- Expected Changes for Pharmacists in Next Years (pharmacytimes.com)
Anne Burns RPh Vice President of Professional Affairs at the American Pharmacists Association talks about the changes that pharmacists can expect to see in the coming years.
- Hospira wins French biosimilar drug tender at 45 percent discount (newsdaily.com)
..major French hospital group has chosen a cheap copycat version of a top-selling drug for treating its patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease and psoriasis in a victory for …biosimilars…the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris…decided to buy the biosimilar version of infliximab from Hospira .. after the company offered a discount of some 45 percent to branded Remicade…
- Permanent Injunction Issued Against Drug Manufacturing Company (pharmacytimes.com)
US Department of Justice,...entered the decree against Acino Products…Neither Rectacort-HC, nor GRx HiCort 25 have been approved…also do not have adequate directions for use,.. Even after several warnings… company continued to make and ship the unapproved products,..
- Regional pharmacies find technology one reason to join national chains (americanpharmacynews.com)
...pharmacists need to be a part of a larger group to afford investments in electronic health record systems and other technology,… Pharmacists also have been squeezed by cuts in reimbursement from state Medicaid programs for the poor and at the same time are feeling the pressure from larger pharmacy benefit managers…
- Pharmacy Tech Sold Vicodin for Gas Money (pharmacytimes.com)
Publix pharmacy technician has been fired and arrested after confessing to stealing Vicodin to pay for her gas money and other car expenses….she had been stealing the tablets…for about a year…She allegedly sold the pills to children…
- Health Insurance Companies Seek Big Rate Increases for 2016 (nytimes.com)
Health insurance companies around the country are seeking rate increases of 20 percent to 40 percent or more, saying their new customers under the Affordable Care Act turned out to be sicker than expected. Federal officials say they are determined to see that the requests are scaled back.
- Converting Dosage Cups to Metric Dosing Could Prevent Death (pharmacytimes.com)
Health care professionals should stop using dosing cups that measure in drams…fatal event reported to the Institute of Safe Medication Practices…a nurse misread the scale on a commonly used dosing cup as mL when measuring a dose of morphine sulfate oral solution 20 mg/mL…Instead of administering 1 mL (20mg),..the nurse administered 1 dram, or nearly 75 mg...
- Clark County Medical Society Announces 2015 Winged Heart Award and Student Rising Star Award Winners (prlog.org)
Clark County Medical Society announced the 2015 recipients of the Third Annual Winged Heart Award (Tammy Wert RN - University Medical Center; Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation) and the Student Rising Star Award.(Lindsey Murphy University of Nevada School of Medicine; Robert Wills - Touro University Nevada College of Medicine)...
- New mission for retired military dogs (chaindrugreview.com)
…retired military dogs that spent years working in war zones are putting their noses to new uses by helping police in the U.S. combat methamphetamine and other drugs, thanks in part to financial support from Westport Pharmaceuticals...
- OxyContin maker bows out of meeting on harder-to-abuse drug (bigstory.ap.org)
...makers of ...OxyContin have pulled out of a federal meeting to review the company's harder-to-abuse version of the much-debated drug...wants more time to review and analyze its data…has withdrawn its application that was slated to be reviewed before a Food and Drug Administration committee next week.