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Hospitals: Do You Know Where Your Controlled Substances Are?

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Houck — Employee diversion of controlled substances from hospitals has been an issue since at least 1986 when I became a diversion investigator with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”). DEA alleged that UMHS failed to maintain complete and accurate records and failed to timely notify DEA of controlled substance thefts.

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Harness the PharmD Power to be a Rockstar Engineer

The Nontraditional Pharmacist

So I recently graduated in May of 2018 from VCU School of Pharmacy in Virginia and I work for a company called Kit Check, which is a Health I.T. So in hospitals the current methods of drug diversion detection is a really manual process which requires a lot of sifting through large volumes of data from different systems.

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 1)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

2018) , Arnold Partnership v. The PTO’s not-even-specious-argument, citing what certainly appears to us to be absolutely irrelevant case law, such as Novartis AG v. Ezra Ventures LLC, 909 F.3d 3d 1367 (Fed. Rogan , 246 F. 2d 460 (E.D. 2003) , and Biogen lnt’l v. Banner Life Sciences LLC, 956 F.3d 3d 1351 (Fed. Patent Nos.