The FDA has warned Amgen that a promotional video for its colorectal cancer drug Vectibix (panitumumab) is false or misleading because it omitted risk information and the drug’s limitations of use, according to an Aug. 12 warning letter posted to…

Five Massachusetts hospitals sued Eli Lilly on Oct. 27, alleging the drugmaker unlawfully cut off their 340B discounts after they refused to provide patient claims data, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of…

Columbia, Mo.-based MU Health Care has signed an agreement to acquire Summit Pharmacy in Holts Summit, Mo., with the transaction expected to be finalized in December. Upon completion, Summit Pharmacy will become the 12th community pharmacy in the Mizzou Pharmacy…

The FDA has approved Pfizer’s talazoparib (Talzenna) in combination with enzalutamide for adults with metastatic androgen pathway modulation-naïve or -sensitive prostate cancer with homologous recombination repair gene mutations. The approval was based on the TALAPRO-3 trial of 599 patients, according…

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Eli Lilly directing the drugmaker to stop imposing what her office called unlawful conditions on Missouri hospitals in the 340B Drug Pricing Program. The letter orders Lilly to end…

Miami-based UHealth, the University of Miami Health System, has entered into a working arrangement with Longitude Rx to support its specialty pharmacy program. Longitude Rx will provide support services, drawing on its specialty pharmacy expertise, technology and health system-focused model,…

AstraZeneca is building out a portfolio of targeted cancer drugs, and the first pivotal readout from its wholly owned antibody-drug conjugates is a win: sonesitatug vedotin (Sone-Ve) reduced the risk of death by 42% in previously treated advanced gastric cancer…

The shortages of generic chemotherapy drugs that began this spring have outlasted every resupply estimate drugmakers have given, and one major manufacturer now expects disruptions to last into 2028. Four drugs were in short supply in June. By October, the…

Pharmacist pay swings by tens of thousands of dollars depending on the state. Technician pay is lower and depends heavily on local cost of living. Meanwhile, the jobs themselves are shifting out of retail and into hospitals, where pay tends…

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue’s Postgraduate Year One Pharmacy Residency Program has received an eight-year accreditation from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the organization’s full accreditation term. The accreditation extends through 2034, according to an Oct. 23…