Community pharmacies must do more than dispense pills

The pharmaceutical community claims an imbalance in government regulation of drug pricing. However, the state limits the profits of pharmacies, but does not control the profits of manufacturers, which make up most of the cost of medicines.

Pharmaceutical by profession, Marcelo Peretta harshly criticized the current price of medicines, which he described as “three times more expensive than in Chile and twelve times more than in Bolivia,” and pointed out the collusion between laboratories and politics as one of the central causes. “There is an illicit association between the laboratories that finance the parties. Our space is forbidden to receive contributions from the pharmaceutica…

Community pharmacies must do more than dispense pills

Pharmacist Ed Ullmann, owner of WellnessRx in Phoenicia. (Photos by Rokosz Most) Drugs. Obtaining them, running out of them, stockpiling them. Worrying about the cost of them. Worrying about the loss of them. Somewhere among the alchemist, witch doctor, medicine-woman and chemist stands the pharmacist- the apothecary in a white lab coat. The medication expert who dispenses the drugs and keeps them locked up in a bank vault. Pharmacology has been…

The pharmaceutical community claims an imbalance in the state regulation of drug pricing. However, the state limits the revenues of pharmacies, but does not control the revenues of manufacturers, which account for most of the cost of medicines. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the comment of the head of the “All-Ukrainian Association “Nikolaev Pharmaceutical Association Pharmrad” Elena Prudnikova. “Moreover, the state now regul…