Labor Unions Launch Campaign To Highlight CVS' Alleged Improper Promotion Of Costly Diabetes Treatment Change to Win, a group of several labor unions, on Friday will launch a campaign alleging that CVS Caremark violated patient privacy and improperly marketed an expensive diabetes drug, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to CTW, a letter sent by CVS to physicians urged them to prescribe
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMen Ignorant About True Risk Of Fake Medicine New research released today (12 November) highlights the risk men are taking by purchasing counterfeit
medicines. The 'Cracking Counterfeit' report commissioned by Pfizer reveals one in ten men interviewed - which would equate to more than 335,931 men living in major cities alone - admit to purchasing
prescription only
medicines without a
prescription.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comThe USA Is Still The Preferred Market For Launching New Medical Products While the number of annual new drug approvals in the United States has declined during the past decade, the U.S. remains the preferred market for launching new products, according to a recently completed analysis conducted by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. The study found that new U.S. drug approvals dropped to 48 in 2005-07, from a peak of 110 in 1996-98.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAbsence Of Medicaid Coverage Impacts Neonatal Male Circumcision Rates Lack of Medicaid coverage for neonatal male circumcision correlated with lower rates of circumcision, a new study found. In light of recent clinical trials in Africa that suggest uncircumcised males may face greater risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, lack of Medicaid coverage for circumcision may translate into future
health disparities for children born to poor families covered by Medicaid.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCVS, Rite Aid Will Provide Language Services For Non-English-Speaking Customers Filling Prescriptions In New York State CVS and Rite Aid pharmacies in New York have agreed to provide customers who fill
prescriptions with spoken and written language services in Chinese, French, Italian, Russian, Polish and Spanish, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (D) announced on Thursday,
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTIBCO Speeds Drug Discovery For Chemists TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX), today announced the release of TIBCO Spotfire® Lead Discovery. The solution allows chemists to quickly access chemistry and biological data in a single analysis environment, then easily build best-practice applications for chemical structure analysis. The solution, built on the powerful TIBCO Spotfire® Enterprise Analytics platform,, integrates with leading cheminformatics software, including Symyx and CambridgeSoft.
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