Vivimed Life Sciences issued a recall for 19 lots of losartan potassium tablets after detecting a potentially carcinogenic impurity.
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Ten workers from the Global Compounding Pharmacy in Alabama, including a nurse practitioner, pharmacist and the pharmacy's owners, were charged in connection to a $200 million prescription drug fraud investigation, according to a WSFA news report.
A former pharmacy tech at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mo., was sentenced to three years in prison last week for stealing painkillers, according to The Springfield News-Leader.
Pfizer received FDA approval May 6 for Vyndaqel, which treats a rare and fatal heart disease. The drug will launch with a list price of $225,000 per year in the U.S., according to Reuters.
A federal judge has denied Aetna's bid to derail a whistleblower suit against CVS Caremark that alleges the pharmacy benefit manager overbilled Medicare by more than $1 billion for prescription drugs, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
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McKesson has agreed to pay $37 million to resolve a lawsuit in West Virginia accusing the drug distributor of contributing to the opioid crisis.
An HHS plan to force prescription drug prices down by removing rebates in the Medicare Part D program would actually have the opposite effect and hike federal spending on the program by $177 billion over 10 years, according to a…
Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other executives were convicted May 2 of a racketeering conspiracy that boosted sales of a highly addictive opioid, helping drive the opioid crisis in the U.S., according to Reuters.