CVM Updates FDA Announces Pending Withdrawal of Approval of Nitarsone

CVM Updates FDA Announces Pending Withdrawal of Approval of Nitarsone

Question of the Day April 1, 2015 How will and do the pharmacy laws and regulations need to change for the practice of telemedicine?

Colorado Passes “Full Parity” Telemedicine Law, Although Some Gaps Remain-like in Pharmacy law

1. Colorado Passes “Full Parity” Telemedicine Law, Although Some ...

   JD Supra (press release)-22 hours ago

   Likewise, the Colorado Pharmacy Board Rule 3.00.21 prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing prescriptions to patients that the pharmacist knew or should have ...

Superdrug is first retailer in the world to sell DNA testing kit in store

Superdrug is first retailer in the world to sell DNA testing kit in store

The Pharmaceutical Journal-Mar 31, 2015

Marketing material and patient information is being displayed next to the product and customer education videos are available on the Superdrug pharmacy ...

Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) Program Reports $3.3 Billion in Recoveries

Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) Program Reports $3.3 Billion in Recoveries

According to the FY 2014 HCFAC program report, more than $3.3 billion was recovered in FY 2014 as a result of the government’s health care fraud judgments and settlements, including $2.3 billion won or negotiated by the federal government in FY 2014. Since the HCFAC program began in 1997, it has returned more than $27.8 billion to the Medicare Trust Funds. In FY 2014, the Department of Justice (DOJ) opened 924 new criminal health care fraud investigations, with criminal charges filed in 496 cases and 734 defendants convicted of health care fraud-related crimes. The report also notes that the Federal Bureau of Investigation efforts led to “the dismantlement of the criminal hierarchy of more than 142 health care fraud criminal enterprises.” With regard to civil cases, DOJ opened 782 new civil health care fraud investigations and had 957 civil health care fraud cases pending at the end of the year.

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FDA To Hold Public Hearing On Homeopathy Products

FDA To Hold Public Hearing On Homeopathy Products

Forbes-50 minutes ago

Even my alma mater, the former Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, gave a homeopathic entrepreneur an honorary doctor of science degree in 2009, much to ...

$2.1 Million Grant Targets Antibiotic Resistance

$2.1 Million Grant Targets Antibiotic Resistance

University of Texas at Austin News-21 hours ago

... Texas at Austin's College of Pharmacy, a four-year $2.1 million grant to develop small-molecules that counter antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria.

Drug importation not as dangerous as unaffordable medicine

Drug importation not as dangerous as unaffordable medicine

The Hill (blog)-2 hours ago

When Americans order prescriptions from international online pharmacies, they don't have to do so in a vacuum; there are independent entities to help verify

Memo: Va. Beach, employees overpaid $871K for meds

Memo: Va. Beach, employees overpaid $871K for meds

The Virginian-Pilot-11 hours ago

The city and its employees overpaid their pharmacy benefits by nearly $871,000 last year and will be reimbursed, according to a memo provided in March to

Pharmacists cannot fear the law Roger King wrote to say that law reform, including decriminalising dispensing errors, will not change the way pharmacists work (The Pharmaceutical Journal 2015;294:278).

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