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FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, announced the agency's decision to revoke the breast cancer indication for bevacizumab (Avastin), noting that the benefits do not outweigh the potentially life-threatening side effects, such as heart attack or heart failure, high blood pressure, bleeding and hemorrhaging, and the development of perforations in different parts of the body, such as the nose, stomach, and intestines.

The NACDS lauded the U.S. Senate’s vote last week to defeat an amendment that would have allowed “personal importation” of prescription medications from Canada.

FDA has approved bupivacaine hydrochloride injection, USP (Sagent and Strides Arcolab), a local or regional anesthetic, for use in surgery, dental and oral surgery procedures, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and obstetrical procedures.

In this section we showcase products and product news that ran up against space limitations or fell outside the parameters of recently featured categories in the print edition.

Community pharmacists? opposition to the proposed Express Scripts/Medco Health Solutions merger was heard loud and clear during NCPA?s annual convention held last week in Nashville, Tenn.

Purdue Pharma and the NCPA premiered the third annual ?RxPATROL Pharmacy Safety and Security? video last week at NCPA?s annual convention in Nashville, Tenn.

Medicare Part B patients will suffer if diabetes testing supplies are subjected to competitive bidding prices, concluded a recent NCPA survey of more than 800 independent pharmacists.

FDA has approved deferiprone (Ferriprox, ApoPharma) to treat patients with iron overload resulting from blood transfusions in patients with thalassemia who had an inadequate response to previous chelation therapy.

Readers speak out about the importance of pharmacy techs, vaccine programs, and changes in the profession.

More than a year after Walgreens began collecting unused medications in all of its stores, it has added a Sharps' needle disposal system for customers' used needles.

Dose management tools used in the oncology and central pharmacies of a Maryland medical center have improved pharmacy workflow and reduced medication errors.

A recent analysis of data from the Nurses' Health Study showed a link between physical inactivity and incident idiopathic pulmonary embolism.

As the current generation of pharmacy owners retires, women are stepping up in greater numbers.

FDA has approved fidaxomicin and telaprevir.

A 10- or 12-hour work day. No meal break scheduled. No BREAK scheduled. What's a hungry pharmacist to do?

Medicaid formularies cost more than the WHO's Model List of Essential Medicines.

A growing number of concerned pharmacists and pharmacy owners have formed a coalition dedicated to exposing "widespread abuse and manipulation by PBMs."

The generics maven lays out his "tchotchkes" strategy for market domination.

Pharmacists are in a unique position to educate patients on how to decrease their cardiovascular risk.

The Pennsylvania Collaborative: Rite-Aid pharmacists are making a difference in Pennsylvania.

Ralph Neas, former president and CEO of the National Coalition on Health Care, has been named the new president and CEO of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association.

For this community pharmacy resident, each day is filled with new challenges and diverse experiences.

For a pharmacy seeking a new niche, a travel clinic can offer a wealth of personalized services to set it apart.

^MTM services are additional to provision of a drug product and include a broad range of pharmacists' activities within the scope of pharmacy practice. ^An example of MTM includes creating a medication treatment plan. ^Another example is monitoring and evaluating a patient's response to therapy.

Approximately a dozen pharmaceutical manufacturers are using light-up, wireless-connected pill bottles to improve medication adherence.

A survey of new Rx, new generic, and new OTC products

Do North Carolina pharmacists REALLY want to work 14 hours straight? If so, that's some work ethic.

When it comes to medication adherence, calendar blister packs have it all over those old-fashioned vials.

An FDA Drug Safety Communication sent to healthcare professionals states that Dasatinib (Sprycel, Bristol-Myers Squibb) may increase the risk of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Seattle-based Bartell Drugs this month launched a fundraising program to benefit local community groups with the introduction of its ?B? Caring Card program.