Pharmacy

Pfizer is warning physicians that it expects a new shortage of Bicillin L-A, a long-acting penicillin injection that is currently the single recommended treatment for syphilis during pregnancy, CNN reported July 16.  The drugmaker’s alert follows a July 10 recall…

Cincinnati-based UC Health has opened its fifth outpatient pharmacy, located inside the new UC Blood Cancer Healing Center on the UC Medical Center campus.  The new pharmacy offers same-day access to medications, clinical pharmacist guidance and close coordination with care…

U.S. inspectors have found new breakdowns at a Sun Pharmaceuticals plant in India that produces medications for U.S. customers, ProPublica reported July 16.  The FDA found the factory failed to identify the source of bacterial contamination in test samples and…

President Donald Trump said he will most likely impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals as soon as the end of the month, along with tariffs on semiconductors, Bloomberg reported July 15.  Here are four notes: 

CMS has reached agreements with drug manufacturers to provide gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease to Medicaid recipients under a new outcomes-based model.  A total of 33 states, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have joined a…

The FDA is reevaluating GlaxoSmithKline’s blood cancer drug Blenrep following mixed results from two phase 3 trials and mounting concerns about eye-related side effects and dosing.  The agency is meeting with its Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee July 17 to discuss…

Weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro may help reverse low testosterone levels in men with obesity or Type 2 diabetes, according to research presented at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco, NBC News reported July 14. Researchers…

A federal court in Missouri has dismissed a legal challenge by drugmaker AbbVie to the state’s new 340B contract pharmacy law, which aims to regulate how pharmaceutical companies interact with contract pharmacies.  The order, filed July 11 in the U.S.…

California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would ease some of the nation’s strictest pharmacy staffing limits, allowing pharmacists to supervise more technicians at once.  Under Assembly Bill 1503, pharmacists would be permitted to oversee up to three pharmacy technicians,…

Advocate Christ Medical Center has opened a retail pharmacy at its Oak Lawn (Ill.) campus, to provide on-site access to prescription and over the counter medications for patients, staff and local residents, Southwest Regional Publishing reported July 14.  The pharmacy,…