An Illinois man was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for selling a bogus medical device inspired by the TV show "Star Trek," reports New York Daily News.
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Pfizer and Flynn Pharma were fined a record amount for raising the price of its unbranded epilepsy drug by almost 2,600 percent in the U.K., reports Bloomberg.
Salt Lake City—Intermountain Healthcare topped Gartner's 2016 Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 for companies demonstrating leadership in improving human life at sustainable costs.
Almost a quarter of global company revenues can be traced back to four commodities known to fuel deforestation — cattle products, palm oil, soy and timber products, according to a report from CDP. This figure represents $906 billion in annual…
A patent lawsuit against Life Technologies, a biotech company acquired by Thermo Fisher in 2013, could cause expensive repercussions for medical device makers relying on global supply chains, reports Boston Business Journal.
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Jakob Riis, president of the Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, posted an open letter on the company's website Wednesday, vowing he would not raise the list price of any medicine by more than a single-digit percentage annually, reports STAT News.
On Monday, Amazon unveiled its first "Amazon Go" store — a brick-and-mortar convenience store in downtown Seattle that uses artificial intelligence-powered technology to eliminate cash registers and lines, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Global spending on prescription drugs is projected to reach nearly $1.5 trillion by 2021, according to a report from Quintiles IMS Holding. This figure, based on wholesale pricing, represents an almost $370 billion increase from the estimated drug spending for…
Patients who received a call or text reminder from their pharmacy were more likely to refill their prescriptions before a large storm than those who did not receive an alert, according to a new study sponsored by CVS Health and…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — part of the U.S. Department of Transportation — will create a national clearing house to handle drug and alcohol testing for commercial truck and bus drivers, reports American Shipper.