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Drug Discard Date Creates Discord

The People's Pharmacy

The parties that benefit are the pharmaceutical companies and the pharmacies. The losers are patients, insurance companies and the country as a whole for wasting money on unneeded things. It is rare for pharmacies to put the expiration date on the label if they transfer the pills from the manufacturer’s original container.

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CMO Moves: Regulatory catalysts for drug manufacturing-April

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical companies regularly outsource different steps of drug manufacturing processes like parenteral manufacturing and packaging, solid dose, and small molecule or biologic active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) production, among others. This was the first non-stimulant drug approved for ADHD in over a decade.

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RFID: The future of smart labelling?

Pharmaceutical Technology

Fresenius Kabi is a global healthcare company specialising in medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition. In August of 2022, Fresenius Kabi announced a three-year plan to add GS1 Data Matrix barcodes, also known as 2D barcodes, to its US pharmaceutical portfolio.

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Eliquis generic availability, cost, and dosage

The Checkup by Singlecare

As of 2020, it was the 48th most popularly prescribed medication in the United States, with over 3 million Americans filling almost 14 million Eliquis prescriptions. The FDA approved two applications for generic versions of Eliquis by the companies Micro Labs Limited and Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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Tagamet for Warts and Shingles!

The People's Pharmacy

According to my European colleagues it is prescribed off-label for this purpose. We first wrote about cimetidine for shingles in 2020. A reader of this column notified us several years ago that his medical colleagues in Europe prescribed cimetidine off label to treat shingles and z oster- a ssociated p ain ( ZAP ).

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Cancer vaccines: providing the edge in oncology

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Closely related to this is the fact that global spending on oncology drugs reached $164 billion in 2020, with drug sales growing at a compound annual growth rate of 14.3% The oncology segment has been recognised as one of the most productive areas for pharmaceutical companies to focus their R&D investment.

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Rising Demand for Pharmaceutical Secondary Packaging Providers

Roots Analysis

Specifically, pharmaceutical secondary packaging is a vital step in the product supply chain as it encloses life-saving drugs and therapies, preserving the identity, quality, integrity and stability of the packaged drug product. [1] 3] Some of the advantages offered by pharmaceutical secondary packaging have been depicted below.