Pharmacy

Hospital administrators face ever-shifting and increasing demands as they work to ensure that patients receive high-quality care, while also reigning in costs. Many hospitals today look to mergers and acquisitions as a strategy to help tackle these demands. In fact,…

In an unusual twist, the FDA revoked orphan status for Sublocade, an opioid addiction treatment manufactured by Indivior that was approved two years ago, according to STAT. 

American Health Packaging is the latest company to recall a ranitidine product after discovering it produces a possible carcinogen. 

Medicare Part B premiums will rise nearly 7 percent next year to $144.60 per month, CMS officials announced.

Amgen will lay off a quarter of its staff in Cambridge, Mass., and halt all neuroscience research, according to the Boston Business Journal.

Walgreens recently bought, and then closed, seven community pharmacies in Ohio, according to The Columbus Dispatch. 

Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking pharmacy leaders in the last week.

Private equity firm KKR & Co. made a formal offer Nov. 11 to buy Walgreens Boots Alliance in what would be the largest leveraged buyout in history, people familiar with the deal told Bloomberg.

Bi-Mart, a grocery chain with stores in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, will close all its in-store pharmacies in Portland, Ore., according to Fox 12.

The FDA has authorized marketing of Vela Diagnostics' test to detect HIV Type 1 drug resistance mutations.