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Dispensing Pharmacy Packaging Machines: COVID-19 Impact

Pharma Mirror

The ability to repackage and bar code drugs to the unit of usage is becoming increasingly necessary in health-system pharmacies. Benefits for pharmacies that invest in a high-throughput unit dose packing machine include improved productivity and management of bar-coded medicine stock.

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Are digital pharmacies the answer?

World of DTC Marketing

Digital pharmacies seem to be springing up everywhere. It’s convenient for most but having a CVS pharmacy on almost every street corner allows patients to use drive-throughs to pick up their medications. CVS is competing against several start-up pharmacies that have no physical locations.

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Leading commercial packaging companies in contract marketing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Packaging plays a vital role in maintaining the quality, safety, user-friendliness and marketability of drugs and other pharmaceutical products. Finding the best commercial packaging suppliers in contract marketing. Pharmaceutical packaging formats and materials. Pharmaceutical packaging formats and materials.

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What to Look for in a Pharmaceutical Packaging Company

Pharma Packaging Solutions

Pharmaceutical packaging companies play a critical role in the pharmaceutical industry. Thus, choosing a packaging company to partner with is a very important decision. When evaluating a pharmaceutical packaging company, your first order of business should be determining whether it has the capabilities to meet your specific needs.

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Experts: Underuse of COVID-19 drug Paxlovid shortchanging patients

Medical Xpress

Ira Katz bustles at his pharmacy in Atlanta's Little Five Points neighborhood this cough season, serving patients who need medicine for respiratory viruses like COVID-19. He dispenses occasional packages of Paxlovid, a drug designed to nip COVID in the bud.

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AvKARE Recall: Erectile Dysfunction Drug and Antidepressant Mistakenly Packaged Together

XTalks

AvKARE, a generics pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Pulaski, Tennessee, has issued a recall on one lot each of its sildenafil 100 mg tablets and trazodone 100 mg tablets due to a packaging “mix-up” in which both drugs were filled into the same bottle. AvKARE said the mispackaged drugs were distributed nationwide.

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Indian pharma sees immense importance in US FDA guidance on aluminum content and labelling in parenteral nutrition

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Indian pharma sees immense value in US FDA’s insistence for aluminum content and labelling recommendations for the Small Volume Parenterals Drug Products and Pharmacy Bulk Packages. Pharma companies in the country have increasingly made a shift to nutritional based prescription and over the counter products.

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