A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by six pharmacies that claimed Express Scripts violated health privacy laws and poached customers, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking pharmacy leadership talent in the last week.
Becker's Hospital Review has reported the following six drug or biotech company layoffs in the last two months. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
A proposed bill in New Jersey would ban insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from charging a higher copay than the cash price of a medication, according to New Jersey 101.5, a local radio station.
Two co-pharmacy owners were sentenced to 10 years in prison each for creating a bogus pharmacy to obtain and distribute OxyContin and other prescription narcotics to black-market customers, according to NBC Los Angeles.
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Merck, the sole supplier of a critical bladder cancer drug, is restricting shipments of the treatment as demand outpaces supply.
A California jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $29 million to a woman who alleged that asbestos in the company's talc-based baby powder caused her fatal cancer, according to Bloomberg.
Oral forms of medications include inactive ingredients to help stabilize the drug or aid in its absorption. While these components are usually harmless, nearly all of these pills contain some ingredients that can cause allergic reactions, a new study published…
The chief executive of Novartis' generic drug business Sandoz abruptly stepped down, according to Reuters.
CMS updated its drug spending dashboards with pricing and spending data from 2017 to help increase transparency in healthcare and provide incentives to lower list prices.