On May 13, 2020, Paul R. Rodríguez, New Jersey’s Acting Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs, issued an Administrative Order permitting licensed pharmacists in New Jersey to order and administer testing for COVID-19....more
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have announced an array of guidance to combat the spread of COVID-19 and ease provider regulatory...more
On April 15, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated its three hand sanitizer guidance documents to address the use of fuel- and technical-grade ethanol as an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in hand...more
As the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is expected to reach its apex in several states over the next two weeks, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has issued new guidance authorizing licensed pharmacists to...more
Philip Murphy, governor of New Jersey, signed Executive Order No. 112 on April 1, 2020, authorizing the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs (the DCA) to temporarily reactivate the licenses of recently retired health care...more
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Although some distilleries have tried to pitch in to produce hand sanitizer in the wake of a national shortage caused by the coronavirus public health emergency, hand sanitizers are actually...more
In response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) supplemented its guidance to dialysis facilities on March 10, 2020, to provide guidance regarding infection control to...more