Category Archives: Pharmacy

GUC Pharmacy MPRG Documentary Video Video by: Shaheer Shaheen By: GUCinsider … Continue reading →

Pharmacy Technician - Fleming College As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be a valued and essential member of Ontario's healthcare team, working under the direction and supervision of pharmacists. flemingcollege.ca By: FlemingCollege … Continue reading →

Monitoring and Oversight of Psychotropic Medications for Children in Foster Care in North Carolina. Hear directly from North Carolina experts about this important area of child welfare practice. Topics covered include: basics about psychotropic medications, A+KIDS mdash;our state's registry for those who prescribe antipsychotic medications to children, partnering with CCNC, informed consent, and working with birth parents and prescribers. Presenters Kevin Kelley, Chief of the Child Welfare Services Section at the NC Division of Social Services Jerry McKee, Associate Director of Behavioral Health Pharmacy Programs at Community Care of North Carolina Charlene Sampson, Pharmacist with the Outpatient Pharmacy Program, NC Division of Medical Assistance Matt Hillman, Supervisor, Therapeutic Specialized Foster Care Services, Catawba County DSS By: UNCFCRP … Continue reading →

Karaoke for a Cause - Nicki Anderson Nicki Anderson, Oswald's Pharmacy Marketing Director, Health and Fitness Columnist and Author, wows the crowd by singing Pink's "Glitter in the Air" to raise money for Naperville CARES. By: NapervilleCARES … Continue reading →

Strong Medicine''Drugstore Cowgirl'' Special thank to Jisurai, channel: http://www.youtube.com I DO NOT OWN THIS SHOW S01E020 Drugstore Cowgirl Dana cares for a dying patient who has been disguising herself as a man in order to fulfill her calling to the priesthood. Lu prescribes Demerol for a woman suffering from sickle cell anemia, but the woman's local pharmacy will not carry high-priced drugs for fear of robbery. By: Lynn27LSPR … Continue reading →

Script Your Future Ask Your Pharmacist UCWV School of Pharmacy :30 commercial Parody. By: UCWV1 … Continue reading →

Free HIV tests will be offered in Bessemer Thursday as part of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The tests will be offered at FMS Pharmacy downtown from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. They are part of a new testing initiative to be administered by FMS and the Community Pharmacy Residency Program at Samford University. A grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will cover the cost of 200 tests, and FMS will continue to offer free HIV screenings every Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until the CDC grant is used. Bessemer Mayor Kenneth Gulley is scheduled to speak at the event Thursday at 10 a.m. "It's so important that people be tested," Gulley said in a news release. "Thanks to today's treatments, HIV isn't an automatic death sentence. But you're not going to get those life-saving treatments if you don't know you need them." Script Your Future, a national public awareness campaign about the importance of patients taking their medications regularly, is working with FMS and Samford in the HIV testing initiative. "People who don't take their medicine are endangering their health, and that's especially true with HIV," said Patrick Devereux, FMS managing pharmacist. According toDevereux, FMS … Continue reading →

A pharmacy technician who looted cancer drugs from the University of Miamis cancer center must serve two years in prison and pay back a staggering $9 million. Manuel Gerardo Pacheco, 55, pleaded guilty Tuesday, closing an embarrassing chapter that exposed lax security for expensive drugs at UMs Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. In all, investigators found that $14 million in prescription drugs had gone missing from the cancer centers pharmacy during Pachecos time there. School leaders blamed a lack of inventory control, and have since said that security has been beefed up to avoid future losses. The investigation began in May 2011 when a UM pharmacy buyer, not trusting software that tracked the medication, noticed that hundreds of syringes of Neulasta, a drug used to boost white blood cells during cancer treatment, were missing. UM investigators focused on Pacheco, who had recently bought a $56,000 BMW without securing a car loan. Later, hidden surveillance twice caught Pacheco removing blue boxes of the drug, slipping them in his lab coast. He confessed after UM security confronted him. Pacheco later admitting selling them to an associate, Jose Suarez, who has not been charged. Investigators later found a stash of expensive cancer drugs, including … Continue reading →

Armada announced the formation of the Specialty Pharmacy Association of America (SPAARx). Florham Park, NJ (PRWEB) February 04, 2013 The Specialty Pharmacy Association of America (SPAARx) will be neutral to all industry vendors. It will be governed by a board of directors comprised of executives from a diverse group of specialty pharmacies and related organizations. Board members will establish the agenda for shaping the Associations mission, objectives and future activities. The official launch of the Specialty Pharmacy Association of America (SPAARx) will occur at the 9th Annual Armada Specialty Pharmacy Summit which is scheduled for the week of May 6th in Las Vegas, NV. Total participation at this years Summit is projected to reach a record 2,500 specialty pharmacy industry attendees which will rank the Armada Summit among other highly prominent national pharmacy conferences. Armada Summit attendees will be invited to join the new association as charter members. Ultimately, the new association will include thousands of individual members, specialty pharmacy corporations and other related industry organizations from all 50 states. The unifying goal of the association is to preserve and promote the common business interests of specialty pharmacy along with fostering professional and personal growth opportunities within the industry. Over … Continue reading →

The Marlborough compoundingpharmacy West River Pharmacy was one of 11 pharmacies in the state found to be violating industry standards after state officials conducted a series of 40 unannounced inspections, state officials said Tuesday. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health Tuesday said it began the unannounced inspections of compounding pharmacies last fall, following the nationalfungal meningitis outbreak caused by the New England Compounding Center in Framingham. West River Pharmacy was ordered on Dec. 20 to cease and desist all sterile compounding and quarantine all prepared sterile compounds in its possession, DPH said Tuesday in a press release. Officials found that the pharmacy was not be following required standards with regard to facility design and control, DPH said. West River Pharmacy submitted a plan of correction in January, DPH said. As a result of the surprise inspections, 10 other partial or complete cease and desist orders were issued to pharmacies for a variety of violations, DPH said. DPH cited another 21 pharmacies for minor deficiencies that have since been corrected or are in the process of being corrected, the release said. Interim DPH Commissioner Lauren Smith said the findings demonstrate why the state should give more money and create more laws … Continue reading →