Thursday, November 29, 2018

Report: Houston-based pharmacy is supplier of state's execution drugs

Texas Tribune-11 hours ago
Greenpark Compounding Pharmacy has been selling Texas drugs for lethal injections for three and a half years, according to a Buzzfeed News report.

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

CVS Health and Aetna close $69 billion merger 
CVS Health and Aetna closed their $69 billion merger on Wednesday, bringing together one of the nation's largest pharmacy chains and one of the largest health insurers in a deal that transforms the healthcare landscape.  READ MORE

WADA opens Moscow stage of Russian doping investigation

Sport24-Nov 27, 2018
Moscow - A team of experts sent by the World Anti-Doping Agency will meet Russian officials in Moscow on Wednesday to begin the process of recovering data .

WADA experts hold talks in Moscow about doping lab data

Charlotte Observer-7 hours ago
A delegation from the World Anti-Doping Agency held talks with Russian authorities in Moscow on Wednesday as it tries to access data which could mean more ...

How "Cobra Sexual Energy" Got the US Supreme Court All Hot and ...

Inverse-19 hours ago
The dramatically named supplement recently fell so short of its promise to ... in the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), that ...

Check With a Medical Professional Before Taking Dietary ...

Digital Journal-1 hour ago
​​Knowing what to believe about dietary supplements can be difficult; often claims are made about the supplement with little to no research to actually back

Dietary Supplement & Cosmetics Legal Bulletin l November 2018

JD Supra (press release)-17 hours ago
JAMA has published several articles calling for increased scrutiny of dietarysupplements and their ingredients. An October 2, 2018, op-ed describes a study on .

FDA warns against using Rhino male enhancement products

wtvr.com-19 hours ago
Due to a recent rise in reported health issues, the US Food and Drug ... drug products that are frequently misrepresented as dietary supplements and that ...

Pharmacist sentenced in health care fraud scheme

WLOX-1 hour ago
HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) - A Mississippi pharmacist was sentenced Tuesday in federal court for his role in the largest health care fraud case ever in ..

CVS-Aetna merger set to close this week

Journal Inquirer-21 hours ago
Supporters of that trend have said greater coordination between insurers and pharmacy companies will streamline operations and lead to better, less expensive ...

Winners, losers amid CMS' proposed prescription drug policy changes

Becker's Hospital Review-21 hours ago
Pharmacy benefit managers. The rule would also favor PBMs because they will get "incremental negotiating leverage." Before, PBMs had no power to negotiate

PSA gets share of $23 million government funding

Pharmacy News-7 hours ago
Welcoming the funding, PSA president Dr Shane Jackson said the association believed pharmacists' expertise could be better used to meet the health care .

Boots worker sues pharmacy giant for £10k after getting in trouble for ...

The Scottish Sun-2 hours ago
A FORMER Boots employee has successfully sued the pharmacy for £10,000 after being disciplined for joking that half of Nairn was on antidepressants. Annette .

Hospitals regularly prescribe opioids on discharge 'just in case'

Pharmacy News-13 hours ago
An analysis of hospital pharmacy practices surrounding opioids has also revealed less than 10% of hospitals provide GPs with a pain management plan or 

US FDA finds traces of heavy metals in kratom products

MD Linx-7 minutes ago
Reuters Health News | November 28, 2018. The US Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it had found high levels of heavy metals such as lead and 

Progressive Care Signs Letter of Intent to Purchase Florida Based ...

Associated Press (press release)-47 minutes ago
On November 27, 2018, Progressive Care executed a letter of intent to purchase a Florida based pharmacy with locations in Davie and Orlando, Florida.

Edmund Pezalla: Pharmacy benefit managers keeping drug costs down

Tribune-Review-14 hours ago
Recently, the Pennsylvania auditor general and Pennsylvania lawmakers have taken a deeper dive into how pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, operate in 

Pre-printed prescription forms used: Man pleads guilty to defrauding U.S. of $550,000 in Little Rock-based scheme

Man pleads guilty to defrauding U.S. of $550,000 in Little Rock-based scheme: A Nashville, Tenn., man on Monday became the fifth person to plead guilty in a Little Rock-based multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud Tricare, the U.S. military's health insurer.






The San Diego Union-Tribune

Man pleads guilty to defrauding US of $550000 in Little Rock-based ...

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (blog)-5 hours ago
... conspired to generate Tricare-covered prescriptions for compounded drugs for his and his co-conspirators' financial benefit. Three more people pleaded guilty ...

US appeals sentence of pharmacy exec tied to meningitis outbreak

US appeals sentence of pharmacy exec tied to meningitis outbreak

Reuters-14 hours ago
Prosecutors in Boston on Tuesday appealed the nine-year prison sentence of the cofounder of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to a deadly .
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