Walgreens CEO isn't convinced Amazon will get into healthcare

Business Insider-8 hours ago

Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Stefano Pessina doesn't see Amazon getting into the pharmacy business. His comments come at a time when other healthcare companies have been taking Amazon's potential entry into healthcare very seriously. Pessina said if Amazon were to get into the pharmacy business, it would have ...

Express Scripts CEO sees Amazon as a potential pharmacy partner

CNBC-10 hours ago

Express Scripts CEO Tim Wentworth welcomes Amazon's consideration to make a push into the multibillion-dollar pharmacy market. He also cautions that lowering consumer prices is not "the magic" of selling prescriptions online. Wentworth would not confirm whether Express Scripts is talking with Amazon about a ...

Express Scripts CEO says open to insurer deal, ties with Amazon
Chicago Tribune-6 hours ago

Express Scripts CEO sees Amazon as possible partner
St. Louis Business Journal-3 hours ago

Express Scripts CEO sees Amazon as a potential partner: CNBC
Reuters-11 hours ago

Express Scripts CEO says he sees Amazon as a potential partner
Nasdaq-11 hours ago

Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on the approval of a new formulation of buprenorphine and FDA’s efforts to promote more widespread innovation and access to opioid addiction treatments
With the approval today of a monthly formulation of the drug buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid use disorder, patients have access to a new and longer-acting option for the treatment of opioid addiction. Millions of Americans are suffering from addiction to opioid drugs, and millions more are worried that the overdose epidemic could claim the lives of a friend or loved one. We need immediate actions to help those suffering from an opioid use disorder transition to lives of sobriety. Continue reading.

Remarks from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., as prepared for oral testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Hearing, “Implementing the 21st Century Cures Act: An Update from FDA and NIH”

	Chairman Burgess, Ranking Member Greene, members of the subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the anniversary of the 21st Century Cures Act, and to update you onFDA’s progress in implementing the provisions of this landmark legislation.  The Cures Act gave FDA a broad new set of authorities and resources to adapt our policies and organizational structure, to make sure that our efforts are as modern as the transformative medical products that we’re seeing. Continue reading.

• German regulators OK corrective plan for a Dr. Reddy’s formulation plant

• Dr. Reddy’s facing more legal battles in U.S. over FDA inspections, warning letters

• Biotin (Vitamin B7): Safety Communication - May Interfere with Lab Tests Biotin in patient samples can cause falsely high or falsely low results, depending on the test. Incorrect test results may lead to inappropriate patient management or misdiagnosis. Posted 11/28/2017

11/24/2017

Sun Pharma

Riomet® (Metformin Hydrochloride Oral Solution), 500 mg/5mL

Microbial Contamination (Scopulariopsis brevicaulis)

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd

West Haven drug dealer sentenced to 3 days 'time served' in 2016 ...

New Haven Register-15 hours ago

The government's sentencing memorandum noted Bell committed “a very serious crime” by distributing Xanax, compounded in that the drug contributed to the ...

FDA Warning Wire: Issues At Compounding Pharmacy Linked To Vision Loss

FDA Warning Wire: Issues At Pharmacy Linked To Vision Loss

Law360-13 hours ago

Law360, New York (November 28, 2017, 8:29 PM EST) -- A compounding pharmacy linked to patients with post-surgical vision problems was found to be using ...

Doctors Make Big Money Testing Urine For Drugs, Then Ignore Abnormal Results

https://khn.org/news/doctors-make-big-money-testing-urine-for-drugs-then-ignore-abnormal-results/

At Long Last, FDA Publishes Draft Guidance on Grandfathering Policy for Products Without a DSCSA Product Identifier. FDA’s Message? “Get Packaging” Posted: 28 Nov 2017 08:13 PM PST

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Olympic Doping Diaries: Chemist's Notes Bolster Case Against Russia .

Olympic Doping Diaries: Chemist's Notes Bolster Case Against Russia ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/sports/olympics/russia-doping.html

9 mins ago - His diaries cataloging 2014 and 2015 — his final years as Russia's antidoping ... His contemporaneous notes, seen by The New York Times and ... Putin Sees U.S. Conspiracy After Olympic Doping Ban on 4 Russians NOV.

Report: Whistleblower Diary Strengthens Case Against Russia - The ...

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/11/.../olympics/ap-oly-russian-doping-diary.ht...

45 mins ago - Diary entries from the key whistleblower in the Russian doping scandal ... further evidence when the IOC decides Russia's fate for the upcoming Olympics. ... The New York Times obtained entries from the diary kept by Grigory ...

Olympic Doping Diaries: Chemist's Notes Bolster Case Against Russia ...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/images/100000005574516/.../olympics/russia-doping.htm...

3 hours ago - Jan. 28, 2014: The diary of Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of Russia's antidopinglab.Hilary Swift for The New York Times ..

Drug manufacturer to invest $31M in Arkansas facility, plans to hire ...

Arkansas Online-22 hours ago

The company is reportedly planning four phases of development over the next 10 years, the first of which will focus on compounded medications needed in ...

Generic Drug Manufacturer to Invest $31.3M in Fayetteville Plant
Arkansas Business Online-3 hours ago

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Pharmacy compliance director pleads guilty over mislabeled drugs

Compliance Week (blog)-18 hours ago

The former director of compliance for a compounding pharmacy company pleaded guilty last week to introducing adulterated drugs into interstate commerce and ...

Pharmaceutical Company Plans for Fayetteville Facility

KNWA-16 hours ago

The generic compounding facility, beyond simply adding jobs, should do something to affect the cost of prescription drugs since the facility will place generic ...

Generic Medications Maker to Create 100+ Jobs in Fayetteville
KARK-19 hours ago

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11/03/2017

Guardian Pharmacy Services

Dallas District Office

Compounding Pharmacy/Adulterated Drug Products

Not Issued *

11/20/2017

Dae Young Foods Co., Ltd.

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

CGMP/Finished Pharmaceuticals/Adulterated

Not Issued *

11/07/2017

2074359

Dignity Health-Northridge Hospital Medical Center

483

CA

Producer of Sterile Drug Products

11/27/2017

• Fresenius Kabi to invest $100M, add 445 jobs in North Carolina as U.S. investments now top $5B

High Importance and Must Read!! Order in ALLERGAN USA INC. V. IMPRIMIS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. Case No. SA CV 17-1551-DOC (JDEx) --ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS

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The good and bad in fight against opioids

Foster's Daily Democrat-7 hours ago

There is good news and bad in the fight against opioid addiction in New Hampshire. The good news is that many police departments and others are holding ..

Millions face pain, withdrawal as opioid prescriptions plummet

Seacoastonline.com-7 hours ago

Finally, in 2006, he was prescribed strong doses of opioids. Fast-forward 10 years. Still on his pain killers, Hale was popping so many of the highly addictive pills ...

Ken Hall: Politicians must 'just say no' to corporate money in opioid ...

Charleston Gazette-Mail-Nov 25, 2017

If our elected officials are serious about tackling the opioid crisis, they must free themselves from the corporations that have helped fuel this epidemic.

Lost Productivity From Opioid Addiction Is Draining Billions From ...
The Daily Caller-21 hours ago

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NYC launches $3M campaign to fight opioid epidemic

SILive.com-19 hours ago

The campaign -- "Living Proof that Opioid Addiction Treatment with Methadone and Buprenorphine Works," -- is part of the HealingNYC, which is a city initiative ...

Opiate addiction: Drug treatment more effective than detox
The Daily Herald-15 hours ago

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Idaho needs to get ahead of the opioid crisis

Idaho Press-Tribune-20 hours ago

The national epidemic of opioids is all over the news these days. President Trump last month declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. The U.S. ..

We must stop America's opioid epidemic

Clinton Herald-Nov 25, 2017

The opioid epidemic is a national problem that is creating major havoc in certain parts of the country. Opioid overdose has grown at a crisis proportion and must ...

Tangled incentives push drugmakers away from opioid solutions

Indianapolis Business Journal-16 hours ago

Pharmaceutical companies have introduced medicines to treat dependence, reverse overdoses and deal with opioid side effects. But few effective and ...

Should Hospitals Be Punished For Post-Surgical Patients' Opioid ...

NPR-5 hours ago

After two weeks of recovery from an addiction to opioids prescribed by her surgeon, Katie Herzog takes a walk with her dog, Pippen. Jesse Costa/WBUR hide ...

How to save money on your pet's medical care

Lewiston Sun Journal-11 hours ago

Some pet owners swear by compounding, in which a pharmacist adds flavoring to the medication to make it taste like something an animal might want to eat or ...

Pharmacists aren't aiding stockpiling

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)-10 hours ago

Pharmacy leaders have described as a “beat-up” the suggestion that pharmacists are aiding codeine patients to stock up on low-dose codeine medicines ahead ...

Test your DNA at a pharmacy? Now you can

CBC.ca-18 hours ago

A new DNA test being offered at select Canadian pharmacies will allow pharmaciststo determine how patients will respond to different medications, according to ...

What Are the Drug Supply Chain Security Act's Key Provisions?

Pharmacy Times-3 hours ago

The law regulates transactions between dispensers and pharmacies and also among manufacturers, repackagers, wholesale distributors, third-party logistics ...

Pharmacy board lays down the law for compounded medicines

Pharmacy board lays down the law for compounded medicines

Pharmacy News-16 hours ago

If a pharmacist receives a request to prepare a compounded medicine and there is a commercial medicine with a close formulation, they should contact the ...

Recently Updated Advisory Committee Materials - FDA

https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/WhatsNew/default.htm

8 hours ago - Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee. Draft Meeting Roster for the November 20-21, 2017 Meeting of the Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee .

Former Compliance Director Guilty Of Heinous Drug Alteration And ...

The Daily Caller-4 hours ago

The former compliance director of an Indiana compounding pharmacy pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud and misdemeanor for introducing adulterated drugs to the market. Sixty-three year old Caprice R. Bearden pleaded guilty to introducing adulterated drugs into interstate commerce and conspiracy to defraud the Food 

• Limbrel Capsules by Primus Pharmaceuticals: FDA Advisory - Linked to Potentially Life-Threatening Health Problems Anyone who is currently taking Limbrel may be at risk for developing symptoms associated with drug-induced liver injury and/or hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Posted 11/21/2017

Worldwide: Food, Dietary Supplement & Cosmetics Update | Vol. IV ...

Mondaq News Alerts-7 hours ago

This guidance is intended to help domestic and foreign facilities that are required to register as food facilities under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ... In the November 2, 2017, Federal Register, USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ("APHIS") published a direct final rule notifying of its intention to ...

Kratom News: Advocates of the Herb Fight on as FDA Takes Over ...

Heavy.com-21 hours ago

The DEA eventually withdrew their intent to schedule kratom, but the issue has now been handed over to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). Advocates of the herb say the FDA only needs to see how much the plant has helped and continues to aid those who are suffering debilitating ailments, in order to understand that ...

Lane County Health Officials Warn Against Kratom
KLCC FM Public Radio-22 hours ago

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FDA raids Florida stores that consumers use to buy drugs from ...

News Chief-Nov 21, 2017

The Food and Drug Administration last month sent criminal investigation agents with search warrants into nine storefronts across Central Florida that help customers order drugs from pharmacies in Canada and overseas at big discounts. The agents notified the store owners that importing drugs from foreign countries is ...

FDA: Potentially Life-Threatening Adverse Events Linked to Limbrel

Monthly Prescribing Reference-6 hours ago

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advisory regarding serious adverse events linked to the medical food Limbrel (flavocoxid; Primus). Limbrel is indicated for the dietary management of the metabolic processes associated with osteoarthritis, and is available in 250mg and 500mg strength capsules.

FDA: Limbrel linked to 'potentially life-threatening' problems
Healio-8 hours ago

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Colorado kratom death: Bereaved woman says government could ...

Denverite-8 hours ago

A lack of regulation of dietary supplements is part of the problem, he continued. “This, unfortunately, means that it is impossible to tell what one is purchasing when they believe they are purchasing kratom,” he wrote. It's particularly concerning that kratom may be mixed with other substances, McCurdy added. A study found ...

Florida Based “Magic Pills” Supplement Firm Settles False Ad Charges

South Florida Reporter-16 hours ago

Yet another Flori-Duh Scam Busted: “Magic Pills” that can cure almost everything according to the Feds. But can they get rid of bad politicians? Three Venice, Florida based companies and their owners have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they deceptively marketed and sold 

Florida Supplement Companies, Owners Settle FTC Charges

Natural Products INSIDER (blog)-5 hours ago

Three Florida-based companies and their owners settled FTC charges they made false or unsubstantiated disease claims for dietary supplements targeting HIV/AIDS, high blood pressure and the common cold. The companies—NextGen Nutritionals LLC; Strictly Health Corp. LLC; and Cyber Business Technology LLC ...

In China, Illegal Licenses Enable Fake Pharmacies to Sell ...

The Epoch Times-6 hours ago

Zhang Pu, a laborer working in Zhongshan City in Guangdong Province, was feeling under the weather with a runny nose. He asked his wife to go to a local pharmacy for some over-the-counter medication to alleviate his symptoms. His wife spent a total of 15 yuan (US$2.26) for six small bags of medicine containing a ...

Analyst: Amazon's Entry Into Pharmacy Sector Isn't As Lucrative As ...

Benzinga-Nov 21, 2017

Many pharmacy investors are concerned that Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) could soon enter the pharmacy space by partnering with or acquiring a pharmacybenefit manager. But these concerns may be overblown, at least according to one analyst.

Rite Aid could be the prescription for Amazon's pharmacy ambitions
Retail Dive-7 hours ago

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UPS makes curious move involving prescription drug business with ...

CNBC-1 hour ago

UPS has acquired a manufacturing pharmacy license in Georgia, enabling the shipper to relabel drugs. UPS confirmed to CNBC it obtained the license "to provide services related to new and potential business engagements." This does not appear to be UPS disrupting business from drug distributors like McKesson, but ...

UPS Acquires Pharmacy License As Amazon Move Looms
Investor's Business Daily-49 minutes ago

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Federal Sentencing Awaits Former Pharmakon Exec
Inside INdiana Business-4 hours ago

FDA pushes sanctions vs. some 'products' | SunStar

Sun.Star-1 hour ago

FDA is preparing to file cases against the doctors in Luzon who bought from David Atkinson, the owner of American Compounding Pharmacy Inc. (ACPI) in ...

Former Pharmakon exec pleads guilty to 10 criminal charges

Indianapolis Business Journal-55 minutes ago

Pharmakon compounded drugs at a facility in Noblesville for institutional customers in Indiana and other states. It suspended operations in late 2016 after ...

AmerisourceBergen says civil penalty to resolve DOJ probe now at $625M

• AmerisourceBergen says civil penalty to resolve DOJ probe now at $625M

Not over till it’s over: Pharma ad police issue another warning, this time to Amherst and Magna

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Drug Repackagers, Compounding Pharmacies Continue to Stress Workers’ Comp Systems By Denise Johnson | November 22, 2017

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2017/11/22/281717.htm