Wednesday, November 28, 2018

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 .
Vaccines work. Full stop.

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

High importance!! Must Read!! Clinton pharmacist will head to prison in compound pharmacy scheme Lici Beveridge, Hattiesburg American Published 3:55 p.m. CT Nov. 27, 2018 | Updated 4:12 p.m. CT Nov. 27, 2018

https://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/crime/2018/11/27/clinton-pharmacist-sentenced-mississippi-compound-pharmacy-scheme/2096200002/

FDA Review Of Dietary Ingredients For Pharmacy Compounding Could Open Door To Change DSHEA

https://rose.pharmaintelligence.informa.com/RS122497/FDA-Review-Of-Dietary-Ingredients-For-Pharmacy-Compounding-Could-Open-Door-To-Change-DSHEA
Meningitis trial: Emails show New England Compounding Center skipped tests Six former NECC employees are charged with rackete...
Meningitis trial: Emails show New England Compounding Center skipped tests Six former NECC employees are charged with rackete...
BOSTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. Food and Drug Administration official testified on Monday that the agency has concerns about dr...

Kentucky pharmacy treating some ailments

Charlotte Observer-4 hours ago
A southeastern Kentucky pharmacy is among the first in the state to begin treating ... WKYT-TV reports a 2016 state law allows the West Knox Pharmacy 
10/04/2018Jinher, Inc.San Francisco District OfficeCGMP/Dietary Supplement/Adulterated/MisbrandedNot Issued *
10/29/2018I. Shay Cosmetics IncSan Francisco District OfficeCGMP/Finished Pharmaceuticals/AdulteratedNot Issued *
11/02/2018Product Packaging West, Inc.San Francisco District OfficeCGMP/Finished Pharmaceuticals/AdulteratedNot Issued *
11/06/2018Surmasis PharmaceuticalDetroit District OfficeCGMP/Finished Pharmaceuticals/AdulteratedNot Issued *
1/07/2018Jack B Goods Outlet StoreCenter for Food Safety and Applied NutritionUnapproved New Drugs/MisbrandedNot Issued *
11/07/2018MA Labs LLCCenter for Food Safety and Applied NutritionUnapproved New Drugs/MisbrandedNot Issued *
11/08/2018Avalon PackagingDenver District OfficeNew Drugs/Dietary Supplements/Food Labeling/MisbrandedNot Issued *
11/09/2018Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.Center for Drug Evaluation and ResearchCGMP/Finished Pharmaceuticals/AdulteratedNot Issued *

Monday, November 26, 2018

A SCOTUS case on 'cobra sexual energy' supplements highlights ...

STAT-17 hours ago
But the case points to the limited role of the Food and Drug Administration in policing the supplement industry. Dietary supplements, which include everything ...

ThermoLife Accuses Supplement Co. Of False Advertising

Law360-56 minutes ago
Law360 (November 26, 2018, 9:32 PM EST) -- Dietary supplement maker ThermoLife International LLC has accused rival American Fitness Wholesalers LLC of ...

FDA Action Against Dietary Supplements Containing Tianeptine ...

The National Law Review-10 hours ago
The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1993 (DSHEA) was intended to provide a framework for FDA to regulate dietary supplements. DSHEA ...

State continues troubleshooting opioid crisis

The Sheridan Press-8 hours ago
Wyoming Board of Pharmacy Executive Director Lisa Hunt said the drug database includes a practitioner report, which shows how the number of prescriptions 

Stop calling them 'painkillers'

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-20 hours ago
Yet the SHPA's new paper, the first Australian study to comprehensively analyse current hospital pharmacy practices around opioids, shows that more than 70% ...

PCMA Statement on the Administration's Proposed Medicare Part D ...

Idaho State Journal-3 hours ago
While we are reviewing the propose

Pharmacist partied so hard he was suspended

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-20 hours ago
A British pharmacist had difficulty breathing, lay down in the dispensary and had to have an ambulance called after taking cocaine for “three days straight”

32 States Back Ark. In Potential High Court Drug-Price Fight

Law360-1 hour ago
“States have played a key role in monitoring costs, accessibility and utilization of pharmacy benefits, including through oversight of PBMs,” the states said.

Amazon could be making move to broaden scope of PillPack services ...

Healthcare Finance News-8 hours ago
A slew of new licenses applied for by internet pharmacy startup PillPack has analysts predicting an expansion of its reach under new parent Amazon, which ...

More Than 1200 NC Pharmacies Being Added to Substance ...

WFMYNews2.com-8 hours ago
The state announced it's adding more than 1,200 pharmacies participating in the Controlled Substance Reporting System, including 367 CVS Pharmacy stores.

Selling CBD oil: Implications for pharmacy owners

Pharmacy Today, American Pharmacists Association, pharmacist.com-5 hours ago
For many pharmacy owners, having a large section of OTC products is vital to maintaining profitability. Nonprescription product management can be relatively ...

Amazon is threatening the future of independent pharmacies. Here's ...

Business Insider-14 hours ago
Independent pharmacists have been facing a changing industry for decades but have managed to maintain a presence in communities around the US.

Amazon is threatening the future of independent pharmacies. Here's ...

Business Insider-14 hours ago
Independent pharmacists have been facing a changing industry for decades but have managed to maintain a presence in communities around the US.

Trump administration takes aim at pharmacy fees in complicated new ...

STAT-1 hour ago
The actual idea takes aim at the fees some pharmacies pay to some drug makers as part of their contracts with insurance companies or pharmacy benefit .

License of Detroit's People Pharmacy and pharmacist suspended

License of Detroit's People Pharmacy and pharmacist suspended

WDIV ClickOnDetroit-7 hours ago
DETROIT - The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs served orders suspending the controlled substance license of People Pharmacy of Detroit and 

Meningitis trial: Heat, humidity out of control at drug-making facility ...

The Tennessean-3 hours ago
BOSTON – One government microbiologist said she couldn't believe what she was hearing when the environmental quality supervisor at a drug compounding ..

Sunday, November 25, 2018

Mid-Valley Health Services, PHY 37093, Administrative Case AC 6241
Ceres, CA
Through a disciplinary action of the Board, the license is publicly reproved.
Decision effective 10/18/2018.
View the Decision
Mid-Valley Health Services, LSC 100004, Administrative Case AC 6241
Ceres, CA
Through a disciplinary action of the Board, the license is publicly reproved.
Decision effective 10/18/2018.
View the Decision

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Mylan recalls 15 lots of blood pressure drug in US

Becker's Hospital Review-6 hours ago
... and Teva Pharmaceuticals, have recalled valsartan products under heightened scrutiny from regulators. Read the full report here. More articles on pharmacy:

Lawsuit against pharmacy over senior's death can go ahead, judge rules

CBC.ca-14 hours ago
A Nova Scotia judge has ruled a lawsuit launched by the family of a senior whose death was allegedly caused by a medication prescription error can proceed as ...

FDA Wants Internet Registrars To Act Against Illegal Online Pharmacies

Inside Health Policy-3 hours ago
As pharmacy and other health care stakeholders convened last week to discuss myriad issues surrounding illegal online sales of prescription drugs, one FDA ...

Vermont reaches settlement with pharmacy benefit manager

WCAX-6 hours ago
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) The Vermont Attorney General's office says it has resolved a dispute with the state's pharmacy benefit manager for $503,500. The state ...

Amazon's PillPack may be gearing up to serve the retailer's ...

CNBC-5 hours ago
Amazon bought PillPack, an internet pharmacy start-up, earlier this year, leading to speculation that the e-retailer will soon start selling prescription drugs on its ...

Attorneys general fighting for right to regulate pharmacy middlemen

Dayton Daily News-2 hours ago
Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, act as middlemen between pharmacies, ... RELATED: Ohio Medicaid plans to cancel pharmacy middlemen contracts

FDA Issues Safety Communication Regarding Medications Utilized in ...

WorkersCompensation.com (press release)-12 hours ago
Additionally, any compounded mixture of two or more different medications is also not approved for use in intrathecal pumps. Potential adverse events resulting 

Use of Telemedicine Growing in Compounding Schemes

WorkCompCentral-16 hours ago
A high-tech twist on a compounding medication scheme could be seen as a cautionary tale on the growing use of telemedicine in workers' compensation.