Importing Drugs from Canada is a Flawed “Solution” for Failures in the U.S.

Importing Drugs from Canada is a Flawed “Solution” for Failures in the U.S. https://pharmacistactivist.com/2019/December_2019.shtml Prices in the United States for many medications, primarily generic products, are reasonable and even inexpensive considering their value in maintaining and improving health. HOWEVER, the prices for many other medications are excessive and unjustifiable. It is the pharmaceutical companies that […]

FDA issues warning letter for not including the most serious risks in advertisement for medication-assisted treatment drug

FDA issues warning letter for not including the most serious risks in advertisement for medication-assisted treatment drug https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-issues-warning-letter-not-including-most-serious-risks-advertisement-medication-assisted The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today posted a warning letter to Alkermes, Inc. of Massachusetts, for misbranding the drug Vivitrol (an extended-release injection formulation of naltrexone) by omitting warnings about the most serious risks associated with […]

Four in five pharmacists at high risk of burnout; many reconsider career, survey reveals

Four in five pharmacists at high risk of burnout; many reconsider career, survey reveals https://www.pharmacy.biz/four-in-five-pharmacists-at-high-risk-of-burnout-many-reconsider-career-survey-reveals/ A new survey has revealed that 80 per cent pharmacists are at high or very high risk of burnout because of exhaustion, with over half of them thinking of a career switch. The survey conducted by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society […]

Apparently Express Scripts (PBM) is trying to eliminate independent pharmacies by “hook or crook”

Apparently Express Scripts (PBM) is trying to eliminate independent pharmacies by “hook or crook”