article thumbnail

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.

Pharmacy 245
article thumbnail

Warning of counterfeit ivermectin tablets sold via social media

Sciensano

In 2021, a total of 12 529 counterfeit ivermectin tablets originating from postal packages were seized. These tablets are regularly found in postal packages to this day. In 2021, a total of 12 529 counterfeit ivermectin tablets originating from postal packages were seized. Do you have doubts about a website or a medicine?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Digital health player UpHealth swells with three-way merger

pharmaphorum

The three-way deal combines UpHealth – which provides patient care management, telemedicine and digital pharmacy services and gives its name to the new group – with CloudBreak, which provides a video consultation platform for doctors and patients.

article thumbnail

Lipid nanoparticles and mRNA used to treat hereditary blindness

Drug Discovery World

Oregon State University College of Pharmacy scientists have shown that lipid nanoparticles and messenger RNA could treat blindness associated with a rare genetic condition. . AAV has limited packaging capacity compared to LNPs and it can prompt an immune system response,” Sahay said. “It

article thumbnail

How to Reduce Your Chance of Medication Errors

Triage Cancer

Also, pharmacists can select the wrong medication or wrong dosage due to confusion over drugs with similar names or look-alike packaging. Share this list with your doctors – they often don’t know what other doctors prescribe. Tell your doctors about any medication-related allergies and/or side effects.

Nurses 97
article thumbnail

When FDA-Approved Generics Fail: Brand Wellbutrin XL Antidepressant is Cheaper from Canada

Pharmacy Checkers

Joe and Teresa Graedon, founders of The People’s Pharmacy , not only have an admirable track record of telling health consumers how it is, but also listening to those in their readership. I have reported this to the FDA and will be seeing my doctor this week. pharmacies is manufactured and sold in Canada as well.

article thumbnail

Healthcare is about profits, not patients

World of DTC Marketing

“Every day, I wonder if I’m going to call into my manager’s office and offered a package because I earn so much,” she told me. Pharmacy schools are turning out thousands of pharmacists who earn a lot less than pharmacists who have to work at hospitals for years. It’s happening in pharma as well.

Nurses 188