newer, less-controversial technologies, including the "reprogramming" of adult skin cells to create specific types of stem cells, have rendered fetal tissue less central…
- First Word Pharma – Daily News Roundup Video for July 31, 2015 (firstwordpharma.com)
- Las Vegas Valley to see more hospital construction into 2016 (reviewjournal.com)
hospital building spurt in Southern Nevada that will add more than 400 rooms by the end of next year.
- St. Rose Dominican Hospital: 100 beds
- Spring Valley Hospital: 144 beds
- Henderson Hospital: 142 beds
- Southern Hills Hospital: 46 beds
- Centennial Hills Hospital earns Consumer Reports’ top score (reviewjournal.com)
Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas today was among nine hospitals nationwide to earn Consumer Reports' highest rating for avoiding infections....Centennial Hills got 61 out of 100 on....overall safety score based on avoiding infections, readmissions, C-sections and adverse surgical events.
- Pharmacogenomics could boost community pharmacy sales (drugtopics.modernmedicine.com)
Pharmacogenomics has the potential to save the U.S. healthcare industry $136 billion in adverse drug events and serve as a profit center for community pharmacies,… "If we can get in there with this precision medicine, eliminate the trial-and-error approach, and really help our patients, we can save the healthcare system not only money but also these patients’ pain and suffering,"...
Benefits of pharmacogenomics
- Pharmacists remain the medication experts in the healthcare arena.
- Pharmacogenomics can increase pharmacy sales.
- Increase patient retention and differentiate the pharmacy from competitors.
- Improve collaboration with other healthcare professionals.
- Nevada’s first medical pot dispensary now open in Sparks (rgj.com)
- A first for Northern Nevada - 'It’s an herb that helps people'
- Building out a business - There are two properties that make up Silver State Relief’s pot enterprise
- Sparking up in Sparks - 'We expected a lot of pushback'
- Unprecedented access - 'I get the stigma of this business'
- Doing things by the book - 'There’s a lot of snake oil in this industry'
- Pharmacist Home Visits Improve Heart Failure Management (pharmacytimes.com)
Community pharmacists (University of Rhode Island) who expand their roles and make home visits to heart failure patients after hospital discharge can improve outcomes… investigators created a community pharmacist-provided home health service…this program facilitated successful transitions of care, improved medication adherence, and decreased 30-day HF-related (heart failure) hospital readmission rates…
- Sainsbury’s sells pharmacy business to rival Lloyds Pharmacy (telegraph.co.uk)Sainsbury’s and Celesio form pharmacy partnership (celesio.com)
Britain's second biggest supermarket sells its pharmacy business to Celesio, the German parent of Lloyds Pharmacy….sold its chain of pharmacies £125m ($195 million)… includes 277 in-store pharmacies and four Sainsbury's-branded hospital pharmacies.
- 1st legal medical pot sold in Nevada 15 years after approval (washingtonpost.com)
Fifteen years after Nevadans voted to legalize it, medical marijuana was sold legally in the state for the first time Friday at a dispensary in a strip mall about 5 miles east of downtown Reno.(Sparks)
- Pharmacy Times Week in Review: July 31, 2015 (pharmacytimes.com)
Ashley Talamo, Publisher: Pharmacy Times...(PTNN) This weekly video program highlights the latest in pharmacy news, product news, and more. (video)