- China Jo-Jo Drugstores Becomes the First Hangzhou Pharmacy to Be Launched on Tencent’s WeChat Platform (pharmacychoice.com)
China Jo-Jo Drugstores, Inc.,.. pharmaceutical and health care products through its online and retail pharmacies, announced today that Hangzhou Jiuzhou Grand Pharmacy Chain Co., Ltd… has become the first… to launch stores on Tencent's WeChat platform, China's dominant mobile messaging app and social network with over 500 million active users.
- Five things for pharma marketers to know: Monday, June 22 (mmm-online.com)
- Novartis exec: Pharma culture can be stumbling block to creativity (mmm-online.com)
When it comes to creativity in advertising, pharma is holding itself back in some cases. It's not always regulation or concerns about legal risks. Sometimes, a drugmaker's internal conservative culture is the biggest hurdle to overcome,…
- REMSA’s Nurse Health Line awarded first accreditation (rgj.com)
The International Academies of Emergency Dispatch has awarded accreditation as an Emergency Communication Nurse System Accredited Center of Excellence to Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority’s Nurse Health Line. The Nurse Health Line is the first emergency care nurse system in the world to receive this accreditation from IAED.
- Generic Drugs Should Look Similar to the Drugs They Reference, FDA Says (raps.org)
Food and Drug Administration is recommending drugs made by generic manufacturers closely mimic the physical attributes, including the size, shape and color, of the drugs they reference.
- Changes Ahead for Specialty Pharmacy Patients (specialtypharmacytimes.com)
Ron Lanton …. discusses how the specialty pharmacy landscape will evolve in the coming years.
- GSK sells two vaccines to Pfizer to ease competition concerns (newsdaily.com)
GSK agreed to sell the two older vaccines, which are marketed outside the United States and had combined sales last year of 34 million pounds ($54 million), to meet concerns raised by the European Commission and other antitrust regulators.
- 20 Pharmacy Technician Hacks to Make the Job Easier (pharmacytimes.com)
Given the upcoming changes in the pharmacy tech world, here are the Internet’s best pharmacy technician hacks, some of which are common sense, though others take more ingenuity. These 20 tricks can help techs save time, and potentially, sanity:
- Medical tourism expertise helps Thailand cope with MERS (newsdaily.com)
Thailand’s status as a hub for medical tourism could be helping the country contain the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome,…Tourism accounts for about 10 percent of the Thai economy, and the country is also the top destination in Southeast Asia for patients seeking low-cost, quality healthcare,…..
- Anthem offers $47 billion for Cigna as insurers race for a deal (reuters.com)
...Anthem Inc said on Saturday it had offered $47 billion in cash and stock for smaller rival Cigna Corp, signaling a pick-up in the industry's long-awaited consolidation. The biggest U.S. health insurers are seeking acquisitions to boost membership in government-paid healthcare plans and the employer-based insurance that is Cigna's specialty.