Optum Rx, UnitedHealth Group's pharmacy benefit management company, unveiled a new pricing trend May 20 — following an industrywide trend of increasing transparency on medication costs. 

The FDA granted approval to Biocon Biologics' drug Yesafili and Samsung Bioepis and Biogen's drug Opuviz, the agency announced May 20. The two drugs are biosimilars for Eylea, an injection made by Regeneron that is used to treat wet age-related…

Within 90 days, Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White will close its pharmacy in Temple, Texas, a spokesperson confirmed with Becker's May 20. 

After hundreds of Kaiser Permanente pharmacy and imaging workers went on strike in late 2023, the health system reached an agreement with UFCW Local 555, a union spokesperson confirmed with Becker's May 20. 

On May 17, about 70 pharmacists and advocates protested outside an Express Scripts headquarters, according to a St. Louis Post Dispatch report. 

AstraZeneca has been ordered to pay $107.5 million to Pfizer in damages for infringing Pfizer's patents, Reuter's reported May 17.

Across nine states and Washington, D.C., some Ascension pharmacies cannot fill prescriptions as the St. Louis-based health system works to recover from a May 8 cyberattack. 

Amgen's Imdelltra is the first and only T-cell engager therapy approved for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, an aggressive, stubborn cancer that spreads through the body.

Ochsner Baton Rouge (La.) has opened a new outpatient and home infusion pharmacy for chronic, specialty and acute home infusion therapies.

The FDA is warning healthcare professionals about compatibility issues between autoinjectors and glatiramer acetate injections, which are approved to treat relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.