Mississippi Business Journal » pharmacist http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Druggists pushing for limits on filling insured prescriptions http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/09/druggists-pushing-for-limits-on-filling-insured-prescriptions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=druggists-pushing-for-limits-on-filling-insured-prescriptions http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/09/druggists-pushing-for-limits-on-filling-insured-prescriptions/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:04:20 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=67884 JACKSON — Pharmacists want Mississippi lawmakers to force an end to limits on where people covered by certain insurance plans can get prescriptions filled. However, lobbyists for some pharmacy benefit managers say the state can’t legally regulate certain insurance plans because they’re covered by federal law. The two sides squared off Tuesday in a House [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/09/druggists-pushing-for-limits-on-filling-insured-prescriptions/feed/ 1 Late alumna Sciacca endows scholarship at UM School of Pharmacy http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/12/late-alumna-sciacca-endows-scholarship-at-um-school-of-pharmacy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=late-alumna-sciacca-endows-scholarship-at-um-school-of-pharmacy http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/12/late-alumna-sciacca-endows-scholarship-at-um-school-of-pharmacy/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:21:18 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=55659 OXFORD — The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy is offering a new scholarship thanks to the generosity of the late Madeline O. Sciacca of Slidell, La., who remembered her alma mater in her will. Sciacca, who obtained her pharmacy degree from UM in 1953, left $400,000 to the Ole Miss School of Pharmacy to [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/12/late-alumna-sciacca-endows-scholarship-at-um-school-of-pharmacy/feed/ 0 Former Oxford Mayor Leslie to be buried tomorrow http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/26/former-oxford-mayor-leslie-to-be-buried-tomorrow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=former-oxford-mayor-leslie-to-be-buried-tomorrow http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/26/former-oxford-mayor-leslie-to-be-buried-tomorrow/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:29:58 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=54736 OXFORD — Gravesite services are scheduled tomorrow for John Leslie, the former longtime mayor of Oxford, who died Saturday at the Mississippi Veterans Home in Oxford. He was 88. Leslie served six terms as mayor and worked as a pharmacist in Oxford for 38 years. Officials with Waller Funeral Homes said today that a graveside [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/26/former-oxford-mayor-leslie-to-be-buried-tomorrow/feed/ 0 Pharmacist found guilty of conducting ‘pill mill’ http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/06/10/pharmacist-found-guilty-of-conducting-pill-mill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pharmacist-found-guilty-of-conducting-pill-mill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/06/10/pharmacist-found-guilty-of-conducting-pill-mill/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:05:44 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=25311 GULFPORT — A federal jury has found pharmacist Nick Tran guilty on all 24 counts in his second trial on allegations of conspiring to dispense controlled substances outside the scope of professional practice. U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. yesterday ordered marshals to take the 42-year-old Tran into custody. The Sun Herald reports the judge [...]

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