Oklahoma Death Row Inmate on New Nitrogen Gas Execution ...

Daily Beast-17 hours ago

Officials with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office have shad trouble locating the preferred drugs used until now in its lethal injections. The companies and compounding pharmacies that manufacture those drugs have largely halted providing them for capital punishment, 

Attorney to file motion for new trial in multi-million dollar pharmacy ...

WBRC FOX6 News - WBRC.com-2 hours ago

... Diaz took part in a scheme to defraud TRICARE by “prescribing medically unnecessary compoundedmedications, some of which included Ketamine, a controlled substance, to individuals without first examining the individuals for the purpose of having a Hattiesburg-based compounding pharmacy dispense the medically ...

FDA warns about rogue online pharmacies

ABC2 News-6 hours ago

“The pharmacist can fully evaluate every single medication you're on, look at the side effects, check more thoroughly for the drug interactions and it gives you a better picture of someone's overall health and gives you a better way to help manage their disease state,” Vranek said. You can also save money through your ...

Techs to lose pharmacist supervision requirement

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-21 hours ago

The UK announcement comes as pharmacists in Australia debate whether or not the profession has handed over too much of the pharmacist role to non-pharmacists. In 2016, the UK's GPhC proposed that trainee technicians could be supervised by other technicians, instead of a pharmacist. It said that in environments ..

NO lawmaker seeks to end gag order on pharmacists about "claw ...

FOX 8 News WVUE-TV-5 hours ago

"There are some groups that contract with pharmacies who regulate medications on behalf of insurance companies, and it's been found nationally that woven into these contracts are essentially these gag orders that prevent a pharmacist that if he knows that a patient is going to purchase some medication and that it would ...

Kansas pharmacist helps get $20M in donated medication

The Spokesman-Review-11 hours ago

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – A staff pharmacist in Kansas helped spur a change in state law that has led to $20 million in donations of unused prescription medications to low-income and uninsured residents. The Kansas City Star reports that Tim Reel looked on last week at the Duchesne Clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, as leaders ...

Pharmacy startup Blink Health just filed a $250 million lawsuit against a company it claims is an 'unlawful copycat scheme' Lydia Ramsey Mar 14, 2018, 2:29 PM ET

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Theranos founder charged with fraud, agreed to settle civil charges

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2 hours ago · Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been charged with fraud. The company sold its blood tests in Arizona. She agreed t

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2 hours ago · Among the findings: in some cases, Theranos had to send the blood it had collected from patients out to traditional labs in order t

Right to Try legislation fails to pass House

Bucks County Courier Times-13 hours ago

Gov. Tom Wolf signed a state Right to Try bill in October, joining 37 other states in passing similar legislation. Without federal legislation, however, the state laws cannot go into effect. Detractors of the bill, including Rep. Frank Pallone, D-6, of New Jersey, said the bill provides false hope to patients and their families, and that ...

'Right-to-try' experimental drug bill backed by US Rep. Brian ...
Allentown Morning Call-14 hours ago

View allBig patient groups urge House to defeat 'right to try' bill allowing ...

Washington Post-22 hours ago

Dozens of patient groups urged the House to reject “right to try” legislation — scheduled for a vote Tuesday — designed to allow seriously ill patients to largely bypass the Food and Drug Administration to get access to experimental treatments. More than 75 organizations, including the American Cancer Society Cancer ...

“Right-to-try,” the controversial plan to help the terminally ill that just ...
Vox-15 hours ago

House fails to pass 'right to try' bill amid Dem objections
The Hill-16 hours ago

'Right-to-try' bill rejected by House, in major blow to GOP efforts
STAT-15 hours ago

House rejects GOP bill easing use of unproven drugs
International-RochesterFirst-15 hours ago

House Rejects Bill to Give Patients a 'Right to Try' Experimental Drugs
In-Depth-New York Times-14 hours ago

Doctor convicted in pharmacy scheme to remain in jail until sentencing

Hattiesburg American-19 hours ago

Doctor convicted in pharmacy scheme to remain in jail until sentencing. Lici Beveridge, Breaking News Reporter Published 2:03 p.m. CT March 13, 2018 | Updated 4:31 p.m. CT March 13, 2018. play. CLOSE. Dr. Albert Diaz leaves William M. Colmer Federal Courthouse with his family and an employee after the defense ...

Fort Smith lawmaker backs proposed pharmacy legislation

Times Record-9 hours ago

Justin Boyd, R-Fort Smith, and a practicing pharmacist in Crawford County, said the bill, which specifically focuses on monitoring prescription benefit managers in the state, will create transparency in the state drug market. The legislation is being voted upon in a special session from Tuesday to Thursday in Little Rock.

Committee approves bill to regulate pharmacy benefit managers ...

Arkansas Times-16 hours ago

On Tuesday morning, a legislative committee overwhelmingly approved a bill that would allow the Arkansas Insurance Department to regulate pharmacy benefit managers and require PBMs to obtain licenses to do business in the state. House Bill 1010 now heads to the full House of Representatives on Wednesday while a ..

Arkansas legislature moves forward to create oversight on ...

THV 11-15 hours ago

Arkansas is a step closer to becoming the first state to require the middleman in the pharmacy world to receive a license to conduct business in the state. This comes as pharmacists claim they aren't getting fair reimbursement rates. Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) work between the pharmacy and your insurance ...

Lawmakers advance regulation of pharmacy managers
Baxter Bulletin-12 hours ago

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Pharmacy Owners, Managers Turning to Outside Help to Boost Profits

Pharmacy Times-20 minutes ago

Like most community pharmacies, one problem the Logans face is dwindling margins from third-party payers. Richard said that a few years ago they received some help from Monty Rogers, RPh, founder of Pharm Assess. He credits this consulting firm with helping them evaluate, negotiate, and profitably service 2 340B ...

Judge leaves Mississippi physician jailed until sentencing

Judge leaves Mississippi physician jailed until sentencing

WTVA-11 hours ago

The fraud involving Diaz is one prong in a larger investigation into compoundingpharmacies. Prosecutors have alleged that three Mississippi pharmacies alone bilked $400 million from insurers. The Sun Herald reports about 40 family and supporters filled the federal courtroom for Diaz's hearing, with 60 more awaiting .

Pharmacist, Assistant Sent to Prison for Compounding Scheme

Pharmacist, Assistant Sent to Prison for Compounding Scheme

WorkCompCentral-7 hours ago

A Florida pharmacist was sentenced to 17 years in prison, and his assistant to more than 15 years, for paying kickbacks to health care providers who prescribed compounded drugs in a scheme that defrauded government health care programs of $30 million, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of ..

BIG CHANGES: New regulations, changes to state rules are keeping pharmacies on their toes Idaho State Journal · 10 hours ago

BIG CHANGES: New regulations, changes to state rules are keeping pharmacies on their toes

Idaho State Journal · 10 hours ago

Court Says Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt Not Entitled To Missouri ...

KCUR-3 hours ago

Last month, a BuzzFeed News investigation uncovered the secret supplier of Missouri's lethal injection drugs – a compounding pharmacy outside St. Louis called Foundation Care. The pharmacy, which was acquired last year by a subsidiary of St. Louis-based health insurer Centene, has been repeatedly cited by the Food ...

Injectable opioids scarce in hospitals and hospices despite the U.S. being awash in pills

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Amid the opioid crisis in the U.S., physicians and hospital pharmacists are having increasing difficulty finding injectable painkillers.

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Nutritional Engineering Inc

San Francisco District Office

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MedPark Pharmacy, LLC

New Jersey District Office

CGMP/Drug Products/Adulterated

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03/05/2018

Quali Controle & Qual-Controle-C.E.Bac

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

CGMP/Finished Pharmaceuticals/Adulterated

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03/09/2018

Carol Bond Health Foods

Dallas District Office

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State of Arkansas to fight for oversight on Pharmacy Benefits ...

THV 11-14 hours ago

Governor Hutchinson called for a Special Legislative Session to begin March 13 at 9:00 a.m. that includes discussion over Pharmacy Benefits Managers. Pharmacists have been fighting PBMs since January, claiming they're not getting fair reimbursement rates, causing them to lose money by filing prescriptions, forcing .

Key Democrat comes out against 'right to try' bill

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/key-democrat-comes-out-against-right-to-try-bill/ar-BBK8H20?li=AA5a8k&ocid=spartandhp

March 2018 Issue of The Script - California State Board of Pharmacy

www.pharmacy.ca.gov/publications/18_mar_script.pdf

9 hours ago - visit the Board of Pharmacy website here. AB 40 (Santiago) CURES Database: Health Information Technology. System. (Chapter 607, Statutes of 2017). This law requires the California. Department of Justice to make CURES available to pharmacists and health care practitioners by Oct. 1, 2018, through either the CURES ...

'Everyone is just heartbroken,' nurse says after a beloved Coast ...

The Sun Herald-17 hours ago

Those who know Diaz do not believe he intended to do anything wrong when he agreed to write prescriptions for compounded drugs that would go to veterans. They think he was manipulated. He knew and trusted one of his co-defendants, Jay Schaar, Diaz's drug representative for years. Schaar asked him to write the .

Liquidation Looming For Cantrell Drug Co.

Liquidation Looming For Cantrell Drug Co.

Arkansas Business Online-14 hours ago

The FDA's March 1 news release also said that federal regulators were seeking a preliminary injunction to stop Cantrell's production and distribution of compounded drugs. The fallout from the news release has been “devastating” to the company, James L. McCarley Jr., the CEO of Cantrell Drug, testified Wednesday during ...

Wasting away: How health systems are advancing the battle against low-value care By Maria Castellucci | March 10, 2018

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Dozens of pharmacy kiosks planned in Arizona

ABC15 Arizona-5 hours ago

You scan your barcode, enter a pin number for security that will be verified every time, and you even get the option to speak with a pharmacist using video chat. That pharmacist also verifies each bottle of pills, getting a snapshot from the kiosk before it's released. Bayless Integrated Health Center in Mesa is among the first to

New Mexico Pharmacists to Fill Birth Control Prescriptions

Public News Service-10 hours ago

The New Mexico Board of Pharmacy approved the new rule last year allowing pharmacists who complete nine hours of training to provide the service. ... She noted that women will need to complete a health history questionnaire and have their blood pressure taken at the pharmacy before a pharmacist can determine which ...

Do pharmacy owners really have all the power?

Pharmacy News-13 hours ago

Many pharmacists believe they are underpaid and that owners have all the power, according to an Australian study. And while pharmacists are glad to have jobs, they fear these will be harder to find in the future. The study is based on the views of 306 experienced pharmacists (83%) and interns, who shared their opinions ...

ACLU calls for DEA investigation into how Nebraska got execution drugs

Nebraska Is Illegally Obtaining and Storing Execution Drugs in ...

ACLU (blog)-3 hours ago

In its dissembling, the NSP applied for a DEA importer registration in 2015, 2016, and 2017 — each time falsely claiming to be licensed in Nebraska to handle drugs by referencing a state pharmacy license number not assigned to the prison. The license number listed was registered to a pharmacy operated by the ...

ACLU calls for DEA investigation into how Nebraska got execution ...
Omaha World-Herald-6 hours ago

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Stuck in the Middle: Regulating Pharmacy Benefit Managers

Arkansas Business Online-5 hours ago

A special legislative session starting Tuesday is expected to result in deep-red Arkansas becoming the first state to license and regulate pharmacy benefit managers. PBMs say they help hold down drug costs by negotiating with manufacturers on behalf of insurance companies and by providing pharmacists with instant ...

The first target on drug prices: pharmacy benefit managers

Axios-8 hours ago

After months of circular finger-pointing over high drug prices, lawmakers, administration officials and parts of the health care industry seem to have settled on an initial target: pharmacy benefit managers, the middlemen that health insurers and employers hire to negotiate with drug companies. Yes, but: There are savings to ...

A costly PBM trick: set lower copays for expensive brand-name ...
STAT-9 hours ago

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How corner drugstores are fighting back against Amazon

The Week Magazine-7 hours ago

The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) points out that independent pharmacies "provide a variety of niche services, often unavailable elsewhere." For instance, they frequently offer customers a service called compounding, or personalized prescriptions. Since these types of medications aren't sold ...

Compounders Funding PAC That Donated to Wolf

WorkCompCentral-10 hours ago

A political action committee that represents compounding pharmacies was one of the biggest contributors to Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's re-election campaign, ... Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano, a claimants' attorney firm that owns the Workers First Pharmacy, gave $87,000 to the PAC. Another $13,400 was donated by its 

New Mexico Board of Pharmacy Law Update March 20, 2018

3/20/2018 - NMBOP Pharmacy Law Update - Espanola

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Doctor concerned with new rules which allow alternative remedies ...

TVNZ-6 hours ago

Doctor concerned with new rules which allow alternative remedies to be sold next to scientifically-proven medicines in pharmacies. 11:40am. share. Source: 1 NEWS. The New Zealand Medical Association is angry that the Pharmacy Council will allow pharmacies greater freedom to sell alternative products.

'It lends them a legitimacy' – doctor says changing pharmacy rules to allow homeopathic products misleads people

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/lends-them-legitimacy-doctor-says-changing-pharmacy-rules-allow-homeopathic-products-misleads-people

FDA's Imodium crackdown has patients dismayed

STLtoday.com-19 hours ago

It also can be obtained from legitimate Canadian pharmacies for $14 to $20 per pill. Generic sildenafil has been available in the U.S. at much lower cost. I have been getting sildenafil for $1.24 per pill from a local warehouse-club pharmacy. These 20-mg pills probably are generic Revatio. One pill is equal to 20 mg of Viagra ...

Shreveport businessmen may soon control north Louisiana med marijuana market Nick Wooten, Shreveport Times Published 6:03 a.m. CT March 11, 2018 | Updated 10:43 a.m. CT March 11, 2018

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2018/03/11/shreveport-businessmen-may-soon-control-north-louisiana-med-marijuana-market/404480002/

Rx mixer to pause shipments 2 weeks

Arkansas Online-8 hours ago

Cantrell Drug Co. finalized an agreement Friday that will allow the compoundingpharmacy to resume production but not distribute its products until its Little Rock facility passes a U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspection. The agreement calls for a two-week stay in the legal proceedings involving the company in U.S. .

meningitis-etc: Chin Gets $175,000 Forfeiture Order

meningitis-etc: Chin Gets $175,000 Forfeiture Order: By Walter F. Roche Jr. A federal judge has formally approved a $175,000 forfeiture order against a former pharmacist convicted of playin...

meningitis-etc: FDA Discloses Another Recall

meningitis-etc: FDA Discloses Another Recall: Sagent Pharmaceuticals Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Methylprednisolone Sodium Succinate for Injection, USP, 40mg, 125m...

Five senators And A Big Pharma Trade Association Urge Tech ...

The Inquisitr-7 hours ago

However, according to the EFF, the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies is a big pharma lobby group. Congress is exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests, so it's impossible to know for sure whether this was a coordinated effort between the Senators and the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies, or merely a ...

Arkansas governor: Special session planned next week

KSPR-6 hours ago

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas' governor says he'll call a special session next week for lawmakers to take up pharmacy reimbursement rates, highway funding and other issues. Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Friday he plans to call a special session that will begin Tuesday to take up the issues. Hutchinson says he'll 

Bill to amp up pharmacists' role in opioid fight goes to Senate

Ohio County Monitor-11 hours ago

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky's community pharmacies would play a bigger role in the state's fight against opioid addiction under legislation that has passed the state House. House Bill 246, sponsored by pharmacist and State Rep. Danny Bentley, R-Russell, and Rep. Addia Wuchner, R-Florence, would create a pilot ..

SC legislators know how to protect their own wallets

The Nerve-11 hours ago

One of the bills, co-sponsored by a House member who is a pharmacist and pharmacy owner, would generally require pharmacy benefit managers, which contract with pharmacies to provide certain services on behalf of health insurers, to reimburse pharmacies “within seven business days of payment by a payor.” The other

Records: Drug distributors push back on proposed Ohio rules

Defiance Crescent News-13 hours ago

In this Nov. 2, 2017, photo, Cameron McNamee, Ohio Board of Pharmacy director of policy and communications, discusses a new ad campaign targeting the state's deadly opioid epidemic. In a March 1, 2018 interview in Columbus, Ohio, McNamee said the state is weighing concerns by drug wholesalers about proposed 

Cigna's Express Scripts deal could lead to higher prices

MarketWatch-22 hours ago

Cigna's acquisition of pharmacy-benefits manager Express Scripts Holding Company could be a bum deal for consumers. Cigna CI, +1.16% plans to purchase Express Scripts ESRX, +1.19% for $67 billion, the companies announced Thursday. As the country's largest independent pharmacy-benefits manager, Express ...

Express Scripts goes from proud independent to Cigna conquest
Opinion-STLtoday.com-21 hours ago

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