Grain of, er, salt

Conventional wisdom says that too much salt isn’t good for your heart. But the actual data? It’s not nearly as clear.

This is why what you do is important

Texas law doesn’t allow pharmacists to give flu shots. One doctor had to wait more than two weeks to get his son a shot — and it was too long.

NDC countdown

Did you know the FDA is running out of NDC numbers? It’s holding a meeting to figure out what to do about it. (No worries: It has at least a decade, and it’s well aware of the pace of government change.)

No backsies

The drug industry is fighting to repeal a bipartisan law passed just this year — it mandates they give larger discounts to Medicare patients who fall into the “doughnut hole.”

The word to note is “could”

“Kroger could consider selling pharmacy business after Walgreens deal”

Do they have the bendy kind? With stripes?

How do you deliver precise medication doses to individual cells? How about nanoscale straws?

[Researchers] successfully delivered molecules into three human cell types as well as mouse brain cells, all of which had proved difficult to work with in the past.

What’s more, the method was more precise, faster, and safer than other methods. The nanostraw technique took just 20 seconds to deliver molecules to cells, compared with days for some methods, and killed fewer than 10 percent of cells, a vast improvement over standard electroporation.

There, there

Let’s all send thoughts of encouragement to AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot, who bemoans the fact that he’s the lowest-paid pharma CEO in “the whole industry.”

“You know, it is annoying to some extent. But at the end of the day, it is what it is. I’m not going to complain, but me and Emma (Walmsley, chief executive of Glaxo Smith Kline) are the lowest-paid in Europe and the US.”