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Opinion: Allowing pharmacies to dispense methadone is dangerous for patients and communities

STAT News

These highly regulated facilities are made up of multidisciplinary teams of physicians, nurses, counselors, and social workers who provide comprehensive medication-assisted treatment. Many Americans with opioid use disorder go to one of the nearly 2,000 opioid treatment programs (OTPs) in the U.S. Read the rest…

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U.S. Pharmacy Chains Harm Patients With Medication Errors; NABP Appears Silent

Pharmacy Checkers

When you go to your local CVS and Walgreens – and other big pharmacy chains – are you getting the highest standard of care? Have these pharmacies gone rogue? Yet the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) doesn’t seem to be paying much attention to medication errors at U.S. pharmacies. pharmacy industry.

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Q&A: As RSV vaccine approvals loom, regulators need to devise vaccination strategies

Pharmaceutical Technology

When it comes to vaccines, in addition to assessing the data, regulators also need to evaluate whether it is appropriate to vaccinate the target audience and if it will be effective in preventing disease, disabilities and deaths, says Sachiko Ozawa, PhD, a health economist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Hospitals: Do You Know Where Your Controlled Substances Are?

FDA Law Blog

But there has been a recent string of large civil monetary settlements, some in the millions of dollars, to resolve allegations that hospitals’ non-compliance with the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and DEA regulations allowed employees to divert staggering quantities of controlled substances.

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Advancing and Safeguarding Clinical Research for a Better Tomorrow

Advarra

Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) regulations on good clinical practice, which are based on ethical standards outlined in frameworks such as the Belmont Report and the Declaration of Helsinki. Advarra ensures that clinical trials comply with the U.S.

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Medicines adherence: Overcoming pharma’s biggest barrier to treatment success

Pharmaceutical Technology

Medications module to help medication adherence Huma is a global healthcare company using digital technology to transform treatments with the “world’s first” digital health multi-disease platform regulated under European Union MDR (Medical Device Regulation) Class IIb.

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Corporate Liability from Employee Diversion: Costly on Many Fronts

FDA Law Blog

In one case, between 2017 and 2019, a Sovah pharmacy technician diverted more than 11,000 schedule II drugs and 1,900 schedule III and IV drugs by indicating in the computer system that they were moved to a location no longer used by the hospital and she destroyed required drug movement forms. 4, 2022). 4, 2022).

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