FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

AUGUST 9, 2023

Houck — If a patient presents a paper prescription for a controlled substance to a pharmacy and the pharmacy cannot fill it, the patient can take that prescription to another pharmacy. Instead, the patient must request that the prescriber send a new prescription to a different pharmacy. By Larry K. 48365, 48369 (July 27, 2023).

Controlled Substances 52

Controlled Substances Documentation Communication 52

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

JANUARY 31, 2024

provided prescribers with the option to use e-prescriptions for controlled substances (CS) based on an interim final rule published in 2010. Since this rule became effective, a majority of states now require e-prescriptions for at least some medications. E-prescriptions contain sensitive patient data.

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Prescription Filling Controlled Substances 84

RX Note

JULY 15, 2023

In other words, medication history taking by pharmacists helps to retrieve missing information with regard to prescription medications which the patient is currently on, information on past drug history as well as self-medication. oral contraceptive pill , regular OTC medicines or herbal medicines ).

Hospitals 52

Hospitals 52

RX Note

MARCH 28, 2024

Psychotropic Substance Posession Control of Import and Export Prescription Register Storage Disposal Psychotropic Substance Psychotropic Substance is anything found in Third Schedule of the Poisons Act 1952.

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Dosage Hospitals Packaging Documentation 40

Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 6, 2023

The preparation of a semi-solid dosage form – from formulation and development, to scale-up, commercial manufacturing, and packaging – should ideally take place under one roof in a contiguous, end-to-end workflow to avoid unnecessary equipment and process changes. Simplicity matters. Optimising development and scale-up.

Dosage 52

Dosage Packaging Communication 52

epicur

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This new guidance, Guidance for Industry #256 (GFI 256), affects both office stock in veterinary practices and individual animal-patient prescriptions. Individual patient prescriptions : This is not as restrictive but does put a documentation burden on veterinarians and pharmacists if the drug is a copy of an FDA-approved or indexed drug.

Compounding 52

Compounding Compounding Pharmacies Documentation Dosage 52

pharmaphorum

JUNE 22, 2021

The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care has published a document setting out its strategy on handling patient data – and defending its plan to transfer millions of GP records into a centralised database.

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Documentation Health and Personal Care Stores Medical Records Communication 52