Millennium Administrators, Inc. named new third party administrator for health insurance for the City of Washington, PA.

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When medical malpractice or negligence occurs, like in the case of medication errors, the responsible parties should be held accountable for their role in injuring or killing another person.

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The Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) has released the April 2010 update of the Content Outline for its Pharmacotherapy specialty examination. That document will be used to construct the Pharmacotherapy examination to be administered by BPS on October 2, 2010. The new Content Outline is posted on the BPS web site, http://www.bpsweb.org [...] Read more »

Stanford Who’s Who welcomes Darius A. Marchertas to the ranks of leading professionals due to his magnificent work in the Manufacturing Industry.

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Medicare’s Part D prescription medication management program, also known as Medication Therapy Management, could be off limits to some of the patients who need it most older African-Americans and Hispanics a new study finds. Medicare introduced the program, Medication Therapy Management or MTM, in 2006 as part of the Part D prescription drug program…

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Elsevier/MC Strategies, a pioneer in providing e-learning solutions to more than 1,300 healthcare organizations, has partnered with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) to develop a series of online nursing courses. Today, AACN and Elsevier/MC Strategies announced the first course in this series: AACN Critical Care Pharmacology…

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ASDA, a UK supermarket chain owned by Walmart, says it is committed to sell all privately prescribed cancer treatment medications on a permanent not for profit basis. The company claims this could save thousands of pounds for many patients. The price of Iressa, used to treat lung cancer, is now sold at £2,167.71 in [...] Read more »

On the 19 May 2010, PGEU was informed that a website selling medicines online – The Canadian Neighbor Pharmacy, a site registered in Russia, was claiming that PGEU supported the website and that “all drugs sold [...] are considered to be approved by PGEU”. The website also claims that four other certifying bodies for [...] Read more »

Commentators are speculating that the time is ripe to overhaul federal drug policies and consider decriminalization as a viable alternative to the current war on drugs.

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Leading mental health experts speak about challenges people living with BPD face.

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