October 29, 2008
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded a $1.19 million contract to the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education, a consortium of 11 leading pharmaceutical engineering universities including Purdue, to develop guidance on design specifications for drug manufacturers, officials announced Wednesday (Oct. 29).
Purdue, with its strengths in pharmacy, engineering and biological Read the rest of this entry »
Hundreds of years ago, people with mental illness might be burned at the stake or locked away in a dungeon. In the early 20th century, some patients with schizophrenia were lobotomized with an ice pick to blunt emotions and reduce agitation.
Other treatments included padded cells, straitjackets, cold wet sheets and electroshock therapy. Mental institutions in the first part of the 20th century were sometimes referred to as “snake pits.” Read the rest of this entry »
She’s a pharmacy clerk responsible for putting your prescriptions together. Now, a Fort Pierce woman is behind bars accused of stealing thousands of pills and selling them on the street.
Emily Humphrey worked at Ocean Side Pharmacy. She was a pharmacy clerk responsible for taking inventory. 21 year-old Humphrey was booked in the St. Lucie County jail this weekend after selling undercover deputies 2,000 oxycodone pills. She charged the deputy $1 Read the rest of this entry »
Does Food and Drug Administration approval guarantee safety? If the Supreme Court rules as expected, patients might have no legal recourse if they are harmed by an FDA-approved medicine.
The case that will soon be decided by the Supreme Court involves a musician who was treated for a migraine. The medicine that was injected to stop her nausea was administered incorrectly. This led to gangrene of her arm and eventual amputation just below the elbow. Read the rest of this entry »
Drug companies justify the high cost of prescription medicines to help pay for breakthroughs of the future. One company even advertises: “Today’s medicines finance tomorrow’s miracles.”
The implication is that if we want wonderful medications to cure Alzheimer’s disease, cancer or diabetes, we should be happy to pay whatever they charge us for drugs to control heartburn, depression or high cholesterol.
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CVS Caremark is the largest provider of prescriptions in the nation. The
Company fills or manages more than 1 billion prescriptions annually. Through
its unmatched breadth of service offerings, CVS Caremark is transforming the
delivery of health care services in the U.S. The Company is uniquely
positioned to effectively manage costs and improve health care outcomes
through its more than 6,800 CVS/pharmacy and Longs Drugs stores; its Caremark
Pharmacy Read the rest of this entry »
used for pain, colds, and other problems, the Associated Press reports. The Food and Drug Administration says that it is trying to squeeze unapproved drugs from the market, but certain federal laws allow Medicaid to continue to cover the drugs. Officials in charge of the Medicaid program say they are aware of the issue, but they say congressional assistance is needed to fix the problem. Both Medicaid and the FDA are under the umbrella of the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »
Associated Press – October 17, 2008 1:45 PM ET
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Police in Concord, N.H., are asking the public for help finding whoever smashed their way into a drug store and stole prescription medicine during the weekend.
Police say officers who responded to a burglar alarm Sunday night at the Medicine Store on South Main Street found that someone had smashed a rear window and tried to disable the alarm by cutting telephone wires.
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WASHINGTON CITY – The Albertsons pharmacy, 915 S. Red Cliffs Drive, was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon.
Washington City Police Chief, Jim Keith, said the suspect is a white male about 50 years old.
“He came into the pharmacy demanding medication,” Keith said. “He exposed a weapon (handgun) and when pharmacists gave him the prescription medications he left on foot in the northeast direction.”
Donna Eggers, public affairs manager for Read the rest of this entry »
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COLUMBIA, S.C., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ — MinuteClinic (), the pioneer and largest provider of retail- based health care in the United States, today opened its first clinics in South Carolina. The health care centers will serve patients inside three CVS/pharmacy stores in the Columbia metropolitan area and a fourth CVS location in Simpsonville, in Greenville County.
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