California Pharmacy Board To Consider Delaying Deadline For Electronic Drug Tracking System The California Pharmacy Board on Tuesday will consider extending until Jan. 1, 2011, the deadline for implementing an electronic drug tracking system approved by the state Legislature in 2004, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNational Pharmacy Association Feeds In Thoughts On Regulation To PRLOG, UK The NPA has recently provided comments to the chair of PRLOG, Ken Jarrold, on the burden of regulation in community pharmacy, revalidation and CPD. The Group agreed to take these points into account. As the burden of regulation on pharmacy is increasing there may be a case for streamlining the inspection regime and potentially reducing costs. Community pharmacy is inspected by the RPSGB inspectors and by PCTs/LHBs.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comObesity May Keep Some Women From Getting Screened For Breast, Cervical Cancer A review of cancer screening studies shows that white women who are obese are less likely than
healthy weight women to get the recommended screenings for breast and cervical cancer, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Public
Health.The trend was not seen as consistently among black women; however there were fewer high quality studies that examined black women separately.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
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