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The 20 Key Moments in the 340B Program's 30-Year History

Omnicell

Interestingly, the 340B law was actually included in a veterans healthcare bill (the Veterans Health Care Act) that also established a separate drug pricing program for veterans hospitals. It also raised the DSH payment cap for some rural and small urban hospitals to 12%. 2006: Congress passed, and President George W.

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Securing every dose with an edible security technology for safe medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

Second, pharmaceutical companies can implement serialisation of individual medicines, potentially tracking and tracing medicines to ensure brand protection. Third, hospital pharmacies can have more efficient management of drug procurement, distribution and dispensing to hospital inpatients and outpatients. References.

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Country focus: China & APAC’s growing medical needs bring opportunities and challenges

pharmaphorum

At the same time, lots of people with experience at multinational pharmaceutical companies have chosen to return home. All these factors will support the growth of in-house R&D-driven pharmaceutical companies and bring more innovative drugs to Asian markets.”.

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RFID: The future of smart labelling?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical industry began using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in the early 2000s. Pfizer was the first to use the tech, adding RFID tags to track a Viagra (sildenafil) shipment circa 2006. As computing has developed in the past decade, so has the potential to store and use information in the cloud.

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Drug development and working with specialised Rare Disease networks

pharmaphorum

There has been progress in this area in recent years, with both the European Union (EU), through Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006 , and the US, through the Orphan Drug Act , enacting legislation to encourage the development of therapies for Rare Diseases. Headway being made.

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Insights+: An Analysis of the Growth of Biopharma Companies in the Last 20 Years (2003-2022)

PharmaShots

model is a holistic approach to incorporate the same strategy to life science and pharmaceutical companies. A globally fast-growing, and largest pharmaceutical company in the world was created through a merger between Pfizer and Pharmacia. by the sales of Humira 2006 Johnson & Johnson recorded global sales of $53.3B

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Exclusive Coverage: Global PHT Expo & Summit 2023

PharmaShots

The speakers shared their views on the topic: Dr. Jagadeesh Babu Rangisetty- “COVID has taught us so many things and the pharmaceutical company has gone through a lot of challenges and at the same time opportunities. According to me the main issue faced during the pandemic was the supply chain of pharmaceuticals.