Pharmacy

James Mangan, RPh, director of hospital and ambulatory pharmacy for Hyannis, Mass.-based Cape Cod Healthcare, shared the most common medication errors that patients make at home with the Cape Cod Times.

Here are six hospitals, health systems or primary care networks that have announced investments in retail, specialty or in-house pharmacies this year, reported by Becker's Hospital Review. 

Spending on specialty pharmaceuticals continues to rise in the U.S. as the number of patients combating complex, chronic conditions increases, and drugmakers focus their development efforts on treatments for more complex diseases.

MinuteClinic, CVS Health's retail medical clinic, has launched telehealth programs in eight more states.

Consumer genetics company 23andMe has lost its chief scientific officer, Richard Scheller, PhD, who was responsible for finding and developing new drugs, according to STAT.

Walgreens CMO Patrick Carroll, MD, will leave the retail pharmacy giant to join health and wellness company Hims & Hers as its first CMO, the executive announced in a blog post July 9. 

Despite public criticism and bipartisan efforts to lower drug prices, drugmakers have continued to steeply raise them, according to a Wells Fargo analysis cited by Bloomberg.

The World Health Organization published an updated list of essential medicines July 9, adding 28 drugs for adults and 23 medicines for children.

Sandoz, a generics and biosimilar unit of Novartis, will make its generic epinephrine shots immediately available for sale in U.S. retail pharmacies as a shortage of Mylan's lifesaving allergy treatment EpiPen drags on.

The FDA has approved 13 novel medicines in 2019, compared to 2018 when there were 20 new molecular entity approvals by July 1, according to the Eye on FDA blog.