Pharmacy

Nashville, TN and San Francisco, CA — September 22, 2025 — Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has selected Latent, an AI-enabled medication access platform, to support specialty and infusion prior authorization workflows. The effort is designed to streamline administrative processes…

HHS is taking new steps to speed the development and review of new cell and gene therapies in the U.S. Three things to know: 1. The FDA published three draft guidances Sept. 24 detailing strategies for drugmakers to streamline the…

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists has launched the  ASHP Center for Next Generation Therapeutics, aimed at supporting hospitals and health systems to navigate cell and gene therapy treatments along with other high-cost therapies.  The center is set to prioritize…

Pharmacy benefit managers are working on a proposal to change certain business practices in an effort to curb potential regulation from the Trump administration, Bloomberg reported Sept. 24.  Here are four things to know: 

Bristol-Myers Squibb is the latest drugmaker to raise drug prices abroad to align with President Donald Trump’s “most favored nation” drug pricing policy, but has not lowered U.S. prices in return, the Financial Times reported Sept. 22. The drugmaker will…

A federal judge refused to block Maine from enforcing a new state law protecting 340B pricing for contract pharmacy arrangements, according to a news release from the American Hospital Association. The preliminary injunctions were filed by AbbVie and Novartis. U.S.…

Here are six new drug shortages and discontinuations, according to drug supply databases from the FDA and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 

The FDA has granted accelerated approval for the elamipretide injection, the first treatment for Barth syndrome in patients weighing at least 30 kg.  Barth syndrome is a life threatening disease of the mitochondria. The injection works by binding the inner…

Walmart has expanded same-day pharmacy services to include refrigerated and reconstituted medications.  The expansion includes refrigerated access for medications such as insulin, GLP-1s and pediatric amoxicillin, according to a Sept. 22 news release from the company. Refrigerated medications make up…

CVS Health subsidiary Omnicare has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas.  The filing comes after a recent ruling in a civil case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern…