CVS Health's and Cigna's specialty pharmacies make a slight majority in the nation's revenue share, and the four top companies account for 75 percent of the market share, according to the Drug Channels Institute's estimates released July 27.
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Refreshed vaccines aimed at omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, which account for nearly all COVID-19 infections, could be available to the public in about six weeks, according to NPR.
As generics outpaced blood pressure and cholesterol medications, drugmakers initially withdrew from developing costly heart drugs but are now cautiously returning, The Wall Street Journal reported July 26.
Keene, N.H.-based Cheshire Medical Center's former pharmacy director, Melissa Siciliano, PharmD, must pay a $1,000 fine and participate in education courses as part of a settlement agreement reached with the state's pharmacy board July 20, The Keene Sentinel reported July…
The White House held a summit on the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines July 26 during which federal health experts shared their vision for a vaccine that protects against infection from multiple variants, according to U.S. News & World Report.
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A lobbying group that represents drugmakers including Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson aired ads slamming the drug pricing bill trudging through Congress, The Hill reported July 25.
Requests for abortion pills saw a 109 percent increase between June 24 and July 15, nonprofit organization Just the Pill told Becker's.
As omicron subvariant BA.5 prompts a summer surge in COVID-19 cases, here are two recent studies on vaccine effectiveness against the quickly spreading variant:
The effort to vaccinate children younger than 5 has crawled since its infancy, with CDC data showing less than 3 percent of the nation's 19 million children in this age group with at least one vaccine jab.
As physicians balance patient care in the turmoil following the Supreme Court's decision to reverse Roe v. Wade, the pharmaceutical industry has been hit on multiple fronts, and CVS Health is the latest retail chain to add another step in…