The Massachusetts Medical Society and its Committee on Maternal and Perinatal Welfare voiced their support of the FDA's decision to permit sales of over-the-counter progestin-only birth control, according to a July 18 news release.

High demand has pushed another Novo Nordisk weight loss drug into shortage.

Severe winds from an EF-3 tornado on July 19 crushed a North Carolina Pfizer manufacturing plant that made nearly 25 percent of the drugmaker's sterile injectables used by U.S. hospitals. 

Without a clear resolution to the monthslong shortage of life-saving cancer drugs, hospital pharmacy leaders told Becker's the "gray market" is barging into their emails and phone logs. 

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co.'s pharmacy network now includes hundreds of independent and grocery chain pharmacy locations. 

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. plans to be selling drugs to hospitals and clinics by September or October, the company's CEO and co-founder Alex Oshmyansky, MD, PhD, told Dallas-based D Magazine. 

Nine drugs were recently added to the hundreds-long, growing list of medications in short supply, according to the FDA and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Baptist Health, a nine-hospital system in Louisville, Ky., is the first health system in the U.S. to use MediLedger's blockchain technology to review prices for procured drugs.

A phase 3 trial for donanemab, Eli Lilly's Alzheimer's drug candidate, showed significant progress in slowing down cognitive and functional decline in people who are in early stages of the disease's progression, according to a July 17 news release. 

Krist Azizian, PharmD, wants to standardize 80 percent of pharmacy procedures across multiple ambulatory clinics and a cancer hospital, a 158-bed community hospital, a cancer center, a specialty surgery hospital and a 348-bed community hospital.