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				<title>Obama seeks to strengthen supply chain security, protect US intellectual property</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=26463</link>
    	                <description>But will anti-terrorism concerns trump commercial interests?

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				<title>New York State considers real-time reporting of controlled-substances prescribing</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=26468</link>
    	                <description>Aim is to reduce 'doctor shopping' for prescriptions, and to better monitor patients and addicts' health; potential system highlights data availability</description>
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				<title>Verify Brand re-enters life-sciences serialization market with dedicated software offering</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=26465</link>
    	                <description>Company is bringing its expertise from outside life sciences
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				<title>Specialty pharma contracting provider makes prior authorization paperwork easy</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2671</link>
    	                <description>Armada Health Care streamlines prior auth with free ApproveRx service . . .</description>
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				<title>HDMA updates its barcode guidance for wholesaler members</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2673</link>
    	                <description>New guidelines prepare for eventual item-level serialization, while embodying FDA guidance for barcoded hospital-supply products . . .</description>
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				<title>California biotech CEOs want: more money; less FDA regulation</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2660</link>
    	                <description>Preview of annual PwC survey finds that disease foundations and NGOs are a growing part of biotech investment</description>
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				<title>IMS Health/SDI integration is essentially approved by FTC; Thomson Reuters reassesses divestiture</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2662</link>
    	                <description>More reshuffling of healthcare-analytics market is in store . . .</description>
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				<title>FDA offers draft guidance on unsolicited requests for off-label drug information</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=26442</link>
    	                <description>The basic principle is: say as little as possible in public--and document what is said privately . . .</description>
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				<title>FDA achieves part of its 'class wide' REMS for immediate-release fentanyl</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=26462</link>
    	                <description>Manufacturers will share a common access program . . .</description>
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				<title>Marken formally opens new clinical-distribution service depot in Buenos Aires</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2643</link>
    	                <description>Plans to continue expanding in Europe, Asia and Americas . . .</description>
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				<title>iMany offers Medicare Part D module for its contract-administration software suite</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2641</link>
    	                <description>'Pay and chase' provisions require manufacturers to pay claims first, then reconcile disputes over charges . . .</description>
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				<title>FDA approval and inspection process mostly protected American patients from allegedly defective French breast implants</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2639</link>
    	                <description>A 'media frenzy' is ramping up in France and other countries over health authorities' call for remedial action; meanwhile, US Congress looks at increased review of medical devices . . .</description>
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				<title>CMS issues Sunshine Act</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2630</link>
    	                <description>Proposed rules are sure to generate intense industry feedback . . .</description>
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				<title>More actions by GPhA and Obama Administration to address drug shortages</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2632</link>
    	                <description>GPHA proposes a central data clearinghouse on drug supplies; will wholesalers participate?</description>
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				<title>Cold Chain Technologies extends ambient-temperature packaging line</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2637</link>
    	                <description>Offers alternative to thermal blankets . . .</description>
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				<title>ValueCentric and Walgreens sign agreement to make store-level data available to manufacturers</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2622</link>
    	                <description>New channel data access could overcome the problem of 'blinded'  pharmaceutical sales data . . .</description>
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				<title>UPS Healthcare Logistics adds to network with an Italian acquisition</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2624</link>
    	                <description>Purchase of Pieffe Group, combined with new facility launches, brings UPS capacity nearly to 5 million sq.ft. worldwide; more expected in 2012 . . .</description>
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				<title>Gartner 2011 Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 puts Cardinal Health at No. 1</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2626</link>
    	                <description>Analysis combines financial and operational performance, and industry reputation, among manufacturers, distributors and healthcare systems . . .</description>
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				<title>Ameritox proposes ongoing monitoring for pain patients, with a validated comparative database</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2628</link>
    	                <description>Latest study validates an observational database as a measure across disparate geographies . . .</description>
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				<title>GHX updates progress on a prototype data exchange for track-and-trace</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2614</link>
    	                <description>E-commerce hub is soliciting more pharma participants to evaluate data-exchange protocols . . .</description>
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				<title>Battle lines draw up between PBMs and manufacturers who use copay coupons</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2616</link>
    	                <description>PCMA study estimates additional $32 billion in added healthcare costs through 2021; coupons 'lure consumers to switch from generics to expensive brands'. . .</description>
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				<title>AcuTemp builds out a global cold-chain distribution network</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2618</link>
    	                <description>Supplier of active and passive containers lines up regional providers in Asia, Middle East and South America . . .</description>
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				<title>IMS Health weighs in with its analysis of drug shortages</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2620</link>
    	                <description>Production volumes are actually up for some short-supply drugs, indicating a disconnect between manufacturers and the marketplace. Meanwhile, NCPD fights 'price gouging' claim . . .</description>
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				<title>No major reaction to Obama drug-shortage executive order</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2588</link>
    	                <description>Plan to address worsening drug-shortage sitaution has not spurred legislative activity</description>
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				<title>100% international air cargo screening is on hold, for now</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2590</link>
    	                <description>Congressmen send a letter to TSA seeking an explanation for the delay. . .</description>
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				<title>Where does the public go for flu info?</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2594</link>
    	                <description>ComScore analysis finds CDC.gov highest-ranking site . . .</description>
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				<title>AmerisourceBergen proposes a new approach to serialization</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2576</link>
    	                <description>Tracking at the lot- rather than the item-level could address many security and tracking goals . . .</description>
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				<title>Business-to-business publisher offers online contact to physicians that have diagnostics services</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2578</link>
    	                <description>Online medical-diagnostics catalogues will have links to live pharma rep interactions</description>
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				<title>Jazz Pharmaceutical's Xyrem drug has adverse-events, REMS problems</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2579</link>
    	                <description>Company points finger at its specialty pharmacy for unreported deaths, but still gets hit with a Form 483</description>
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				<title>HDMA distributor sales are up 4.6%, to $274.5 billion through 2010</title>
						<link>/latest_news?articleid=2582</link>
    	                <description>New edition of HDMA Factbook sees growth in generics, and the beginning of a slide in branded-drug revenues . . .</description>
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