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The medication is given in a film format the dissolves in your mouth, thus no need for water. The drug is to be used for the prevention of Chemotherapy-induced, Radiotherapy-induced, and Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting. For cancer patients needing treatment from the drug, this could make...
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On this topic, I’ll review a couple prior posts here on what I have suggested, having spent 25 years in logistics, maybe I might an idea or 2 here, if I can some open ears. I called on companies shipping pharmaceuticals to include Pfizer and other medical companies. As well as the carrier...
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04-29-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Medical Devices, FDA, Medications, theft, Microsoft Tags, cargo, shipment, stolen merchandise, warehouses
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This is an interesting history on how this company, originally all family owned, has struggled through many problems and issues and they still are not at bay. The most serious offences were those found by the FDA, with morphine sulfate tablets, an opiate, having twice the amount of the active ingredient...
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04-04-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, FDA, Medications, manufacturing, recall, extended release, oxycontin, Ethex, crminal, fenlony, KV Phamacueticals
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Below is the release from the FDA and today it is a jungle out there with making sure we don’t have counterfeit products. A while back I wrote a few posts about using Microsoft Tags for identifying items that had been recalled. In giving this some further thought, this process could also...
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01-18-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Pharma, FDA, Heatlhcare, Medications, Windows Tags, consumer products, counterfeit drugs
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We are back to the Jupiter study that came out not too long ago about expanding the use of cholesterol reducing drugs. The study involved individuals taking Crestor that were within normal cholesterol ranges, but had some type of heart disease. We only have a little over a year left until Lipitor...
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12-28-2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Pharma, Heart Disease, FDA, Medications, Lipitor, Crestor, Jupiter report, cholesterol
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The results are completely private and use a web-based program to locate. This somewhat a first move of it’s type to be able to get a psychiatric genetic footprint before prescribing medications to treat various mental diseases/conditions to include medications for anti-depression. Anti-...
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10-24-2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Labs, personalized medicine, healthcare, Physicians, FDA, Mental Health, Medications, Patients, Pharmacogenetics, anti-depressants, AssureRX
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I just also read where UnitedHealthCare is going to offer a $20.00 discount today too on some of the higher priced drugs to encourage patients to take their meds. Well, with the stance of the FDA today on so many different drugs and information that is coming out, perhaps some consumers are doing...
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When you register with the service, you will receive an analysis of your current medications. This is a guide and of course always double check with your doctor, but it could lead to some helpful information if you are seeing more than one doctor too as that always seems to be an issue with coordination...
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07-13-2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, FDA, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Medical Errors, Side Effects, Medications, Recalls, Drug Safety, drug conflicts, iGard.org
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All I can say here is that this goes back to a earlier post: The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers In this case we have a bit of both, algorithms created by the scientists, but a requested change by the clinical side of the table? Sounds a bit like the algorithms run...
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11-19-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, drugs, healthcare, Medical Devices, Prescriptions, FDA, Medications, Whistle Blower, Data, Data Base, Algorithms
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Reports of four experimental drugs held up at the FDA emerged in the first two days of this week. “ There’s almost certainly a bit of coincidence at work here, but it also seems to be one more sign of the tough safety climate at the agency these days .” Below are the 4 drugs. No doubt the...
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Digitek, as you may or may not remember was found to contain twice the amount of active ingredient in the tablets earlier this year. The list is below as published by the FDA. The recall is being conducted for retailers to return their products currently. It sounds like...