Amazon pharmacy should derail 'ridiculous' Cigna, Express Scripts ...

USA TODAY-15 hours ago

Key to Icahn's argument is his perspective that Amazon's recent entry into the online pharmacy business poses a serious threat to Express Scripts' position as ...

Carl Icahn Knows It's Never Too Late to Derail a Deal
Opinion-Bloomberg-12 hours ago

F]Proposed Rules - US Government Publishing Office

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2018-08-07/pdf/2018-16807.pdf

20 hours ago - 360) requires each registered drug establishment to provide FDA with a current list of alldrugs manufactured, prepared, propagated, compounded, or processed .

Imprimis Pharmaceuticals Announces Second Quarter 2018 Results ...

www.wfmj.com/story/.../imprimis-pharmaceuticals-announces-second-quarter-2018-resu...

19 hours ago - During Q2, after having funded and deconsolidated our first two drug development .... Other than drugs compounded at a registered outsourcing facility, ...

MBP Board Meeting Summary Report: July 2018 | 7/20/2018

​​The Mississippi Board of Pharmacy met on July 19, 2018 to conduct business and hold disciplinary hearings. Please click the following link 

MBP Board Meeting Summary Report: July 2018 to read a synopsis of the items presented or considered by the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy during their July meeting. ​​​​​

MBP Regulation Update | 8/6/2018 ​The following regulations have been amended and became effective July 30, 2018:  ​ARTICLE IV  LICENSE RENEWAL​ AND CONTINUING EDUCATION The amendment increases the number of required annual continuing education hours from ten to fifteen and requires five of those hours to be related to opioid abuse or other addiction related issues. At least two hours of CE must be live CE. (The enforcement of this regulation will begin with the calendar year 2019. All pharmacists will be required to obtain the increased CE during the 2019 calendar year.) ARTICLE VI  PRACTICE OF PHARMACY PERMITS The amendment allows for the delivery of home dialysis solutions to patients without the necessity of the distributor obtaining a pharmacy permit.  ARTICLE XLIII  PMP  The amendment includes mandatory review of the PMP by pharmacists based on certain circumstances prior to dispensing opioids. ARTICLE XLVI  CHARITY PHARMACY REGULATIONS ​The amendment allows retail pharmacies to participate in charitable drug distribution programs that have been approved by the Board. ​ ARTICLE XXXI  COMPOUNDING GUIDELINES The amendment incorporates the provisions from ARTICLE XXVII, STERILE PHARMACEUTICALS into this Article and Article XXVIII will be repealed. The amendment also requires pharmacies who are performing compounding services to obtain a compounding certificate. (The compounding certificate portion of this amendment will not be enforced until the Board develops an application for a compounding certificate. The application will be placed on the Board website after it has been developed and a notice will be sent to all pharmacists.) PROCEDURES FOR PERMANENT CLOSURE OF BUSINESS The amendment cleans up outdated information related to reporting to DEA and other agencies and streamlines the regulation.  COVER PAGE AND GENERAL INFORMATION The amendment cleans up outdated information such as Board address, phone and fax number, etc. ARTICLE XXXV  INSTITUTIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICATION KIT PERMITS The amendment brings the regulation into compliance with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regulations.  ARTICLE XIII  PRESCRIPTIONS TO BE FILED The amendment eases the burden of maintaining a paper copy of all prescriptions by allowing copies of some prescriptions to be maintained electronically.  To review all Mississippi Board of Pharmacy Regulations, Click Here.  ​​​

Federal Register :: Future Format of the National Drug Code; Public ...

https://www.federalregister.gov/a/2018-16807

12 hours ago - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is announcing a ... with a current list of all drugs manufactured, prepared, propagated, compounded, ...

State requirements for compounding pharmacies - Aaahc

https://www.aaahc.org › Home › News & Resources › Health Care Resources

4 hours ago - State requirements for compounding pharmacies. Here is a link to a website providing an overview of issues related to compounding of pharmaceuticals and relevant bills or resolutions introduced across 16 states in 2013.

The USP <797> Compliance Study

797study.criticalpoint.info/

15 hours ago - If you have not yet read the 2017 Compliance study reports, click on the following links to read the stories “What Prevents Excellence in Sterile Compounding?

07/24/2018

Les Produits Chimiques B.G.R., Inc.

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

CGMP/Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API)/Adulterated

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Tainted valsartan has been on the market for 4 years, FDA discovers

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

China’s Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical set off a global recall after it informed global regulators last month that it had discovered the suspected cancer causing impurity N-nitrosodimethylamine in its valsartan API after changing its manufacturing process. 

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Guardian Pharmacy Services

483 Response

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AmerisourceBergen faces another federal subpoena over opioids

Philly.com-9 hours ago

As a distributor, AmerisourceBergen buys drugs from manufacturers and sells them to pharmacies. And it has obligations to report “suspicious orders” of ...

US Attorney's office in Florida subpoenas AmerisourceBergen as part ...
Philadelphia Business Journal-6 hours ago

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Doctor gets 10 years for operating 'pill mill' disguised as wellness center

WSMV Nashville-6 hours ago

A "pill mill" is a term used by investigators to describe a doctor, clinic or pharmacythat is prescribing or dispensing narcotics inappropriately or for non-medical ...

Does importing pharmaceuticals make sense?

Employee Benefit Adviser-9 hours ago

Pharmacy costs are out of control and employers, employees and benefit advisers are demanding creative solutions. One of the recent strategies available to ...

California insurance commissioner urges Department of Justice to ...

MD Linx (press release)-13 hours ago

Insurers would have difficulty using CVS's pharmacy benefit manager, CVS-Caremark. CVS currently provides PBM services to 94 million plan beneficiaries ...

DOJ should block CVS-Aetna merger: Calif. insurance regulator
American Medical Association-5 hours ago

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Hattiesburg dental surgeon pleads guilty for role in multi-million dollar compounding pharmacy scheme

Hattiesburg dental surgeon pleads guilty for role in pharmacy scheme

WDAM-TV-5 hours ago

A Hattiesburg dental surgeon pleaded guilty to conspiracy in federal court for his role in a multi-million dollar pharmacy scheme. Court documents show Brantley 

Auction scheduled today for Family Pharmacy assets

Springfield Business Journal-9 hours ago

Auction scheduled today for Family Pharmacy assets ?Mike BY: Mike Cullinan, Reportermcullinan@sbj.net. Posted 8/3/18. The qualifying bids are being 

Worldwide blood pressure medicine recall expanding

WJBF-TV-8 hours ago

“The FDA expanded the recall to three new manufacturers,” said pharmacist Erick Engel of Raleigh's Wellness and Compounding pharmacy. As a result, he said ...

Kauffman warrant reveals compounding, blood testing fraud ..."In what is described in the warrant as a “pyramid scheme,” the drugs would cost Central Rexall $10 a dose, but they would charge the insurance company about $6,000, then split the profits with a recruiter."

Kauffman warrant reveals compounding, blood testing fraud ...

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...compounding.../article_a1e22483-443b-55c1-b...

5 hours ago - “Effectively you're referring patients to compounding, and if the care is unnecessary, it's fraud,” he said. And as soon as a doctor receives money for referring a patient to medically unnecessary treatment, a kickback, it's what Frankford called a “slam dunk” for prosecutors.

Pa. High Court to Consider Duty to Defend in Alleged Accidental ...

Law.com-6 hours ago

Mutual Benefit Insurance v. Haver, 725 A.2d 743 (Pa. 1999), involved a suit against a pharmacist, Joseph Haver, for selling prescription pain killers and sleeping ...

Oklahoma health board approves new medical marijuana rules

Cherokee Phoenix-1 hour ago

... a ban on the sale of smokable pot and requirements that a pharmacist be in every dispensary and that women of “childbearing age” undergo a pregnancy test.

Oklahoma Board of Health amends Rx pot rules

NewsOK.com-12 hours ago

The new rules eliminated two last-minute amendments, which banned the sale of smokable marijuana and required dispensaries to hire pharmacists

Amerisource CEO Doubts Amazon will be a "Significant Force" in Drug ...

Fortune-8 hours ago

Speaking with Fortune, AmerisourceBergen CEO Steven Collis says he's not worried about Amazon's recent purchase of PillPack, the online pharmacy ...

Express Scripts stock plunges on report that Carl Icahn wants to block ...

WPRO-22 hours ago

Cigna is in the process of buying pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts for $67 billion. Shareholders of both companies are scheduled to vote on ...

Investor Icahn to Oppose Cigna-Express Deal, Fearing Amazon Threat ...
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Kasich signs bill increasing fentanyl-related drug penalties

The Morning Journal-7 hours ago

Syringes of the opioid painkiller fentanyl are shown in an inpatient pharmacy. Rick Bowmer — The Associated Press file. By Andrew Cass, The News-Heral

Survey: Troops, families are increasingly dissatisfied with Tricare

Military Times-1 hour ago

In February, costs for prescriptions increased at network retail pharmacies and through the online pharmacy program. And this year, with changes in the Tricare ...

Minnesota Pharmacy Board makes fentanyl analogs illegal

Albert Lea Tribune-17 hours ago

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Board of Pharmacy has voted to make many fentanyl analog drugs and synthetic cannabinoids illegal to have or sell.

Use of prescription opioids in US remains high

MD Linx (press release)-10 hours ago

Jeffery's team analyzed a national database of medical and pharmacy claims

How 2 metro Detroit doctors got busted for $20M opioid scheme

Detroit Free Press-7 hours ago

Robinson would then fill the prescriptions and sell the drugs on the street at a ... abuse in this country which is compounded by those that prey on the vulnerable.

Feds charge five with running $20M pill mill in Oak Park
The Daily Tribune-6 hours ago

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Pharmacy exec tied to deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak appeals ...

Reuters-12 minutes ago

The cofounder of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to a deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak has asked a federal appeals court to overturn his ...

Pharmacist charged with making illicit meds

Williamson Daily News-18 hours ago

O'Dell then allegedly ordered bulk quantities of hydrocodone and oxycodone in powder form, compounding the ingredients into pills at the pharmacy, and filling ...

Important Correction Notice: Compounding Sterile ... - ASHP

https://www.ashp.org/-/media/5103BA4F974448F1806EDE8CA6486388.ashx

11 hours ago - Compounding Sterile Preparations, 4th Edition (P4849) by E. Clyde Buchanan, Philip J. Schneider, and Ryan A. Forrey. The publisher wishes to inform you of an 

	Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on FDA’s new efforts to advance antimicrobial stewardship in veterinary settings
	Antimicrobial resistance is a global public health challenge. Antimicrobial drugs have been widely used in human and veterinary medicine for more than 60 years. When used judiciously, antimicrobials can effectively fight bacterial infections. However, we know that overuse or misuse of these drugs promotes the development of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria. For all of these reasons, it’s critical that we implement good antimicrobial stewardship practices in human healthcare and veterinary settings. We must continue to take new steps to slow the development of resistance and extend the usefulness of these lifesaving drugs. Continue reading...