Question of the Day February 2, 2018 Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) alleges is the agency's use of guidance documents as the basis for compounding enforcement actions. What will be the results in criminal and/or civil actions if FDA guidance is not used? What will be the results for victims? What will be the results for compounders? Could DOJ bring more prosecutions using strictly the statutes with no guidance or warning to compounders? For example, any compounder who makes inordinate amounts of office use compounds be prosecuted for violating the statute without any definition from DOJ or the FDA as to what inordinate amount means and a jury making this determination? Why or why not?

EDITORIAL: Justice eludes victims in compounding scandal

EDITORIAL: Justice eludes victims in compounding scandal

Lowell Sun-2 hours ago

Where's the justice? That's the question those innocent victims of the New England Compounding Center tragedy want to know. Another sentencing chapter in the deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed nearly 80 people and sickened 10 times that many unfolded in a Boston federal court Wednesday.

Pharmacist in meningitis outbreak gets 8 years in prison
KRQE News 13-2 hours ago

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New compounding guidelines now in effect

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-15 hours ago

A revised guidance titled 'Compounding of sterile injectable medicines', has been incorporated into the Board's Guidelines on compounding of medicines. It replaces the previously postponed section 'Expiry of compounded parenteral medicines'. The Pharmacy Board of Australia published the guidance on 1 August 2017 ...

Must Read!! MICHAEL V. KELLY, II, M.D., COMPOUNDING PLUS LLC D/B/A DIAMOND PHARMACY, TAMARA MITCHELL, JOYCE JAMES, R.PH., CHRISTIAN SCHWALM, AND DIAMOND PHARMACY, LLC, Appellants v. RICHARD FORD AND RAQUEL GONZALES, AS WRONGFUL-DEATH BENEFICIARIES OF DESIREE FORD, DECEASED, Appellees NO. 14-17-00180-CV NO. 14-17-00226-CV NO. 14-17-00497-CV State of Texas in the Fourteenth Court of Appeals January 30, 2018 On Appeal from the 164th District Court Harris County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. 2016-09792 OPINION

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Four things the Pharmacy Board wants you to know about ...

Pharmacy News-18 hours ago

Some pharmacists are risking disciplinary action because they are not complying with rules for dispensing without a prescription, says the Pharmacy Board. It could be that some are confused by legal provisions for emergency supply, the board writes in its latest newsletter. “By not complying with the applicable legal ...

Long-dreaded Amazon.com threat to drug middlemen draws close

The Star Online-12 hours ago

The Health Transformation Alliance, a group of 46 large employers launched two years ago to fix the health-care system, negotiated better drug contracts with CVS Health Corp and UnitedHealth Group Inc's OptumRx, two of the largest pharmacy-benefits managers. It says the new contracts should save its members who ...

Perspectives: Health Care Innovation Would Be Amazon's 'Toughest ...
Kaiser Health News-7 hours ago

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How Pharma is targeting states that try to rein in drug prices

Philly.com-6 hours ago

First in line was Pete Martinez, PhRMA's top Louisiana operative. “I've had this volume” of special-interest pressure “but not the speed,” said Mills, a small-pharmacyowner from St. Martin Parish who said he sees the rising price of pills firsthand. Mills recalled phone calls from “top government affairs people” at Pfizer, “telling .

Texas Court Tosses Wrongful Death Case Against Pharmacy

Law360-20 hours ago

Law360, New York (January 31, 2018, 8:26 PM EST) -- A Texas state appeals court Tuesday tossed a wrongful death suit alleging a young woman found dead in her bathtub four days after using a compound prescription lotion would have survived had the doctor never prescribed it, finding the lower court erred in accepting ...

Pharmacists receive scripts for 'hundreds' of addictive pain pills

The Sydney Morning Herald-15 hours ago

One pharmacy has received a prescription for more than 2000 addictive painkiller tablets and many others across the country have seen orders for hundreds in the past few days. Pharmacists say it's a trend which appears to undermine Australia's new ban on over-the-counter codeine that came into effect on Thursday.

Drug firms shipped 20.8M pills to Williamson

Williamson Daily News-16 hours ago

Over the past decade, out-of-state drug companies shipped 20.8 million prescription painkillers to two pharmacies four blocks apart in a Southern West Virginia ... Between 2006 and 2016, drug wholesalers shipped 10.2 million hydrocodone pills and 10.6 million oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy and Hurley Drug in ...

A town of 3200 was flooded with nearly 21 million pain pills as the ...
In-Depth-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette-13 hours ago

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