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RITE AID: Applauds Passage of Legislation Helping Seniors Access Pharmacy Services to Prevent Opioid Abuse

American Pharmacy News Reports | Oct 4, 2018

Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) released the following statement praising the U.S. Senate for passage of the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6). Read More »

ACADEMY OF MANAGED CARE PHARMACY: AMCP Partnership Forum to Develop Consensus Roadmap for Managing Total Cost of Care by Integrating Medical and Pharmacy Data

American Pharmacy News Reports | Oct 4, 2018

Health information technology (IT) should be the foundation of all business and clinical operations and not a secondary byproduct Read More »

PHARMACEUTICAL CARE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: Applauds the Administration for Enacting Legislation to Ensure Patients Pay the Lowest Price for Prescription Drugs

American Pharmacy News Reports | Oct 11, 2018

The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) released the following statement on President Trump signing into law S. 2553/ S. 2554, the Know the Lowest Price Act of 2018 and the Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act. Read More »

AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: Applauds Laws Prohibiting PBM 'Gag Clauses'

American Pharmacy News Reports | Oct 11, 2018

President Trump signed bipartisan legislation into law that will remove the barriers preventing pharmacists from helping patients find the least expensive way to purchase their prescription drugs. Read More »

Study shows effects of body lotions on capillary blood glucose

Marian Johns | Oct 16, 2018

A recent study published in European Endocrinology examined the effects of body lotions on capillary blood glucose measurement. Read More »

UCF researchers awarded $400,000 grant to create new insulin delivery tube

Marian Johns | Oct 16, 2018

Researchers from the University of Central Florida recently received a $400,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which they will use to create a tube that resists infection and encapsulation and is inserted under the skin for the delivery of insulin via a pump. Read More »

CVS PHARMACY: Completes Rollout of Time Delay Safes in All of Its Maryland Pharmacies

American Pharmacy News Reports | Oct 18, 2018

New safes for controlled substances will help combat opioid epidemic, reduce robbery incidents. All 228 CVS Pharmacy locations in Maryland area now using time-delay safe technology. Read More »

PHARMACEUTICAL CARE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: PCMA Statement on the Administration's Proposal Requiring List Prices of Drugs in TV Ads

American Pharmacy News Reports | Oct 18, 2018

Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) President and CEO JC Scott released the following statement on the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposal requiring drug companies to disclose the list price of prescription drugs in television ads Read More »

TAIHO ONCOLOGY, INC.: FDA Accepts Supplemental New Drug Application for LONSURF® (trifluridine/tipiracil) for the Treatment of Metastatic Gastric/Gastroesophageal Junction (GEJ) Adenocarcinoma; Grants Priority Review

American Pharmacy News Reports | Oct 26, 2018

Taiho Oncology, Inc. announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted and granted priority review for the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for LONSURF® Read More »

AMGEN: Makes Repatha® (Evolocumab) Available In The US At A 60 Percent Reduced List Price

American Pharmacy News Reports | Oct 26, 2018

Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) today announced that it is making Repatha® (evolocumab), an innovative biologic medicine for people with high cholesterol who are at risk for heart attacks and strokes, available at a reduced list price of $5,850 per year. Read More »

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