Pharmacy

Rite Aid will acquire Seattle-based pharmacy chain Bartell Drugs for $95 million, the company announced Oct. 7. 

Regeneron has submitted its experimental COVID-19 antibody treatment to the FDA for emergency use authorization, the drugmaker announced Oct. 7.

Dexamethasone, the steroid drug President Donald Trump was recently prescribed to treat COVID-19, has seen a price increase of 137 percent in the last few months, according to nonprofit drug research firm 46brooklyn. 

M Health Fairview, a Minneapolis-based health system, said it will shut down five of its pharmacies as part of a cost-saving measure to offset losses caused by COVID-19. 

U.K.-based pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline partnered with Nvidia, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based tech company that invented the graphics processing unit, to discover new treatments, the companies announced Oct. 5.

Most older Americans take two or more prescription drugs, but only a small percentage have had a pharmacist review the potential interactions of their medication combinations, according to survey results released Oct. 7 by Michigan Medicine.

Eli Lilly said Oct. 7 that it has submitted a request for an emergency use authorization to the FDA for its COVID-19 antibody drug after clinical trials showed it may be effective to treat patients with high risk for serious…

Two Mississippi pharmacy owners are accused of paying and receiving kickbacks and other bribes in exchange for promoting expensive compounded drugs and dispensing them to people who didn't need them in an $18 million healthcare fraud scheme, the Sun Herald…

Rick Bright, PhD, a vaccine expert with decades of experience working in the federal government, resigned from HHS Oct. 6, saying his workplace was too hostile for him to continue working.

Insulin prices in the U.S. were up to 10 times higher in 2018 than other countries in an intergovernmental group created to stimulate economic progress globally, according to a report cited by STAT.