Patients, Community Pharmacists Tell Federal Trade Commission Of CVS/Caremark Merger's Costly Side Effects More than 80 community pharmacists from the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) and several patients met with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today to discuss the negative impact of the March 2007 CVS/Caremark merger and to urge the FTC to re-examine it.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comIan Facer Is New Chairman Of The National Pharmacy Association (NPA), UK The NPA is delighted to announce that the Board of Management has chosen Ian Facer MRPharmS to chair the Association for 2009-2010. Ian Facer joined the NPA Board of Management in 2004 representing NPA members in the North West and owns his own community
pharmacy in Lancashire. Ian will be joined by the newly elected Vice-Chairman, David Evans, and Wally Dove, who has been reappointed Treasurer.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAmericans Faced With Highest Levels of Pollutants in History Double board-certified Dr. Mitchell A. Fleisher makes connection between President Obama's new pollution laws and Americans' internal health. (PRWeb May 21, 2009)
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Source: www.prweb.comTop Health Care Lawmakers, Administration Officials To Address National Community Pharmacists Association Conference May 11-13 Four hundred community pharmacist small business owners from across the country will rally in Washington, D.C.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTall Men Earn More, In Australia As far as earning more, it appears that size really does matter, or at least it does in Australia, where researchers recently discovered a significant link between a man's height and his wage.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWhen Managed By Specialty Pharmacy, MS Patients More Compliant With Medications Multiple sclerosis patients managed by a specialty
pharmacy program were more compliant with medication, and had a lower risk of being hospitalized for their disease than those who were not managed by a specialty
pharmacy program, according to a study completed by HealthCore, Inc. HealthCore researcher Jingbo Yu presented the study at the International Society of Pharmacoeconomic and Outcomes Research 14th Annual International Meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comComparison Is Key To Lower Costs, Better Outcomes From Medications Patients can expect significant savings and better outcomes from their
prescription medications when health care professionals use comparative effectiveness research, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWashington State Drops Budget Provision That Would Have Cut Medicaid Pharmacy Payments Washington state lawmakers this week eliminated a budgetary proposal that would have reduced Medicaid payment rates to pharmacies to the lowest levels in the country, the AP/Spokane Spokesman-Review reports. The provision would have reduced the payment rate from 86% to 80% of the average wholesale price of branded drugs.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCouncil Escalates Its Call For The Decriminalisation Of Dispensing Errors The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain's Council is pressing the government for an urgent change in legislation to decriminalise dispensing errors. Under the Medicines Act 1968, pharmacists automatically commit a criminal offence each time they make a dispensing error or a labelling error - and the Council has set out to champion the case to change the law.
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