Slow news day in La Crosse, WI ?

State board reprimands, fines Allergychoices, pharmacist. http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/state-board-reprimands-fines-allergychoices-pharmacist/article_29f00ba8-7bc3-11e2-8eb9-001a4bcf887a.html From the article: Allergychoices was ordered to forfeit $1,000 and pay $3,500 in costs, and Kachel was ordered to pay $100 in costs, according to the pharmacy board’s Feb. 13 order. Allergychoices is a retail pharmacy spinoff of Allergy Associates of La Crosse, also in Onalaska, that is […]

Okla. panel approves bill to give Pharmacy Board oversight over pharmacy benefit managers

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/af30a296044d4250b86801cca7e2faba/OK–Pharmacy-Board This is still going thru the legislature… I guess the PBM’s will have to send their army of lobbyists to OK to try and get the bill killed. If it does pass.. it will be interesting if/how the BOP tries to use its authority to reign in the PBM’s virtually monopolists practices… I find […]

Death count up to 47 !!!

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/GeneralNeurology/37444?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=WC&xid=NL_DHE_2013-02-21&eun=g578717d0r& From the article: The pattern of disease has changed and the rate of new cases has slowed sharply – just 43 in the five weeks since Jan. 7 — but the end of the outbreak could still be weeks off, according to Tom Chiller, MD, deputy director of the CDC’s mycotic diseases branch. “I […]