Pharmacy

We all know someone affected by a complex illness. Cancer. Crohn's disease. Multiple sclerosis.

California is the first state to require pharmacists to report every prescription mistake.

After seeing success from CVS pharmacy workers calling out of work over staffing concerns in Kansas City, Walgreens employees organized a walkout — but it's unclear whether the scattered labor action will result in change.

Forty-three percent of employers plan to cover weight loss drugs in 2024, nearly double the proportion of employers that cover them now, according to newly released survey findings from Accolade. 

Nearly two years after Mark Cuban launched a mail-order pharmacy with low-cost medications, the entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" star has secured more than a dozen collaborators. 

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is, for a second time, extending clinicians' ability to prescribe controlled substances using telehealth services, according to a revised rule the agency published. 

Since mid-September, drugmakers have reported five new drug shortages, including medications for lung cancer, hypertension and eye infections. 

An unclear number of Walgreens pharmacies might close Oct. 9-11 after pharmacists shared plans through social media apps, emails and fliers to stage a walkout, according to CNN. 

Staples, Minn.-based Lakewood Health System is acquiring a local pharmacy. 

After a study participant died from a severe and rare inflammatory syndrome, the FDA placed a partial clinical hold on a France-based drugmaker's cancer drug trial.