Thursday, November 3, 2016

Yale vs Harvard infections, pranks and more. This is an oldie, but goodie in terms of silliness.

http://gomerblog.com/2016/05/patient-in-room-213-worried-after-code-blues-in-211-212-214-215/

In other news MD Anderson is expanding from Houston, to take care of cancer patients in San Antonio. How? Mergers and acquisitions.  Read more in the San Antonio Express.

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Fewer military/retirees using cvs?

When CVS leaves the network, beneficiaries currently using Coram/CVS to fill their prescription will need to switch their prescription to another speciality network pharmacy," Tricare officials told Military.com. Officials said Kroger, which is a current retail pharmacy provider, as well as Walgreens will both become speciality network pharmacies starting Dec. 1, and may carry the medications previously supplied by Coram.

Friday, September 9, 2016

http://m.alexandriagazette.com/news/2016/may/18/commentary-who-my-neighbor/

The executive director says he helped a homeless lady become a pharmacist, but there is not much else about the lady's story.

Here's another article on the charity itself. While it also has a mother, no mention is made of pharmacy school.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/with-her-daughter-sick-and-her-husband-gone-a-mom-turns-to-homestretch-for-help/2014/12/23/dff09110-8a0e-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Think you're obese? There was a person in the UK who can outweigh you.......

World’s Heaviest Teenager’ Finally Walks After Dropping 700 Lbs.

At his highest weight, Khaled Mohsen Al Shaeri weighed 1,345 lbs. and hadn’t left his bed for three years. In 2013, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia ordered that he be hospitalized for treatment. Since then, Shaeri — now in his early 20s — has lost 700 pounds, and a new video, posted to YouTube Tuesday (garnering almost 48,000 views), shows him walking for the first time in years. 

Thursday, August 25, 2016

It's mylan, not maylan. Well, even the Washington post makes mistakes.

"This is the same year Maylan bought the rights to EpiPen."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/24/how-a-senators-daughter-became-ceo-of-the-company-at-the-center-of-the-epipen-controversy/?postshare=8231472131004263&tid=ss_fb

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

https://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-personalized-pill-box

5 for 1 or 9.99 for two.

Monday, August 15, 2016

From the daily mail on rio pool's....

A large proportion of children fail to reach adulthood without encountering a floating faeces during a pool visit, but Reddit user Costco1L's experience was more traumatic than many.
They said: 'I was at a golf club pool [when] someone doodied in it and then the former soldier who was suffering from mental health problems who was cleaning the pool grabbed it and took a bite. 
'I fainted as soon as he bit it