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AP IMPACT: Big Pharma cashes in on HGH abuse

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 21st

By DAVID B. CARUSO and JEFF DONNAssociated Press A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, an Associated Press investigation

FDA chief renews push for specialty pharmacy rules

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 19th

By MATTHEW PERRONEAP Health Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - The head of the Food and Drug Administration renewed her push Wednesday for new laws to help police pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak, even as members of Congress expressed little interest in cooperating

FDA chief renews push for specialty pharmacy rules

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 19th

Fiscal cliff ads pick up where campaign stopped

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 7th

By By HENRY C. JACKSONAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Debate over the "fiscal cliff" has money pouring into television, print, radio and online ads, picking up where the wall-to-wall election campaign left off. As Republicans and the White House joust over a way around big year-end tax

Meningitis victims can likely inspect pharmacy

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By DENISE LAVOIEAP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) - Victims of a meningitis outbreak tied to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy will likely be allowed to do an exhaustive inspection of the facility, a federal judge said Thursday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jennifer Boal said she is inclined

NYC doctor charged with manslaughter in OD deaths

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By TOM HAYSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A doctor at a New York City pain clinic - already accused of writing prescriptions for a man convicted in a fatal pharmacy holdup - pleaded not guilty Thursday to manslaughter charges alleging that he caused the overdose deaths of two other

UPDATE: Rite Aid Pharmacy Robbed In North Spokane; Who Is This?

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

UPDATE: Photos of a man who robbed the Rite Aid pharmacy on Tuesday night have been sent to KHQ. He's described as a WM, 20's-30's, heavy build, wearing green gloves and a black sweatshirt. Police believe that this suspect might also be responsible for the Walgreens Pharmacy

UPDATE: Rite Aid Pharmacy Robbed In North Spokane; Who Is This?

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

Correction: Meth-Prescription story

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

ST. LOUIS (AP) - In a story Dec. 4 about the sale of a decongestant that contains what its manufacturer says is a new form of pseudoephedrine that can't be used to make methamphetamine, The Associated Press misidentified the DEA. It is the Drug Enforcement Administration, not the Drug

Consumer watchdog asks FDA to revisit compounders

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 29th

WASHINGTON (AP) - A government watchdog group is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to re-inspect more than a dozen specialty pharmacies with prior records of violations, in light of a recent deadly outbreak tied to compounded drugs. Contaminated pain injections from a Massachusetts