Hospira makes progress on plant problems, reports improved financials

In the past, Hospira ($HSP) competitors have been able to take advantage of the drugmaker's absence from a market because of its plant problems, filling the void and their pockets as well, at Hospira's expense. More recently it has been Hospira's chance to live large off of the quality issues of others. The company's improved Q1 earnings were, in part, due to "off contract" prices.
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Florida Board of Pharmacy Board Conference Call Meeting Today, May 1, 2014 to discuss rule 1. Rule 64B16-27.700

May 1, 2014 Board Conference Call
Meeting Location:Telephone Conference Call

Meet Me #:
(888) 670-3525

Participation Code:
513-489-6685
4042 Bald Cypress Way
Tallahassee, FL 32399

Meeting Materials
FAR Notice (PDF) | Agenda (PDF)

 

Must Read: Consent Agreement Arizonia Board of Pharmacy and CBS Chem, Ltd. transactions involving Diamondback, Speciality Pharmacy Cedar Park, Texas, etc.

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14-0005 CONSENT AGREEMENT

NABP has issued a report stressing that illegal online drug sellers are the most frequent conduits of counterfeit drugs and pose a continued threat to global public health.

As detailed in the Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program Progress Report for State and Federal Regulators: April 2014 (PDF), most of these rogue Internet drug outlets sell prescription drug products directly to consumers without requiring a valid prescription.

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The Washington Post For more states, execution means improvisation as drug supplies dwindle

By Brady Dennis and Lena H. Sun, E-mail the writers

Oklahoma’s bungled execution of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett on Tuesday was, in some ways, a medical experiment gone wrong.
In recent years, as pharmaceutical companies have halted sales of drugs used in executions, as legal challenges have mounted and medical groups have vowed to ostracize doctors who participate in sanctioned killings, states have found themselves winging it when it comes to carrying out lethal injections.
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Texas 'Has No Plans' to Use Drug From Botched Oklahoma Execution

By Nathan Bernier

Update: After Tuesday night's botched execution in Oklahoma, Texas corrections officials say they have no plans to use midazolam in future executions. Midazolam was the first component of a three-drug cocktail administered to death row inmate Clayton Lockett yesterday. Read more about the execution here.
As KUT first reported in February, the state has supplies of midazolam on hand. But the Texas Department of Criminal Justice says in a statement that it "has no plans to change our procedures. Texas does not use the same drugs as Oklahoma as we use a single lethal dose of pentobarbital and we have done so since 2012.”

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Botched Execution Could Renew 'Cruel' Challenges

by The Associated Press

May 01, 2014 6:03 AM ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate is certain to fire up the debate over what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment — the phrase written into the U.S. Constitution and defined by the courts, piece by piece, over two centuries.
Convicted killer Clayton Lockett, 38, began writhing, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow Tuesday evening after he was supposedly rendered unconscious by the first of three drugs in the state's new lethal injection combination.
The execution was halted, and Lockett died of a heart attack about a half-hour later, authorities said.
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IACP Compounders on Capitol Hill Event advertises an exclusive opportunity to "hob-nob" with the powerful movers and shakers of Washington D.C.; The COMP PAC fundraising dinner is hosting U.S. House of Representative Morgan Griffith

On Monday, May 19, the COMP PAC Dinner and Fundraiser is an exclusive opportunity to hob-nob with the powerful movers and shakers of Washington, D.C. The COMP PAC will host the Honorable Morgan Griffith, U.S. House of Representatives (R, VA-09) as the keynote speaker for the COMP PAC Fundraising Dinner.

 

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Compounders on Capitol Hill - International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists May 17-20, 2014 Registration Information

Compounders on Capitol Hill - International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists

NABP Comments on FDA-State Inter-Governement Meeting on the Federal Compounding Law

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