Maine pharmacy board votes to raise age to buy overdose antidote

Bangor Daily News-7 hours ago

Paul LePage, after the Board of Pharmacy voted Thursday morning to raise the age limit to buy the drug from 18 to 21. The board made the decision Thursday as part of an effort to make the drug available without a doctor's prescription. Democrats have criticized both the board and LePage for failing to move forward on ...

Pharmacy board raises age for those allowed to buy lifesaving ...
Press Herald-7 hours ago

State Pharmacy Board Changes Age Limit For Buying Naloxone ...
WABI-3 hours ago

Maine pharmacy board lifts age limit for naloxone without Rx
WGME-3 hours ago

Naloxone expansion rules to go before Maine pharmacy board
News & Observer-16 hours ago

Drug-insurance trims too deep, Arkansas pharmacies say

Arkansas Online-11 hours ago

They spoke at a meeting of the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace Oversight Subcommittee before an overflow audience of pharmacists, pharmacy students and others at the Multi-Agency Complex near the state Capitol. Cissy Clark, owner of Clark's Family Pharmacy in Earle, said about 22 percent of the prescriptions ...

Pharmacists: New Reimbursement Rates for Drugs Unsustainable
Arkansas Business Online-8 hours ago

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Term Sheet -- Thursday, February 1

Fortune-7 hours ago

Caffeine, a social broadcasting platform, raised $46 million in funding across two rounds. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners. • QuVa Pharma, a Sugar Land, Texas-based platform for sterile compounding pharmacyservices, raised up to $40 million in debt and equity funding. The funding includes ...

Execution bills advanced by South Carolina Senate Corrections ...

Greenville News-2 hours ago

So-called shield laws are used in 15 states, but opponents have argued states are now relying on inadequately vetted means, including new execution drugs or mixtures often made by compounding pharmacies, and they say those have helped lead to executions that have been botched, with witnesses reporting inmates ..

Pleasantville guidance counselor pleads guilty in federal health ...

Press of Atlantic City-5 hours ago

According to federal court documents, this drug ring targeted the state's health benefits plan by submitting fraudulent prescriptions for unneeded compoundeddrugs, which ... In exchange for prescriptions, recruiters and doctors would receive kickbacks from an out-of-state compounding pharmacy and pay co-conspirators, ...

Man Must Pay $3.5M in Restitution for Role in Compounding Drug Scheme

Man Must Pay $3.5M in Restitution for Role in Drug Scheme

U.S. News & World Report-23 minutes ago

Man Must Pay $3.5M in Restitution for Role in Drug Scheme. A high school guidance counselor must pay nearly $3.5 million in restitution for his role in a ring that defrauded the state's health benefits plan and other insurers by submitting prescriptions for unnecessary compounded drugs. Feb. 1, 2018, at 4:07 p.m.. Man Must ...

Lawyers claim last 2 Texas executions botched by old drugs - and ...

Chron.com-1 hour ago

"It looks like Texas might have caused a botched execution by using substandard compounded drugs that they knew had passed their original beyond use date," said Maya Foa, an expert who works with pharmaceutical companies on protecting medicines from misuse in executions. "They have systematically flouted the ...

Texas to execute third prisoner this year amid reports of botched ...
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Gottlieb Lays Out Risk-Based Approach For Compounding GMPs ...

Inside Health Policy-3 hours ago

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told legislators Tuesday (Jan. 30) that FDA will take a risk-based approach to both the yet-to-be-finalized 503B-lite category of compounders and the new model agreement between states and FDA on oversight of compounders that ship products out of state. Gottlieb emphasized that FDA ...

Carter Alleges FDA Guidance Improperly Drives Compounding ...

Inside Health Policy-3 hours ago

FDA came under fire from Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) Tuesday (Jan. 30) for what he alleges is the agency's use of guidance documents as the basis for compounding enforcement actions. Carter's concerns were buoyed by a new policy from the Department of Justice which bars use of guidance to create binding standards, ...

Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on ongoing efforts to mitigate impact of saline shortages during this flu season

	As flu activity remains widespread across the U.S., the FDA continues to monitor this situation closely and in coordination with our colleagues at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We’re continuing to take steps to help ensure that people with the flu have access to critical medical products, including antivirals, saline and other supportive care drugs and devices. Continue reading.