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.…
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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,…
Nostrum Laboratories has shut down operations and issued a voluntary nationwide recall of its Sucralfate-brand tablets, a medication commonly used to treat and prevent ulcers in the digestive tract. The recall affects all lots of the drug still within expiry…
AstraZeneca’s drug candidate baxdrostat lowered systolic blood pressure in a phase 3 clinical trial involving patients with uncontrolled or treatment-resistant hypertension. In the trial, patients who received either 1 mg or 2 mg of baxdrostat once daily had a greater…
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The FDA published a database containing more than 200 letters to pharmaceutical companies detailing why the agency initially refused to approve their products, The New York Times reported July 10. FDA officials described the move as a form of “radical…
Here are six new drug shortages and discontinuations, according to drug supply databases from the FDA.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, said the agency may fast-track new drugs from pharmaceutical companies that equalize the cost of their medicines between the U.S. and other countries, Bloomberg reported July 11. “We can issue a national priority review voucher…
In response to a growing pharmacy technician shortage and oncology care demands, Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., developed and launched an in-house training program to help grow its pharmacy technician workforce. Since its inception in 2021, the program has…
While the total number of drug shortages in the U.S. appears to be decreasing in 2025, some shortages of essential medications have yet to be resolved. Erin Fox, PharmD, senior pharmacy director at University of Utah Health, said a few…