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Pro Te Solutio - Vol. 5 No. 4 November 2012

In This Issue: - Forecast for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Partly Cloudy - Document Preservation Notices and the Lists of Who Receive Them: Are They Discoverable? - FDA Warning Letters Through...more

Could the Recent Meningitis Outbreak Lead to Litigation?

Pharmaceutical litigation most frequently occurs when drug companies fail to adequately test medications prior to release or fail to properly inform consumers of the potential side effects. In these cases, the drugs are...more

Birmingham Medical News: Compounding Pharmacies Coming Under Greater Scrutiny

With as many as 13,000 patients possibly exposed to fungal meningitis from tainted spinal steroid injections traced to a New England compounding pharmacy, the regulation of compounding pharmacies is once againheating up. The...more

Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy Enacts Emergency Regulations Targeting Compounding Activities and Impacting All Registered and...

The Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy (BOP) enacted emergency regulations effective November 1, 2012, in response to the deadly fungal meningitis outbreak caused by drug contamination at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy....more