Friday, July 22, 2016

Talon Compounding Pharmacy Issues Recall The company voluntarily recalls all lots of lyophilized HCG and sermorelin. Jul 22, 2016 By Pharmaceutical Technology Editors

Talon Compounding Pharmacy Issues Recall
Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine - 5 hours ago
Tricare drops UnitedHealthcare from new contracts worth $58 billion 
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded multiyear contracts worth $58 billion to Humana and Centene Corp. to manage Tricare, surprisingly booting incumbent health insurer UnitedHealthcare in the process.  READ MORE

FDA rejects Sandoz's Neulasta copy, giving Amgen a break from the biosim onslaught

Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Amgen’s aging superstars have been under assault lately by Novartis’ Sandoz unit and its biosimilars ambitions. But the Big Biotech scored a break at the hands of regulators: The FDA rebuffed Sandoz's biosim version of Amgen's big-selling Neulasta, Novartis disclosed Tuesday.

Doc Accused Of Bribing Sen. Wants $2M Put In Fees Trust By Nathan Hale--Dr. Salomon Melgen, who is accused of falsely diagnosing patients with serious eye conditions and overbilling Medicare for the macular degeneration drug Lucentis,...

07/22/2016 01:04 PM EDT

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers not to purchase or use Xcelerated Weight Loss Turbo Charge, a product promoted and sold for weight loss on various websites, includingwww.xceleratedweightloss.com, and possibly in some retail stores.
07/22/2016 01:04 PM EDT

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers not to purchase or use Xcelerated Weight Loss Charged Up, a product promoted and sold for weight loss on various websites, includingwww.xceleratedweightloss.com, and possibly in some retail stores.
07/22/2016 01:04 PM EDT

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers not to purchase or use Xcelerated Weight Loss Ultra Max, a product promoted and sold for weight loss on various websites, includingwww.xceleratedweightloss.com, and possibly in some retail stores.

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Sharapova Tops Forbes Russian Rich List Despite Doping Scandal

The Moscow Times (registration)-18 hours ago
Tennis star Maria Sharapova, the world's richest sportswoman, has been named as Russia's highest-earning celebrity for the fourth consecutive year by the ...

How Russia Got Away With Doping, Until It Didn't

Newsweek-11 hours ago
If you have read the headline “Russian Doping Scandal” some time in the past month with the same wary eyes that gaze upon the unopened copy of The ...

QuVa Pharma acquires facility in NJ, plans to hire 100 new workers

NJBIZ-9 hours ago
The Sugar Land, Texas-based sterile compounding pharmacy services company said in a news release it currently operates two manufacturing facilities in ..