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Drug Channels News Roundup, February 2021: Accumulator Problems, Humana + ESI, White Bagging Battles, Buy-and-Bill Economics, and Pharmacy Hero Dave Marley

Drug Channels

In this issue: Payers confess: Patients lose from copay accumulators Humana joins the Express Scripts GPO Hospitals vs. PBMs over specialty pharmacy white bagging Let’s all follow the Buy-and-Bill Dollar! Plus, entrepreneurial pharmacy owner Dave Marley demonstrates the power of innovation. Sometimes, the little guy wins big.

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The Gig Economy, Nightwork, and Stimulant Use

Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

In On Speed Rasmussen ( 2008 ) traces the history of this category of drugs, showing how early twentieth-century pharmacies in the United States sold invigorating tonics containing cocaine and nasal decongestants containing amphetamines. Amphetamines were discovered shortly thereafter by chemists.

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Marquis Who’s Who Honors James D. McChesney, PhD, with Inclusion in Who’s Who in the World

The Pharma Data

From 1965 until 1978, Dr. McChesney served as a faculty member at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, who presented him with an Outstanding Teaching Award for the 1967 to 1968 academic year. departing in 2003 to become the chief scientific officer for Tapestry Pharmaceuticals and ChromaDex Inc.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You FDA’s nonprescription advisors find no efficacy for phenylephrine

Agency IQ

Other comments from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) also endorsed the actions sought in the Citizen Petition. Gottlieb also worked in leadership positions at FDA and CMS from 2003 to 2007. He penned thoughts on LinkedIn following the vote.

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A Texas Mess

Drug & Device Law

2003); Birdsong v. Alabama State Board of Pharmacy , 61 F.4th Okuley’s Pharmacy & Home Medical , N.E.3d See Henry Schein, Inc. Stromboe , 102 S.W.3d 3d 675, 698 (Tex. 2002); Tracker Marine, L.P. Ogle , 108 S.W.3d 3d 349, 358 (Tex. Toyota Motor Credit Corp. 2002 WL 32830975, at *4 (Tex. May 15, 2002); Bass v. 523, 529 (S.D.

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NPP, DCC, And FDA-Regulated Medical Products

Drug & Device Law

644 (2003), but not to Pike. They can regulate doctors, pharmacies, and grocery stores, but cannot ban an FDA-approved drug like they can pork that comes from pigs not raised in a specific way, the gist of the California law at issue in NPP. Walsh , 538 U.S.

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The FDA and Feasible Alternative Designs

Drug & Device Law

2003), aff’d , 810 N.Y.S.2d In at least the short term, a popular pain reliever would have to be removed from pharmacies. Lederle Laboratories recognized that courts, generally, are “reluctan[t]. . . to determine whether a proposed alternative drug would have received FDA approval.” 2d 839, 851 (N.Y. 2d 506 (N.Y. 2006), app.

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