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New California Law Affects Pharmacy Operations, Staffing Ratios, And Much More

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On October 8, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1286 into law. The new law, sponsored by Assemblymember Matt Haney and the California Board of Pharmacy, aims to reduce medication errors and...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Health Care

California Board of Pharmacy Approves "No Pharmacist Left Alone" Regulations for Retail Pharmacy Chains

In retail pharmacy chain stores, pharmacists are sometimes left alone for long periods of time. Pharmacists at such chains—which are also known as community pharmacies—have also had to perform a number of non-pharmacist...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

How Can Patients Help Avoid Pharmacy Negligence?

Pharmacy Error can be deadly - To err is human; to forgive, divine. – Alexander Pope The phrase sounds perfectly poetic, but when the error occurs at the hands of a pharmacist dispensing the wrong medicine to a patient,...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Is Filling a Prescription Simple? — Pharmacist errors can cost lives

Pharmacy and Pharmacist error - A patient diagnosed with thyroid problems filled a prescription for the drug levothyroxine. It was written by the doctor for 75 micrograms. It was dispensed at 25 micrograms. Months went by...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

FDA Takes Action on Opioids Labeling — It’s about education

Opioid Education - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) crept cautiously closer to curbing the opioid crisis by approving sweeping changes as to how the prescription drugs are labeled. Going forward, such...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Right to Try Law Enacted by Congress: Implementation Unclear

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On May 30, 2018, President Trump signed the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2018. The bill allows the provision of certain unapproved, investigational drugs to patients...more

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Safety Troubles in Hospital Compounding Pharmacies

We wrote yesterday about contamination at the pharmacy of the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda. Other big hospitals, judging by media reports, also may need to look at their pharmacy operations, especially when they compound...more

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