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Pharmaceutical News: FDA guilty of malfeasance

FDA guilty of malfeasance Can the Food and Drug Administration be charged with malfeasance in office? I have a complaint that I have found is not unique. Others have had the same problem with other prescriptions. A foot injury many … Continue reading

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Pharmaceutical News: Federal funding for at-home drug dispenser

NRC-IRAP Funds the Latest Innovation from PharmaTrust™ in Pharmacy Medication Management Systems Tony Clement, Federal Industry Minister, announced today a contribution agreement of up to $300,000 in funding for PharmaTrust™ from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance … Continue reading

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Pharmaceutical and Drugs Industry News

Symantec Announces January 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report: Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced the publication of its January 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report. Analysis reveals that following a two-week dramatic decline in spam levels, spam now accounts for 78.6 percent of … Continue reading

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US Pharmacy News

Federal Government To Develop Its Own Drugs In Effort to Spur Pharmaceutical Industry Faced with a diminished drug-development pipeline in the private sector, the Obama administration is starting a federal drug development center, aiming to spur the creation of new … Continue reading

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Drug Industry News

Big Pharma Outlook Still Bearish After Mixed Earnings pharmaceutical companies are facing some major profit downers in 2011, as the industry deals with regulatory reform from the health care bill passed last spring, and as major pharmaceutical companies face patent … Continue reading

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Pharmaceutical Research News

Burke Pharmaceutical Research tests topical treatment for head lice Head lice is the second most, infectious disease among children, next to the common cold. A new drug for lice is coming to the market and a Hot Springs physician spear-headed … Continue reading

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Drugs and Generics Industry News

USP revision aids PET drug prep A proposal by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention aims for greater flexibility in the preparation of radiopharmaceuticals for use in positron emission tomography. The USP has proposed quality assurance revisions to the general chapter for … Continue reading

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Laws and Pharmacy Today

AGs Push to Stop Drug Industry Pay to Delay Practice Attorneys general from across the country are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stop pharmaceutical industry reverse payment agreements, a practice that they say prevent consumers from obtaining low-cost generic … Continue reading

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Pharmacy and Drugs News

U of T revising pain course over pharma influence concerns TORONTO — A complaint about perceived drug industry involvement in a pain management course for medical students has prompted the University of Toronto to revamp its curriculum. An informal inquiry … Continue reading

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Drugs industry’s battle

Another casualty in the drugs industry’s battle The pharmaceutical industry’s effort to find new ways of discovering and developing drugs has been underway for most of this decade, but it remains a struggle. The latest sign is the replacement of … Continue reading

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