Sunday, December 24, 2017

Council approves model agreement for compounding and ...

https://pharmacists.ab.ca/.../council-approves-model-agreement-compounding-and-re...
19 hours ago - Council has approved a model agreement required by Alberta-based pharmacies holding a Compounding and Repackaging Licence that compound or repackage drugs for pharmacies located in Saskatchewan. This model agreement is reasonably consistent with that previously provided when serving community ...

Head to Head Review: Imprimis Pharmaceuticals (IMMY) versus Its Competitors
Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Imprimis) is engaged in the development, production and dispensing of compounded pharmaceuticals. The Company operates through the business of developing drug therapies and providing such therapies through sterile and non-sterile pharmaceutical compounding ...

Friday, December 22, 2017

16 New Tennessee Laws For 2018

Patch.com-15 hours ago
Prescription drugs: The Board of Pharmacy is authorized to create a voluntary prescription drug donation program, allowing people to donate prescription drugs and supplies. The drugs must be in their original sealed, tamper-evident packaging and must be inspected before they are dispensed by a licensed 

Kmart pays $35.3M to settle hard-fought whistleblower case alleging ...

Markets Insider-39 minutes ago
The "qui tam" (whistleblower) case – filed in 2008 by Phillips & Cohen on behalf of former Kmart pharmacist James Garbe – alleged that from 2004 to 2016 Kmart charged Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare as well as private insurers more for generic prescription drugs than it charged customers who paid cash. Pharmacies are ...

Ga. doctor prescribed weight-loss drug to patients she never saw

MyAJC-9 hours ago
In one particularly notable case, a Miami pharmacist received a nine-year prison sentence after orchestrating a scheme in which doctors wrote prescriptions for phentermine based on the answers to brief questionnaires submitted online. One of those who obtained the drug, a 46-year-old Texas woman, died of an overdose.

When it came to launching legal battles, Apotex founder Barry ...

Toronto Star-9 hours ago
Tom McAnulty, a pharmacist who formerly worked in the brand-name pharmaceutical industry, said that brand-name companies “detested” Sherman's litigiousness. “Barry was one of the most aggressive,” McAnulty said. “Apotex, they would challenge all sorts of rulings by the government.” But the pair of them personally got ..

Falls Drug pharmacist pleads guilty to one count, sentenced to ...

Rexburg Standard Journal-9 hours ago
According to Fica, the federal government charged Allen after it alleged he knowingly gave the painkiller Tramadol to an individual without a perscription on March 12, 2016, at his pharmacy, Falls Drug and Hardware, located at 23 N. Bridge St. in St. Anthony. The individual in question was an undercover informant.

Herpes trial on Americans without FDA oversight gets little response ...

Philly.com-7 hours ago
Compounding the problem, the U.S. is the only developed nation that does not guarantee care for those injured in trials, experts said. “In cases like these, in which subjects are claiming harm from a cuckoo experiment, the system is set up to punish the institution rather than give redress to the subject,” said NYU's Caplan.

The opioid epidemic has now reached black America

Dangerous Fake Opioids A Concern For Law Enforcement

www.localmemphis.com-11 hours ago
Prosecution can get challenging since the fakes are not exactly illegal, compoundingon the already, far-reaching opioid epidemic. "The enforcement piece of that, how do we stop these people and hold them accountable? It's a moving targ