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. 

The U.S. now has an approved pediatric drug to prevent respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory tract disease, which infects nearly every child before they turn 2 years old.

Eli Lilly has entered a definitive agreement to acquire obesity drugmaker Versanis for $1.93 billion — a move that will boost Eli Lilly's weight loss drug treatment portfolio. 

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists recently named six hospitals as centers of excellence for their medication use safety and pharmacy practice. The pharmacy leaders at these facilities shared with Becker's their keys to earning the three-year accreditation:

Nonprofit organization 340B Health selected Karen Bowling, president and CEO of a West Virginia University Health System hospital, as the new chair of its board of directors. 

An FDA-approved multiple sclerosis drug that requires 2.5 hours for the first infusion and 3.5 hours for subsequent doses might be able to shorten its duration to 10 minutes, its maker said July 14. 

There are no commercially available solutions of compounded cardioplegia, a drug used to temporarily stop the heart during surgery, after the FDA cited the nation's only pharmacy that compounded the medication.

Uninsured Americans are still having challenges accessing affordable insulin, despite Eli Lilly's decision to cap its generic version, Lispro, at $25 per vial, according to a report Sen. Elizabeth Warren's office released July 13. 

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. added its 10th brand-name drug to its portfolio that includes about 1,000 generics.

On July 13, the FDA approved an oral contraceptive pill called Opill to be sold over the counter, making it a first in the U.S.