Pharmacy

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, PhD, told CNBC Jan. 12 that the drugmaker has enough doses of COVID-19 vaccines to support the Trump administration's decision to expand vaccine eligibility to everyone age 65 and older. 

Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings seeking pharmacy leaders in the last week.

The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, a national group that represents pharmacy benefit managers, filed a lawsuit Jan. 12 challenging a rebate rule passed by HHS last November. 

The Biden transition team will get its first direct access to some regular Operation Warp Speed meetings this week, a senior administration official told Politico. 

Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks told CNBC Jan. 12 that he expects the drugmaker's COVID-19 antibody drug to be effective against the virus variant first discovered in the U.K., but he's unsure if it will work against the variant discovered…

Boone County Health Department in West Virginia has been banned by the state from giving COVID-19 vaccines since late December after the department accidentally gave doses of a COVID-19 antibody drug to patients instead of the vaccine, the Charleston Gazette-Mail…

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine should provide protection against the virus for at least a year, the drugmaker's chief medical officer, Tal Zaks, MD, PhD, said Jan. 11, according to The Hill. 

COVID-19 vaccine supply shortages, storage temperature requirements, inadequate public health infrastructure and nationalism will make it difficult for low-income and conflict-affected countries to vaccinate their residents in 2021, the International Rescue Committee said Jan. 12.

Daniel Richards, CEO of Draper, Utah-based pharmacy Meds in Motion, is facing a federal charge for allegedly importing hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine from China, according to a complaint filed Jan. 11 in the U.S. District Court of Utah.

Ohio's Medicaid program has named Gainwell Technologies as its sole pharmacy benefit manager in a $158 million contract, The Columbus Dispatch reported Jan. 11.