UnityPoint Health has opened a new retail pharmacy location near its Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines. The pharmacy — situated in a building across the street from the hospital — will offer  prescription and over-the-counter medications and special ordering.…

In healthcare, new technology rollouts usually take months. Mount Sinai Health System (Mount Sinai) and Latent Health completed one in a single day. That speed wasn’t luck, it came from clear goals, tight collaboration, and disciplined execution. Working as One…

From surgical robots to telemedicine, healthcare is experiencing technological progress that has the potential to improve patient safety and elevate clinical care. However, one area that often flies under the radar is the health system pharmacy. Despite advances in medication…

Teva Pharmaceuticals has voluntarily recalled more than 580,000 bottles of prazosin hydrochloride, a high blood pressure drug, because of a carcinogenic ingredient.  In safety and quality testing of the medication, the drugmaker detected N-nitroso Prazosin impurity C, which can increase…

Pfizer is pushing back against a $9 billion unsolicited bid from Denmark-based Novo Nordisk to acquire Metsera, calling it an illegal attempt to eliminate a U.S.-based competitor.  Pfizer said the structure of Novo Nordisk’s proposal — which includes $56.50 per…

A year ago, Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health made a bold bet on the future of pharmacy. The health system launched MedVenta Health Solutions, a company meant to reimagine how pharmacy could support value-based care beyond hospital walls. That bet is…

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, announced new FDA guidance aimed at making biosimilar drug development faster and less costly.  The FDA’s draft guidance eliminates routine requirements for comparative…

Eli Lilly and Walmart have partnered to offer in-store pickup of Zepbound (tirzepatide) single-dose vials through the LillyDirect platform by mid-November. The collaboration marks the first time patients using LillyDirect, the company’s direct-to-consumer healthcare platform, will be able to access…

The Senate Special Committee on Aging proposed new reforms to strengthen oversight of foreign-made generic drugs, linking the effort to findings from a recent ProPublica investigation, according to an Oct. 27 report from the news outlet. Committee Chair Sen. Rick…

Nearly a year ago, Mark Cuban told Becker’s his top goals for 2025 were to sell more brand-name drugs and biosimilars and partner with additional pass-through pharmacy benefit managers.  The billionaire entrepreneur’s pharmaceutical company, aptly named Mark Cuban Cost Plus…