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The Biosimilars Council, a division of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association,...strongly urged the Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration to avoid any departure from the currently accepted international nonproprietary naming system….distinguishable names for biosimilars and biologics would erect barriers to patient access to new, more affordable medicines and could jeopardize their safety.

Two apps designed to assist those with visual impairments can now be used hands-free on wearable devices, such as Apple Watch...Novartis’s ViaOpta Nav app uses... vibration and voice guidance settings to…navigate unfamiliar environments using the device’s camera and voiceover features.

University of Nevada School of Medicine will offer two free outreach clinics in July. The clinics are open to people of all ages and are geared to serve Washoe County's medically uninsured population...Patients can be seen for...work physicals, blood pressure monitoring and referrals to specialists. Lab work is available for discounted fees.

….powerful new painkiller... questions are emerging about how the drug is being sold, and to whom…FDA..should be prescribed only by oncologists and pain specialists… But just 1 percent of prescriptions are written by oncologists,.. half of the prescriptions were written by pain specialists, and a wide range of doctors prescribed the rest,…

Sam's Club is extending an invitation to both members and non-members on July 11 with a free health screening in those locations with a pharmacy...The screenings are valued at $150 and include tests for blood pressure, total cholesterol, HDL, risk ratio, glucose and body mass index.

In this podcast...Blake Toney, PharmD, MBA, tackles the subject of personalized medicine and pharmacogenomics

Novartis plans to test a novel pricing model with some customers when it launches…new heart failure drug Entresto,…system under which they would get the drug at a discount but then pay Novartis more if, …. it successfully reduces the need for costly hospital visits.

Retailers can expect their labor costs to rise under a new proposal from the Obama administration… food service managers, first-line servers of food preparation and first-line supervisors of retail store workers are…to be affected by the rule…”the law of unintended consequences at a time when the economy and those struggling the most can least afford it”..

….growing refrain among those who pay for healthcare services that they want new products to deliver more value…prescription drugs, this is usually interpreted to mean medicines that provide more benefit, at lower costs per increment of clinical advantage...Drug companies can rarely make claims around the value of their medicines

While big data, electronic health records and patient engagement tools are seen as the big solutions to improving healthcare, there are more modest goals clinicians eye to provide better care,…Using good data, instead of just big data…tools need to be used not just for documentation and billing, but also to help clinicians learn