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WELWYN GARDEN CITY, England and BOSTON, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Heptares Therapeutics, the leading GPCR drug discovery and development company, is pleased to announce that it has engaged Mr Akira Usui as a Consultant to augment the Company's business development capabilities in Japan and other Asian territories. Mr Usui has more than 15 years of experience in business development, licensing and alliance management in the pharmaceutical industry including senior...

DURHAM, N.C., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Parata Systems, a leader in pharmacy automation, announced today it has been recognized by Today's Caregiver magazine as a 2013 "Caregiver Friendly(®) Award" recipient. The awards recognize products, services, books and media created with the needs of caregivers in mind. Parata was recognized in the "Products" category for its Parata PASS(TM) (patient adherence strip system) packaging. Parata PASS organizes medications into a strip of unit-...

Blue Cross Settles Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination, Threats to Health & Privacy SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Anthem Blue Cross patients with HIV/AIDS may "opt-out" of a program that would have required them to obtain their medications by mail order under a settlement announced today by Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas LLC. The lawsuit, filed in January in San Diego Superior Court, alleged that Blue Cross's mandatory mail order program announced...

BALTIMORE, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameritox, the nation's leader in pain medication monitoring, has been selected by Progressive Medical, Inc. to become part of its Urine Drug Monitoring (UDM) network to help clients manage pharmacy costs and improve the clinical outcomes for injured workers. Progressive Medical, a leading pharmacy benefit manager in the workers' compensation industry, has used UDM in its overall medication compliance and pain management strategy for several...

SAN DIEGO, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MedVantx, Inc., the company that has pioneered a unique direct to consumer pharmaceutical distribution channel announced today the Company has completed a major expansion of its home delivery platform to manage $1.5B in pharmaceutical products and the upgrade of its systems to offer a level of quality akin to cGMP facilities in its specialty home delivery pharmacy in Sioux Falls, SD. The Company provides leading pharmaceutical manufacturers,...

Advanced patient communication technology helps providers improve patients’ drug adherence. (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Poor adherence to appropriate medication therapy has been shown to result in not only medical complications and death (some 125,000 deaths in the U.S. every year are attributed to drug non-adherence), but increased health-care costs. It’s been estimated that between 33% and 69% of all medication-related hospital admissions are related to poor medication adherence — a...

Inmar, a company that operates collaborative commerce networks, announced that Ned Finn, Vice President, Inmar Pharmacy Services, will present a session on Pharmacy Profitability at the FMI Health and Wellness Conference, May 29 - June 1 in San Antonio, TX. The session will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, May 30. Winston-Salem, NC (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Inmar, a company that operates collaborative commerce networks, announced that Ned Finn, Vice President, Inmar Pharmacy Services, will...

Transparent information on the evidence supporting global recommendations on pediatric medicines should be easily accessible in order to help policy makers decides on what drugs to include in their national drug lists, according to international experts from Ghana and the UK writing in this week's PLOS Medicine. The authors, led by David Sinclair from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, report the experiences of the Ghana National Drugs Programme as it reviewed the international...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Moderna Therapeutics, the pioneering company developing messenger RNA therapeutics(TM), a revolutionary new treatment modality to enable the in vivo production of therapeutic proteins, announced today that John Reynders will join Moderna in early July as its first Chief Information Officer. Reynders is a proven leader in the design and implementation of information systems underlying all phases of drug development, from discovery to...

DALLAS, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- MarketReportsOnline.com announces addition of new market research report "China Pharmaceutical Guidebook Series (4) 2013 Edition Material and Clinical Trial Requirements of Application and Approval for Imported Drug Registration: A Guidebook of Registration Application for Imported Traditional Chinese Medicines and Natural Medicines" to its online database. The traditional medicines in Orient, especially, the traditional Chinese medicines...