Pharmacy

Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee wrote a letter urging the committee to hold a hearing on the U.S. Department of Defense's role in Operation Warp Speed, the White House task force to develop and distribute a safe…

The FDA won't require inspections of vaccine makers' production facilities before a COVID-19 vaccine receives emergency use authorization, Bloomberg reported. 

Eli Lilly's antibody treatment bamlanivimab does not improve recovery times or survival rates for patients hospitalized with advanced COVID-19, the drugmaker said Oct. 26.

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

Florida's plan to become the first state to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada has hit a setback after no private firms bid on the state's $30 million contract to set up and operate the drug importation program, the Miami…

AstraZeneca released an interim analysis of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine Oct. 26 that showed positive results in older populations, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

Thousands of long-term care facilities have opted into a free HHS program with CVS Health and Walgreens to administer COVID-19 vaccines to high-priority groups at the long-term care facilities, CNBC reported. 

Bayer bought gene therapy company Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, commonly known as AskBio, Oct. 26 in a deal totaling $4 billion.

The COVID-19 vaccine trials for AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson — which were voluntarily paused on Sept. 9 and Oct. 12, respectively — are resuming after independent review panels confirmed their safety.

Equitas Health, based in Columbus, Ohio, and Dallas-based Prism Health North Texas have opened two new pharmacies in Dallas' Oak Lawn and Oak Cliff neighborhoods.