At the touch of a fingertip, Cigna enrollees can now track health information, find practitioners and manage claims, all via their digital devices, with the company’s recent installation of personalized fingerprint access to their accounts. Read More »
The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) recently started a campaign to promote pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and launched the related website DrugBenefitSolutions.com. Read More »
Sanofi's Soliqua 100/33 product to treat adults with Type 2 diabetes is now available via prescription in U.S. pharmacies. Read More »
Marrk Merritt, president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, writes, "The truth is PBMs reduce costs for payers and consumers by 30 percent or more and are part of the solution. It’s time for drug manufacturers to take responsibility for their own business mistakes instead of blaming others." Read More »
Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. (Teva) recently announced a settlement with the United States government related to allegations of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in Ukraine, Mexico and Russia. Read More »
Direct Relief recently announced that it airlifted 82 tons of medical aid to Haiti for the treatment of cholera and other diseases that have become rampant since Hurricane Matthew in October. Read More »
The Express Scripts Holding Company recently revealed plans to present at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference next week in San Francisco. Read More »
Bayer recently announced an agreement with Leica Biosystems to collaborate on developing companion diagnostic tests based on tissue samples for cancer patients. Read More »
Argentina's regulatory body has approved Hemispherx Biopharma's New Drug Application for the commercial sale of rintatolimod. Read More »
Akebia Therapeutics Inc. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. recently entered a collaboration and license agreement in the U.S. for vadadustat, an oral hypoxia-inducible factor stabilizer in development for the treatment of anemia associated with chronic kidney disease Read More »
According to a report published in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, scientists were able to determine that 6 percent of pregnancies after contracting the Zika virus infection resulted in one or more birth defects linked to Zika using data from the U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry. Read More »
Legislators in Missouri will move in the next session to bring the state into line with most of the rest of the country by heightening the standard on expert witness testimony in civil trials. Read More »
Express Scripts' enhancements have been applied to its SafeGuardRx programs, which focus on the treatment of hepatitis C and cancer. Read More »
According a new research study conducted by Visante, pharmacy benefit managers are saving consumers and payers $941 on average per person a year. Read More »
In the dance between drug and insurance companies over the cost of medicines and which ones should be prescribed, step therapy or “fail first” policies are increasingly popular. Read More »
CymaBay Therapeutics will present results of its Phase 2 proof-of-concept MBX-8025 clinical trial at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Nov. 11-15 in Boston. Read More »
Coupons offered by drug companies play a significant role in keeping prescription costs high, according to the co-author of a report that lays out solutions to fix problems with the system. Read More »
Co-pay coupons and discounts offered to consumers ultimately will lead to higher costs across society as they increasingly drive up premiums, according to one leading expert on prescription drugs. Read More »
At first, price-slashing discount coupons for expensive drugs may appeal to consumers on an everyday basis, but a look behind the scenes suggests that using brand-name medications may possibly yield little, if any, net savings. Read More »
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) has been honored for her work in driving a bill through Congress aimed at battling the opioid, heroin and fentanyl abuse epidemic. Read More »
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