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Diabetes advocacy group discourages use of compounded GLP-1 drugs

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The ADA recommended doctors avoid prescribing unapproved, off-brand versions of drugs like Wegovy, wading into a dispute that has gripped the FDA and compounding pharmacies over the past few months.

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FDA Approves First Flu Vaccine You Give Yourself at Home

Drugs.com

20, 2024 -- The days of waiting for a flu shot at your doctor's office or local pharmacy may be over: The U.S. FRIDAY, Sept. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved FluMist nasal spray as the first influenza vaccine that can be.

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FDA Approves First Flu Vaccine You Give Yourself at Home, FluMist

Drugs.com

20, 2024 -- The days of waiting for a flu shot at your doctor's office or local pharmacy may be over: The U.S. FRIDAY, Sept. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved FluMist nasal spray as the first influenza vaccine that can be.

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Drug Channels News Roundup, April 2022: 340Boom, 340B Profits for Pharmacies & PBMs, Fixing Insulin, Walgreens’ Robots, and Doctors’ Day

Drug Channels

Glaucomflecken helps UnitedHealthcare celebrate Doctors’ Day! Next week, I'll be live and in-person at Asembia's Specialty Pharmacy Summit. P.S. For my daily pitches on the industry’s hits and misses, join my nearly 27,000 LinkedIn followers for daily links to neat stuff. Hope to see you there! d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. This post examines the Zarzamora pharmacy and prescribing red flags decision. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy, Nos.

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3 Ways Adobe Commerce Elevates Pharmacy Services

Perficient: Drug Development

Is there anything worse than going to a pharmacy to pick up your prescriptions? Thankfully, many pharmacies have adopted home delivery services. Here are three ways pharmacies can adopt this Adobe Commerce solution to extend and secure trust with their patients. However, this presents some challenges.

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Do Plan Sponsors Understand How Their PBMs Make Money?

Drug Channels

Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing with a subtle and not-at-all pejorative title: The Role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers in Prescription Drug Markets Part II: Not What the Doctor Ordered. To help you prepare, I share fresh insights from a new survey of PBMs’ plan sponsor clients.