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Drugs seized off Cork 'destined for UK market'

Posted: Published on September 17th, 2012

John Alan Brooks, 60, from Blackpool in England, is on trial in Birmingham charged in connection with the seizure of the drugs. Asst Commissioner Tony Quilter this morning told the jury the Irish market for cocaine could not sustain a shipment on this scale. On November 6 2008, in a joint operation involving the Navy, garda and Customs, a Naval Service boarding party from the LE Niamh detained a 65-foot yacht, Dances with Waves, 240km off the Cork coast. The yacht had been tracked by satellite on its journey from the Caribbean. It was carrying 75 bales of cocaine, weighing just over 1.5 tonnes. The three crew members on board the yacht were arrested and charged with possession of the drugs. They were each jailed for ten years in May 2009. Analysis of the cocaine found that it was 70% pure, giving it a street value of 400m, making it the second biggest seizure in the history of the State. Separately, garda had established a joint investigation with the Serious Organised Crime Agency based in London, to track down those behind the shipment. That investigation led to the arrest last November of Mr Brooks. He is now on trial at … Continue reading →

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Mother supplied drugs for her son

Posted: Published on September 17th, 2012

17 September 2012 Last updated at 07:45 ET A mother has appeared in court in Londonderry charged with supplying her son with drugs while he was in Magilligan prison. Brenda Reddy, 42, from Moore Street was released on bail until next month. A police officer told the court the drugs had a street value of 200 but their prison value was 2,000. Ms Reddy faces six charges including possessing and intending to supply ecstasy, and possessing and intending to supply cannabis. A police officer told District Judge Barney McElholm that he believed he could connect the defendant to the charges. He said that on Saturday afternoon police received a call from prison staff at Magilligan stating that they had seen the defendant passing drugs to her son, during a prison visit. The drugs were contained in a tightly-wrapped package to her prisoner son. It was retrieved by the prison staff and the defendant was detained. She was arrested and the police then found a second package containing drugs. Excerpt from: Mother supplied drugs for her son … Continue reading →

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Cialis From Canadian Pharmacy Online

Posted: Published on September 17th, 2012

Por DIONISIO SOLDEVILA SANTO DOMINGO (AP) "En ningn momento agred a nadie ni mucho menos estaba prfugo. Yo me present anoche al cuartel (policial) despus del pleito en la discoteca y esta maana llegu primero a la polica que las mismas personas que estn manejando el caso", dijo Guerrero a The Associated Press en una entrevista telefnica. Aun no se haban radicado cargos en contra de Guerrero, a pesar que el vocero de la polica dominicana, Mximo Bez Aybar, sostuvo que el pelotero agredi a un mayor de la institucin. "El seor Vladimir Guerrero agredi fsicamente al mayor Renato Pea Rojas luego de producirse una ria en una discoteca de Nizao. Le pedimos que se entregue a las autoridades para que su caso sea puesto en manos de la justicia", dijo Bez Aybar a la AP poco antes que Guerrero se entregara. Cuatro personas detenidas fueron detenidas en el incidente ocurrido la noche del lunes, incluyendo el hermano de Guerrero, Julio, que segn Aybar form parte de la gresca en la que result agredido el polica. Guerrero abandon el lugar del altercado en Nizao, a 65 kilmetros al suroeste de Santo Domingo, dijo Aybar. "Todo lo que se est alegando … Continue reading →

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Comprehensive Care Corporation Signs Agreement With WellDyneRx as Part of CompCare's New Pharmacy Savings Center Program

Posted: Published on September 17th, 2012

TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Comprehensive Care Corporation ("CompCare" or the "Company") (OTC BB: CHCR), which provides behavioral health, substance abuse and pharmacy management services, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with WellDyneRx, one of the most prominent pharmacy benefit management companies in the nation, to implement CompCare's newly designed Pharmacy Savings Center Program. CompCare currently manages, on an "at-risk" basis, the prescription drug benefit of a number of its clients' health plans. Under its existing program, CompCare receives a fixed fee, per member per month, in exchange for CompCare assuming the financial risk of paying for the client's members' prescription drugs as well as performing ancillary pharmacy management services. "Over the past year, the Company has been developing an enhanced pharmacy program which would not only expand its pharmacy management services, but also provide us with the ability to guarantee to our clients a pharmacy spend of approximately 10% less than the client spent the previous year," said Clark A. Marcus, Chairman and CEO. "We have now secured certain relationships that allow CompCare to enter into 'at-risk' pharmacy contracts with clients offering per member per month pharmacy costs for our services that are at … Continue reading →

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Tricare pharmacy clients get a reprieve on co-pay hikes

Posted: Published on September 17th, 2012

Published: Monday, September 17, 2012, 12:01 a.m. The 112th Congress has reconvened after a five-week recess, primarily to pass a continuing appropriation resolution that will allow federal departments, including defense, to continue to spend at 2012 budget levels until new funding bills are passed after the Nov. 6 election. The measure that both chambers are expected to approve next week, before lawmakers resume campaigning, would expire March 27. That date, however, does not remove the threat of budget sequestration on Jan. 2 when deep, across-the-board cuts in federal programs are scheduled to take effect unless Republicans and Democrats can cut a major deficit-reduction deal. The measure will allow the House and Senate to delay passing a final defense authorization for fiscal 2013, which begins Oct. 1. And that is where the reprieve occurs for users of the Tricare pharmacy benefit. Both the House and Senate versions of the defense bill block the Obama administration's plan to increase Tricare enrollment fees for military retirees, but they would allow hefty increases in co-pays at Tricare retail pharmacies and through mail order or "home delivery" program. Language in the House bill (HR 4310) is more favorable to beneficiaries, allowing only part of co-pay … Continue reading →

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Rylan heads to China soon

Posted: Published on September 16th, 2012

September 16, 2012 Christine Wood/Staff Writer Five-year-old Rylan Johnstone will be heading to China in just two weeks with his mom and grandma, who hope the stem cell treatments he gets there might cure his blindness. The family leaves on Sept. 23, bound for the Beike Biotech Centre in Guangzhou. During a three-week stay at the centre, Rylan will receive three packets of stem cells by intravenous. Then the family will wait to see what happens. Beike claims the stem cells help the body repair itself, resulting in cures for things like brain injuries, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and optic nerve damage in some patients. It varies. Some people dont see any real improvement while theyre there. Other parents have said their kids suddenly start pointing at something, and they realize its light, Rylans grandma Alison Johnstone said. And its supposed to keep working for up to two years so it varies. Ive heard people whose kids have excelled at everything but sight. So we dont have any expectations, and we know theres that 20 to 25 per cent that really wont see a lot so we have to be prepared for that. But in saying that, if we didnt … Continue reading →

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Harold Maurer: Making it rain for UNMC

Posted: Published on September 16th, 2012

OMAHA -- This is the house that Hal built. Buthe's not done yet. Chancellor Harold Maurer has transformed the University of Nebraska Medical Center into amodern teaching, research andclinical complex, its vibrant campusalive with gleaming new buildings and enhanced academic prowess. And another transformation is rapidly approaching justover the horizon. Maurer will leave his post as chancellorJune 30 after almost 15 years at the helm to join the University of Nebraska Foundation and spearhead fundraising for a $370 million cancer research and treatment center that will lift UNMC into new territory. "It will raise the bar for the whole campus," Maurer said last week during an hourlong interview in his office on a cloudy afternoon that promised more rain than it delivered. "This will transform the campus into a community of outstanding clinicians, scientists and educators," Maurer said. "It will move us from an excellent to an outstanding Medical Center." With state government alreadyhaving pledged$50 million to the project and assurances that the Med Center hospital can assume and rapidly liquidate $120 million in debt, the responsibility for raising the remaining $200 millionrests in Maurer's hands. He is the visionary andbuilder. Go here to see the original: Harold Maurer: Making … Continue reading →

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Alliance Boots to buy £56m stake in China pharmaceutical retailer

Posted: Published on September 16th, 2012

HONG KONG, Sept 16 Alliance Boots, the owner of Europes largest pharmacy chain, will buy a 12 per cent stake in Chinas Nanjing Pharmaceutical Co Ltd for about 56 million (RM273.8 million), Alliance said in a statement today. The deal, initially announced more than a year ago, will strengthen Alliance Boots ties with Chinas government and regulators. Alliance Boots executive chairman Stefano Pessina told Reuters in an interview that China was committed to improving its healthcare sector. Pessina, who turned his familys wholesale pharmaceutical company in Italy into a business empire through a blizzard of mergers and acquisitions, is now eyeing 20-30 per cent of the Chinese pharmaceutical distribution market. In 10 years, I hope we will be one of the major players in China or we will be, together with other companies, part of one of the major players in China, Pessina said. Alliance Boots is 45 per cent owned by US-based Walgreen Co . Shanghai-listed Nanjing is Chinas fifth-largest pharmaceutical wholesaler, with sales of around 20 billion yuan (RM9.5 billion) in 2011, and has a market capitalisation of US$682 million (RM2.1 billion). Nanjing, based in Jiangsu, has distribution centres in 12 cities across eight provinces and one autonomous … Continue reading →

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Alliance Boots to Form a Strategic Alliance with Nanjing Pharmaceutical Company Limited

Posted: Published on September 16th, 2012

NANJING, China, Sept. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Alliance Boots( http://www.allianceboots.com ), under the terms of a strategic alliance agreement signed today, announces that it will acquire a 12% stake in Nanjing Pharmaceutical Company Limited( http://www.njyy.com ), through a private placement, for a total consideration of approximately EUR56 million (RMB560 million). On completion of the transaction, which is subject to various regulatory approvals, Alliance Boots will be the second largest shareholder in Nanjing Pharmaceutical Company Limited with Board and operational management representation. (Photo: http://www.prnasia.com/sa/2012/09/16/20120916190249726236.html ) (Photo: http://www.prnasia.com/sa/2012/09/16/20120916190902623427.html ) (Photo: http://www.prnasia.com/sa/2012/09/16/20120916190917574062.html ) Nanjing Pharmaceutical Company Limited, which is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, is the fifth largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in China with sales of around EUR2 billion (RMB20 billion) in 2011. It has a strong market position in its home province of Jiangsu operating distribution centres in 12 cities across eight provinces and one autonomous region. Its largest shareholder is Nanjing Pharmaceutical Group Limited. The strategic alliance agreement was signed by Stefano Pessina, Executive Chairman, Alliance Boots, and Zhou Yaoping, Chairman, Nanjing Pharmaceutical Company Limited, after being greeted by Yang Weize, Secretary of Nanjing Municipal CPC Committee. The official ceremony, which took place in the city of Nanjing, was held in … Continue reading →

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CORRECTED-Alliance Boots to buy stake in China pharma wholesaler

Posted: Published on September 16th, 2012

(Corrects headline to say investing in a wholesaler, not a retailer) HONG KONG, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Alliance Boots, the owner of Europe (Chicago Options: ^REURUSD - news) 's largest pharmacy chain, will buy a 12 percent stake in China's Nanjing Pharmaceutical Co Ltd for about 56 million pounds ($91 million), Alliance said in a statement on Sunday. The deal, initially announced more than a year ago, will strengthen Alliance Boots' ties with China's government and regulators. Alliance Boots Executive Chairman Stefano Pessina told Reuters in an interview China is committed to improving its healthcare sector. Pessina, who turned his family's wholesale pharmaceutical company in Italy into a business empire through a blizzard of mergers and acquisitions, is now eyeing 20-30 percent of the Chinese pharmaceutical distribution market. "In 10 years, I hope we will be one of the major players in China or we will be, together with other companies, part of one of the major players in China," Pessina said. Alliance Boots is 45 percent owned by U.S.-based Walgreen Co (NYSE: WAG - news) . Shanghai-listed Nanjing is China's fifth-largest pharmaceutical wholesaler, with sales of around 20 billion yuan ($3.2 billion) in 2011, and has a market capitalisation … Continue reading →

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