AuroMedics Pharma has issued a nationwide recall of two lots of injectable Piperacillin and Tazobactam, a penicillin antibiotic used to treat pelvic infections, skin infections and hospital-acquired pneumonia.
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Ranier's Rx Laboratory has issued a voluntary recall of all sterile compounded drug products distributed to hospitals and consumers.
Ian Read, Pfizer's CEO, believes the controversial rebates drugmakers pay to pharmacy benefit managers will soon vanish, according to STAT.
Pfizer, the largest drugmaker in the U.S., saw its second-quarter net income climb 26 percent to $3.87 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
In a move expected to save the health system $12 million, New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health will move its pharmacy and delivery service in-house for its 66,000 employees, according to a Newsday report.
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CVS Health fired a pharmacist who would not fill a transgender woman's hormone prescription April 24 at a pharmacy in Phoenix, according to USA Today.
Medicare patients could often spend less on prescriptions filled through Walmart's generic drug discount program than through their own insurance plan, according to research from New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine.
AstraZeneca will not raise the price of its medications in 2018, joining the ranks of numerous drug companies changing their pricing strategies after scrutiny from President Donald Trump, reports Reuters.
Biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences' President and CEO John F. Milligan, PhD, is stepping down by 2019, the company said July 25.
Humana's pharmacy business is the fourth-largest pharmacy benefits manager in the U.S., filling 433 million prescriptions last year, according to an Insider Louisville report.