Customers of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co.'s mail-order pharmacy can now save more than $20,000 on the cancer drug everolimus. 

UFCW 3000, a union representing about 50,000 workers at health systems, retail stores and other businesses in three states, said it secured wage increases for some Kaiser Permanente employees. 

Acorda Therapeutics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy April 1. 

The average pharmacist's salary in the U.S. is $134,790, and 15 states and Washington, D.C., are above the average, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists partly welcomed HHS' 18-page policy recommendations for drug shortage strategies, but the organization said it "proposes concerning penalties."

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals is withdrawing its FDA-approved therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Relyvrio, from the market after a phase 3 study failure, the company said April 4. 

David Joyner, executive vice president of CVS Health and president of CVS Caremark, called out Mark Cuban's drug company in a paid op-ed Fortune published April 3. 

On average, general hospitals pay pharmacists more than retailers, but both industries are not among the five highest paying for the profession, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

On April 3, the FDA approved Zevtera, an antibiotic with three different uses. 

CVS Health on April 3 unveiled a new tuition assistance program for pharmacy interns and a scholarship program for students in pharmacy school.