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Bayer has hired Marianne De Backer, a former Johnson & Johnson executive, to manage its acquisitions and licensing deals, according to Endpoints News.
Allergan agreed to pay $5 million to settle allegations that it helped fuel the national opioid crisis, according to The Wall Street Journal. The settlement allows Allergan to sidestep a potentially damaging opioid trial set to begin next month.
Novartis launched 17 drugs between 2009 to 2018, making it the top performer, according to data cited by STAT.
Below are five of the top pharmacy stories published by Becker's Hospital Review in August, beginning with the most popular:
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After an FDA inspection, AmEx Pharmacy is recalling all lots of two of its bevacizumab injectables, used to treat macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.
The former owner of New Jersey-based Empire Pharmacy has been charged in a multimillion dollar scheme to defraud health insurers, the U.S. Justice Department said.
A swine fever outbreak in China that has killed millions of pigs has led to a dwindling supply of a common blood thinner in the U.S., Bloomberg reports.
While Eli Lilly's generic insulin has been approved since March, a significant portion of prescription claims are still for its brand-name counterpart, Humalog, according to an analysis from drug price tracker GoodRx.
The Sackler family would reportedly give up ownership of Purdue Pharma and pay $3 billion of its own money to settle thousands of federal and state lawsuits that accuse the family and drugmaker of fueling the opioid epidemic, a person…