Pharmacy

Bluebird Bio has priced Zynteglo, its gene therapy for a blood disorder, at $1.8 million, according to STAT news.

The owner of a pain clinic and pharmacy in Florida was sentenced to more than six years in prison and three years probation for his role in a $2.2 million insurance fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

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

A federal appeals court revived a class-action lawsuit alleging CVS Health overcharged millions of customers for generic drugs, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Four drugs or medical devices approved by the FDA since June 7:

Rita Shane, PharmD, FASHP, FCSHP,  first joined Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as an intern pharmacist, quickly rising through the ranks, serving as clinical coordinator and assistant director of pharmacy, prior to becoming director of pharmacy in 1988. In 2015,…

A jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive to pay $9.6 million to a dying California woman who claimed the companies' talc-based products caused her cancer, according to Bloomberg.

U.S. House progressive caucus members invited executives from six pharma companies to testify on Capitol Hill next week about what the lawmakers deem "unjustifiable" price increases, according to STAT news.

While a large majority of hospitals obtain non-patient specific compounded drugs from FDA-designated outsourcing facilities, 11 percent of them obtained drugs from unregistered compounders, according to a new report from the HHS Office of the Inspector General.

PillPack, the online pharmacy acquired by Amazon last year, has been accused of violating customer privacy in separate lawsuits within the last year, according to STAT.