Thursday, May 31, 2018

Pharmacies to have inspection reports published for the first time

The Pharmaceutical Journal-22 hours ago
The GPhC said The Pharmacy (Premises Standards, Information Obligations, etc.) Order 2016 (Commencement) (England, Wales and Scotland) Order of ..

Are databases a help or a hindrance to community pharmacy services?

Chemist+Druggist-39 minutes ago
After initial teething problems, the team behind PharmOutcomes say the system now underpins many of the services commissioned in community pharmacy.

Minn. attorney general files lawsuit against pharmacy company

WDAY6-13 hours ago
Minnesota's Attorney General Lori Swanson and the state's Board of Pharmacy filed a lawsuit Wednesday, May 30, against a company for pushing doctors to ...

Pharmacist fired for 'clarifying' prescriptions by phone wins bid for...

Pharmacist fired for 'clarifying' prescriptions by phone wins bid for ...

PennLive.com-21 hours ago
pharmacist who was fired for seeking clarifications by phone of confusing prescriptions can't be denied unemployment compensation, a state appeals court .

Santa Maria Novella, The World's Oldest Pharmacy, Is A Best-Kept ...

Forbes-15 hours ago
It's one of the world's oldest pharmacies, which once made treatments for the Black Death. Today, the Florentine company makes award-winning, botanically

FDA Bows to Public Pressure: Compounding Pharmacies Can Continue Making Natural Medicines according to the FDA Bows to Public Pressure According to the Alliance for Natural Health

FDA Bows to Public Pressure: Compounding Pharmacies Can ...

healthimpactnews.com/.../fda-bows-to-public-pressure-compounding-pharmacies-can-...
14 hours ago - Two years ago, the FDA released a draft guidance saying that a compounding pharmacy (a pharmacy that makes customized medicines for individual patients) ...

From the FDA Law Blog

Posted: 31 May 2018 03:18 AM PDT
The American Conference Institute (“ACI”), together with the Council for Responsible Nutrition, are ,,,,,

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

03/29/2018Yoder's Good Health ProductsAtlanta District OfficeUnapproved New Drugs/Dietary Supplements/AdulteratedNot Issued *
05/14/2018Jilin Shulan Synthetic Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.Center for Drug Evaluation and ResearchCGMP/APIs/AdulteratedNot Issued *
05/16/2018Europharma Concepts LimitedCenter for Drug Evaluation and ResearchCGMP/Finished Pharmaceuticals/AdulteratedNot Issued *
05/18/2018Jalco Cosmetics Pty Ltd.Center for Drug Evaluation and ResearchCGMP/Finished Pharmaceuticals/AdulteratedNot Issued *
05/18/2018Performance Nutrition Formulators LLC dba VMI SportsCenter for Food Safety and Applied NutritionCGMP/Manufacturing, Packaging, Labeling, or Holding Operations for Dietary Supplements/AdulteratedNot Issued 

For patients with serious or immediately life-threatening diseases, the FDA remains committed to enhancing access to promising investigational medicines for those unable to access products through clinical trials. This is the mission of our expanded access program. The agency is dedicated to these purposes, and it has been for more than three decades. 


compounding pharmacy in downtown Missoula has received a warning letter, its second in three years, from the U

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

US Tax Overhaul Makes Biotech Players Hungry For Big Deals

Business Facilities Magazine-9 hours ago
U.S. drug approvals hit a 21-year high in 2017, with 46 novel medicines .... Human, plant and animal genomics are the focus of the faculty on campus who came 

New drug targets pain from foot rot in cattle

Canadian Cattlemen-May 23, 2018
Banamine transdermal, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) produced by Merck Animal Health, was released at the end of January. This pour-on ..

Seattle's Progressive Policies Result In Drug-Addicted Sea Life

Liberty Nation-2 hours ago
The city's drug problem has become so severe that even its sea life is becoming hooked on opioids. That's right. Even animals are getting high in the Emerald ...

Preparing for veterinary drug use changes

Farms.com-10 hours ago
“They'll have to purchase (the drugs) through a veterinarian or a pharmacist,” Mark Fynn, manager of quality assurance and animal care programs with Manitoba ...

Antibiotics in Meat Could Be Damaging Our Guts

New York Times-May 25, 2018
The F.D.A. banned the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals last year ... there is another way to combat the problem of antibiotic drugs, which may be ...

FDA Approves Semintra, Animal Drug for the Control of High Blood ...

Pet Age-May 25, 2018
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Semintra (telmisartan oral solution), the first FDA-approved animal drug to control systemic hypertension ..

Animal Health Margins Look Good to Head of $820 Million Fund

Bloomberg-14 hours ago
“We have invested quite heavily in animal drugs,” Smit said. The animal health care industry is less competitive than human health, leading to better margins ...

Warn Patients About Unlisted Hormones in Supplements

Medscape-May 25, 2018
New research is giving us more information about a group of dietary supplementssold for "adrenal support." They claim to enhance metabolism, promote energy .

FDA Warns That Pills And Supplements Do Not Work As Sunscreens

Forbes-May 25, 2018
“Sunsafe Rx is a nutritional supplement that protects your skin and eyes from the sun. Just one capsule per day provides natural, healthy…protection from UV ...

United States: FDA: Food & Dietary Supplements >> Regulatory And ...

Mondaq News Alerts-May 25, 2018
United States: FDA: Food & Dietary Supplements >> Regulatory And Class Action Claims Against "Healthy" And "Natural" Food And Dietary Suppleme

Alibaba injects pharmacy assets into health-care unit in $1.4 billion deal

CNBC-7 hours ago
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will inject some of its online pharmacy business into a listed unit in a deal valued at HK$10.6 billion ($1.35 billion), the firm ...

Monday, May 28, 2018


Deadly Delivery: Opioids By Mail
NPR
Congressional investigators say hundreds of millions of dollars of fentanyl is coming into the U.S. by mail. But lawmakers are finding it hard to stop. Read the full story

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Deadly Delivery: Opioids By Mail
NPR
Congressional investigators say hundreds of millions of dollars of fentanyl is coming into the U.S. by mail. But lawmakers are finding it hard to stop. Read the full story

Shared from Apple News

Friday, May 25, 2018

Pharmacist prescribing claims of pressure relief 'ludicrous', says RACGP

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-18 hours ago
The review will look into a range of issues affecting the pharmacy sector in Queensland, from the ownership rules to pharmacist prescribing. Mainstream media ...

How pharmacists can comply with GDPR

The Pharmaceutical Journal-19 hours ago
While pharmacists and pharmacy owners should already be familiar with the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of patient data, GDPR places existin

Government unlawfully withheld information on community pharmacy ...

The Pharmaceutical Journal-11 hours ago
Lawyers acting for the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiation Committee (PSNC) criticised the government's handling of the introduction of community pharmacy ...

Ask Katie: Veterinary pharmacy woes dvm360-22 hours ago

Ask Katie: Veterinary pharmacy woes

dvm360-22 hours ago
A: I can appreicate the frustration that comes with having another (insert eye roll) competitor in the veterinary pharmacy space. Disclaiming and price matching ...

Declining number of rural pharmacies 'a worrisome trend'

WSU News-13 hours ago
Pharmacies clearly are important to health care in rural communities. Yet nearly 500 rural communities in Washington lost their only retail pharmacy between ..

Pharmacy Chains Sue Allergan Over Restasis 'Anticompetitive Scheme'

Inside Health Policy-7 hours ago
A coalition of the nation's largest pharmacies are suing Allergan over what they alleged is a multiyear anticompetitive scheme to shield the company's dry eye .

Record fentanyl bust in Nebraska finds enough doses to kill an estimated 26 million people CNN

Record fentanyl bust in Nebraska finds enough doses to kill an estimated 26 million people
CNN
The Nebraska State Patrol seized nearly 120 pounds of the drug fentanyl — enough to kill about 26 million people, according to estimates by the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Read the full story

Thursday, May 24, 2018

ASPL: NEGLIGENCE – MEDICAL AND LEGAL Washington State Court of Appeals overturns summary dismissal of legal malpractice case considering Washington’s....

Border Patrol agents' seizure of opioids on the rise, McCaskill report ...

STLtoday.com-May 23, 2018
WASHINGTON • United States Border Patrol Patrol agents seized more than 3,500 pounds of opioids between 2013 and 2017, mostly near the southern border ..

Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids

CBS News-1 hour ago
As more and more American communities grapple with opioid addiction, the human toll of the epidemic has grown in both scope and severity. And now ...

Deadly Delivery: Opioids By Mail

NPR-13 hours ago
The nation's opioid epidemic has been attributed to many factors, including the over-prescription of painkillers and the availability of cheap synthetic opioids like

Susan Redden: Trump, McCaskill differ on prescription drug remedy

Joplin Globe-May 23, 2018
He said those efforts will include an end to the pharmacist gag rule that “punishes” pharmacists for telling patients how they might save money, and discussed an 

Getting into practice

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-12 hours ago
A recent article I wrote for the AJP on the Rural Health Workforce Strategy budget announcement possibly worsening pharmacist shortages for rural community .

COA upholds suspension of Gibson County doctor's license

Indiana Lawyer-5 hours ago
The Indiana Pharmacy Board asked a DEA investigator to investigate Gray in May 2011 based on their concerns about the prescriptions he was writing, ...

Former patient says doctor who took illegal kickbacks 'took advantage ...

NBC2 News-May 23, 2018
Federal court filings show Frey admitted to taking illegal kickbacks from two companies, including a representative for a pharmacy in Stuart. “I thought, 'this is ...

Should pharmacists be allowed to prescribe antibiotics?

Pharmacy News-20 hours ago
Pharmacists from larger pharmacies were more likely to prefer to treat the patient themselves. Nearly all (95.5%) correctly chose the right antibiotic for acute 

Hospital hit with $50000 fine for improper storage of opioids ...

Nantucket Island Inquirer-11 hours ago
... Lorazepam and Oxycodone/ Acetaminophen on handthan its records indicated; it improperly placed prescription drugs in an unlocked pharmacy refrigerator; ...