In a country where health care is rife with wasted time and money, Walgreens is committed to making pharmacy more efficient. One measure of the practice’s current inefficiency, says Alex Gourlay, co-chief operating officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.
The choices of Tom Price and Seema Verma for top health positions under Donald Trump have reaffirmed the president-elect’s commitment to toppling the Affordable Care Act.
Sandoz Inc. has introduced bimatoprost ophthalmic solution 0.03%, an eyelash treatment, in the U.S. market. The Novartis subsidiary said its bimatoprost ophthalmic product is a generic version of Latisse from Allergan. A prescription medicine, bimatoprost ophthalmic solution 0.
Diplomat Pharmacy Inc. is uniting five subsidiaries under a new brand umbrella called Diplomat Specialty Infusion Group.
Publix Super Markets has opened a retail pharmacy at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Lake Nona Medical City, Orlando, Fla.
H-E-B has earned full accreditation to deliver specialty pharmacy clinical services to patients with complex and chronic diseases in more than 260 stores across Texas.
Dipankar Bhattacharjee has been promoted to president and chief executive officer of the Global Generic Medicines Group at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. The appointment is effective immediately.
Jardiance tablets, marketed by Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Co., have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to cut the risk of cardiovascular death in adults with type 2 diabetes and established cardiovascular disease.
J M Smith Corp. plans to acquire drug wholesaler Burlington Drug Co. and certain retail operations assets of Pharmacy Health Services (PHS). Financial terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed.
Chain drug stores remain the largest customer base for pharmaceutical distributors, according to the Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA). Drug chains accounted for 42.
Though annual growth stands to moderate, global drug spending will climb to an estimated $1.5 trillion by 2021, up 33% from this year, according to the QuintilesIMS Institute. Worldwide spending on medicines is projected to grow at a 4% to 7% compound annual rate over the next
Automated pharmacy notifications prompt patients with chronic conditions to refill prescriptions before a forecasted natural disaster, a new study by CVS Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finds.
Aurora Health Care will own and operate eight health clinics in Walgreens stores across eastern Wisconsin. Plans call for five current Walgreens Healthcare Clinics to transition to Aurora next spring, when the locations will become part of Aurora Health Care, the companies said Tuesday.
DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC) has acquired at-home paternity test provider Identigene LLC. Financial terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed.
Akers Biosciences Inc. has entered an agreement with First Check Diagnostics LLC to exclusively distribute its rapid cholesterol self-test in the United States under the First Check brand.
Maxor National Pharmacy Services LLC has completed its acquisition of Pharmaceutical Specialties Inc. (PSI). Financial terms of the deal, announced in September, weren’t disclosed. Bogart, Ga.
