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State Boards of Pharmacy Missing in Action During Opioid Crisis

Policy Prescription

state boards of pharmacy to properly regulate pharmacies that irresponsibly and too often illegally profited from opioid drug sales to patients. West Virginia, sadly, is the poster child of the opioid drug crisis in the United States. Last year, the state ranked 5th in the rate of drug overdose deaths.

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Article FDA Thank You In unanimous decision, Supreme Court solves FDA’s ‘standing’ issue

Agency IQ

In unanimous decision, Supreme Court solves FDA’s ‘standing’ issue Two lower courts had articulated a Rube Goldberg-esque theory of “standing” – the right of a person or organization to sue another entity – based on the idea that doctors not prescribing mifepristone or treating patients who had taken it had experienced economic harms.

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Women in STEM with Dr Catherine Sheehan

Drug Target Review

The regulatory science project I pursued for my first master’s degree titled, “21st Century Pharmaceutical Excipients: Consequences of a Global Supply Chain and Lack of Excipient Regulations” aimed to draw attention to the risks created by the lack of sufficient oversight of the pharmaceutical excipient supply chain.

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Beyond blood tests: The evolution of digital biomarkers in clinical research

Drug Discovery World

Digital biomarkers promise to transform preventive medicine and clinical trials, but also raise issues of security, regulation and potential disparities in access. In certain cases, to pinpoint the specific type of ILD and its severity, doctors might recommend a lung biopsy.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. This post examines the Zarzamora pharmacy and prescribing red flags decision. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy, Nos.

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Who are the AACR Scientific Achievement Award winners?

Drug Discovery World

He is being recognised for his celebrated contributions to the understanding and targeting of pancreas cancer metastasis, including work that has assisted with the development of minnelide, a pro-drug of triptolide for the treatment of pancreas and gastrointestinal cancers that is currently in Phase II clinical trials.

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

Agency IQ

FDA’s nonprescription advisors find no efficacy for phenylephrine This week, FDA’s Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee (NDAC) voted unanimously that current scientific data do not support the efficacy of oral phenylephrine as a nasal decongestant, aligning with FDA analysis — and re-analysis — of data.

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