Pharmacy

For the first time in Florida, physicians administered a recently approved gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy to a pediatric patient. 

As the supply of two staple cancer drugs rebounds after months of scarcity, two medications used in pediatric cancer patients have fallen into shortage, NBC News reported Sept. 25. 

Production has resumed at Pfizer's 1.4 million square foot manufacturing plant that was damaged in July by a tornado, the company announced Sept. 25.

A Florida-based drugmaker is pulling one lot of an ulcer drug because of a possible Bacillus cereus contamination. 

All individuals who are between 32 and 36 weeks pregnant should receive the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine this fall, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended Sept. 22 by an 11-1 vote.

Rite Aid proposed closing nearly a fourth of its 2,100 pharmacies and declaring bankruptcy, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal in a Sept. 22 story. 

A Chicago hospital strengthened its product disposal rules in 2021 after its pharmacy director at the time sold empty COVID-19 vaccine vials on Craigslist, CBS News reported Sept. 20. 

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has appointed Nishaminy Kasbekar, PharmD, as vice president and chief pharmacy officer, according to a Sept. 21 LinkedIn post. 

Baptist Health South Florida is partnering with EveryDose, a digital health company, to digitize medication adherence processes. 

An FDA panel voted 19-0 Sept. 21 to reject ITCA 650, an experimental Type 2 diabetes drug delivery product, after refusing approval twice.