Ron Lanton News Today

Ron Lanton discusses California's Stop Dangerous Pharmacies Act, which aims to address understaffed chain pharmacies and reduce medication errors by implementing new regulations around pharmacy staffing, error reporting, and unsafe working conditions.

California's Stop Dangerous Pharmacies Act aims to improve patient safety by establishing new pharmacy staffing regulations and a medication error reporting system, arising from understaffed conditions.

In this episode, you'll hear a conversation with Ron Lanton, partner at Lanton Law, who gets us up to speed on all of the legal cases surrounding this issue thus far.

Tune in to this episode to gain a comprehensive understanding of the evolving role of pharmacists in Michigan's health care system, the potential benefits for patients, and how this paves the way for other states.

Perhaps the most significant development in the pharmaceutical industry in decades, crops of biosimilars are being approved and are ready for distribution. What lies next, in terms of legislation and the impact on pharmacists, remains to be seen.

The approval of norgestrel tablets (Opill) could open the door to other prescription-to-OTC contraceptive switches, although that remains to be seen as other pharmaceutical companies weigh their options.

Although this should be a relatively routine process, the national conversations around abortion and contraception have brought more attention to the decision.

Following 2 opposing decisions from judges in Texas and Washington State, Lanton said the issue is back in the Supreme Court.