Hazardous Pharmaceutical Waste Violations By Hospitals
The vice president of CareFusion Center for Safety and Clinical Excellence, Tim Vanderveen, stated that about 60% of all hospitals in the United States are…
Regulations
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Offer Help For People Who Can’t Afford Their Drugs
Those consumers who cannot afford can get their chance to obtain prescription medications by using assistance programs run by a majority of pharmaceutical companies. The…
Nutritional Information On Foods Is Censored By TheFDA
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is playing a role of competition police for all the largest pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. This makes a…
Health Care Reform And Pharmaceutical Industry
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that was designed to provide health care to…
Medication Labels Should Be Simplified
The study showed, that about 50% of patients do not understand correctly what medication labels mean, even if printed instruction is looking quite simple like…
Higher Medicare Payments For Hospital Outpatients
This year is good for Medicare beneficiaries who need to get their reimbursement for hospital outpatient pharmacies. Payments were slightly increased comparing to 2010 payments…
Healthcare Reform Effects On Pharmacies
On March 21, 2010, the Congress passed the legislation called “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”. President Obama signed it and since March 23,…
Medicare Part D Program From Pharmacy School Reaches New Territory In Health Policy Education
For successful deployment of United States health care reform a huge increase in the policy competition and literacy of all the health care specialists (pharmacists,…
More Attention Will Be Paid To Women’s Health By Pharmacists
There is no doubt, that the pharmacists’ role in healthcare services is growing and now they have to spend more time on consulting, patience education…
Pharmacy Personnel Disaster Preparedness Role Is Redesigned By HHS
The federal government is changing its master plan regarding all the disasters, after the impact of Hurricane Katrina, which impacted Louisiana in 2005. Local hospital…