The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB), and the national pharmacy organisations representing community pharmacy in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, have called upon the Department of Health (DoH) to remove the “three year rule,” whereby EU qualified pharmacists cannot act as the responsible pharmacist unless the pharmacy premises have been registered with …
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When a pharmaceutical company wants its new drug on the market, it must first submit mountains of paperwork to regulatory agencies like the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA)-most of it scientific articles describing the drug’s properties. Gathering these articles can be time-consuming, expensive and downright exhausting…
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Health-Care Help From The Rookies The Washington Post The headlines went to a possible compromise on the contentious issue of the public option, but the greater victory may lie in less-publicized Senate action that might actually cut the costs of our impossibly expensive health-care system…
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The New York Times: “Debating an overhaul of the health care system, the Senate found itself tied in knots on Thursday over a bipartisan proposal to allow people to import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and certain other countries…
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Illinois prepares to implement a medical reporting law while CVS receives a contract to provide $1 billion in pharmacy benefits in Texas. Chicago Tribune/The Associated Press: “Ten years ago, a landmark report said medical mistakes kill up to 98,000 Americans yearly…
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A drug information interface system developed by two University of Alberta researchers has been shown to help in dealing with visual and motor impairments, which can make sorting, holding and indentifying pills a challenge as we age. Lisa Given and Stan Ruecker, professors in humanities computing, asked seniors, age 65 and older, to imagine having accidentally dropped and mixed up their pills…
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Aptuit, Inc. announced the publication of new research in the December issue of the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the official journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS), which describes the solid-state characterization of three forms of finasteride…
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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a drug alert about a batch recall of Metatone Tonic 300 ml. Chefaro UK Ltd, the medicine’s licence holder, is carrying out the recall due to the presence of very small amounts of petrol in the medicine. The affected batch number is 112 and the product itself could smell of petrol…
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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) launched new guidance on the best practice for the sale of pain relief medication. The guidance outlines that no more than two packs should be sold in one transaction and discourages retailers from promoting offers that encourage the sale of more than one pack at a time…
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Debate on a proposal that would make it easier to bring prescription drugs into the country from abroad is taking center stage on the Senate floor as part of the health care reform debate…
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