A NEW way for US families to stay close to independent elders that blends modern technology with old fashioned parcel post debuted on crowd-funding website Kickstarter. The system - the brainchild of a startup called Lively - uses ...
Canadian pharmaceutical company Apotex has issued an urgent recall of its birth-control pill Alysena 28 over packaging issue. The company found that instead of three tablets, one lot of the contraceptive may have been packed mistakenly ...
Tags: Packaging Issue, Packaging
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Biogen Idec's Tecfidera (dimethyl fumarate), a new first-line oral capsule for people suffering from relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). Tecfidera reduces relapses and ...
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MeadWestvaco Corp., a global provider of packaging and packaging solutions, today announced that its Avive multiple-medication patient adherence solution received the Compliance Package of the Year award from the Healthcare Compliance ...
Sam's Club, the nation's eighth largest retailer, has launched the Simply Right line of quality and affordable vitamins. Replacing the Sam's Club Member's Mark line, Simply Right vitamins and supplements are part of the overall Simply Right ...
Tags: Sam's Club, Simply Right line, Interactive Vitamin Packaging
Monitoring and measurement through ingestible, implanted, and body-worn wireless sensors can improve healthcare, and if those sensors can support continuous data streaming, more real-time information will be available for analysis. ...
Tags: wireless sensor, healthcare, data streaming
US-based RxMedic Systems will distribute the Eyecon Countertop Counter, marketed by Rx Systems, a company engaged in pharmacy packaging and supplies, as part of a preferred business partner agreement. The automated pill counting system ...
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PA Consulting and Raspberry Pi have selected the finalists of their programming challenge who will present their ideas to six expert judges on 20 March. The competition was intended for school and university students to present ...
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News that Flowers Food has emerged as the "stalking horse" bidder for various Hostess Brands bread brands in the US caught our attention this week. Meanwhile, an entirely different kind of horse got tongues wagging on this side of the pond ...
Tags: Flowers Food, interview, just-food
A change in the shape or color of a drug can make you less likely to take it, according to a new study. It found that people who regularly took generic antiseizure drugs but who were given pills with differing appearances at each refill ...
Tags: drug, medication, generic antiseizure drugs, Internal Medicine
If you take a sleeping medication that contains zolpidem (Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar, Zolpimist, or generic), you could still have levels in your body the next morning that are high enough to impair driving, even if you feel wide awake. ...
Tags: dose, Ambien, insomnia drugs, FDA
A: Until other much-needed changes occur, you should only use a medication from a compounding pharmacy if no other FDA-approved product is available, say our medical advisers. Compounding pharmacies create individual, customized drugs. They ...
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IDG News Service-Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack,Symantec,PayPal and other organizations. On Sunday,a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers,MySQL databases,routers ...
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MIAMI, FL, August 25, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Today, SpiritCube Inc. has reached a milestone and is near completion of its Re-Engineered version of the company website and interface spiritcube. The company announced that it has been ...
Tags: SpiritCube Inc, milestone, Re-Engineered version, Phase Two
Two U.S. agencies have seized 686 websites accused of selling counterfeit and illegal medicines as part of an international crackdown on online sales of fake drugs. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security ...
Tags: U.S.agencies, websites, counterfeit and illegal medicines, online sales