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| Jul 22, 2026 | ‘We’re moving quickly’: Startup bags rare disease drug as Thiel-backed CEO eyes $50M fundraise | A U.S.-based rare disease startup with a mission to repurpose proven drugs has licensed a Chinese formulation of a well-known medicine and set its sights on a $50 million fundraise.
Ashlins Pharmaceuticals penned a deal worth up to $31 mill... |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Estrogen patches are hard to find, and it may not be resolved any time soon | Estrogen patches are hard to find as demand for menopause support skyrockets.
Hormone replacement therapy has been becoming more popular as women share stories on social media and after the FDA removed a black box warning on the medications... |
| Jan 12, 2026 | Why Centralized Pharmacy is the Only Cure for Rising Drug Costs in 2026 | Lani Bertrand, Sr. Director, Clinical Marketing & Thought Leadership at Omnicell
We’ve all been there: one weekend, you’re bitten by the home improvement bug. A few clicks later, your online cart is full of tools, and within minutes of ... |
| Sep 18, 2025 | - | WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) recognize September 20 as the third annual Pharmacy Workforce Suicide Awareness Day, launche... |
| Aug 6, 2025 | Bluesight Releases 2025 Hospital Pharmacy Drug Purchasing Trends Report | What You Should Know:
– A 2025 report from Bluesight highlights the intense financial, operational, and supply chain challenges confronting hospital pharmacies.
– The 2025 Hospital Pharmacy Drug Purchasing Trends Report analyzes data from s... |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Trump’s pharmaceutical tariffs could raise costs for patients, worsen drug shortages | President Donald Trump’s planned tariffs on pharmaceuticals imported into the U.S. could have wide-ranging consequences on the drug supply chain, manufacturers and American patients, some experts told CNBC.
The tariffs could disrupt the com... |
| Feb 14, 2025 | Beyond Pouch Packaging: Hanmi Pharmaceutical Introduces a New Automated Vial Dispensing Solution in Canada and the United States | Hanmi Pharmaceutical Global Business Headquarters Accelerates Expansion into Canadian and US Markets, Strengthening Collaboration with Distribution Partner McKesson
Introducing 'Countmate': A Customized Solution for Canadian and American Ph... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Enormous Demand for Weight-Loss Drugs Drives Up Total U.S. Prescription Spending | Hospital drug expenditures dip as COVID pressures subside
BETHESDA, Md., April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Blockbuster growth in weight-loss drugs was the main driver of a 13.5% increase in spending on prescription medications in the U.S. in 2... |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Hundreds of drugs are in short supply around the U.S., pharmacists warn | U.S. agencies open generic drug shortage inquiry
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A growing number of drugs are in short supply around the U.S., according to pharmacists.
In the first three months of the year, there we... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | Readout of Biden-Harris Administration Convening with Health Care Community Concerning Cyberattack on Change Healthcare | Leaders from HHS, White House, DOL, and the health care community convened to discuss ways to mitigate harms to patient and providers caused by the cyberattack.
On Tuesday, March 12, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Se... |
| Feb 7, 2024 | Health | Surge in syphilis cases leads some providers to ration penicillin | Catherine Sweeney, WPLN | (TNS) KFF Health News
When Stephen Miller left his primary care practice to work in public health a little under two years ago, he said, he was shocked by how many cases of syphilis the clinic was treating.
For dec... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Health | Patients with narcolepsy face a dual nightmare of medication shortages and stigma | Lauren Peace, Tampa Bay Times | (TNS) KFF Health News
Nina Shand couldn’t stay awake.
She had taken afternoon naps since she was a teenager to accommodate her “work hard, play hard” attitude, but when she was in her mid-20s the sleepiness b... |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Devastating Drug Shortages and How Hospitals Can Mitigate Them | AJ Rivosecchi, PharmD, Sr. Product Manager at Bluesight
Modern medicine delivers miracles every day, but there are challenges, too. At any given time, 300 or more drugs bloat the FDA’s shortage list. Many of these medicines, including life-... |
| Nov 2, 2023 | Once loyal Calibrate patients say they regained weight after the startup struggled to get them weight-loss meds on time | This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Calibrate is a weight-loss startup that offers drugs such as Ozempic alongside coaching. Some members say they've strug... |
| Aug 15, 2023 | Drug Shortages Not Only Exacerbate Healthcare Burnout But Can Also Harm Patient Care | The second quarter of 2023 ended with 309 active drug shortages. This is the highest total in nearly a decade and is approaching the all-time high of 320 shortages, according to a new report from the American Society of Health-System Pharma... |
| Aug 11, 2023 | More hospital pharmacists are rationing drugs due to increasing shortages | Nearly every hospital pharmacy across the U.S. is experiencing shortages of prescription drugs. And the problem has become so bad – especially for chemotherapies — that one-third of hospital pharmacists reported their institutions are ratio... |
| Jul 21, 2023 | Drug shortages squeeze trans patients' access to hormone therapy | The worst drug shortage in a decade is disrupting gender-affirming care, as scarce supplies of injectable estrogen prevent some transgender women from obtaining hormone therapy.
Why it matters: Shortages of cancer drugs and other life-savin... |
| Jul 13, 2023 | Health
Health | Patients squeezed in fight over who gets to bill for pricey infusion drugs | Samantha Liss | (TNS) KFF Health News
Health insurers and medical providers are battling over who should supply high-cost infusion drugs for patients, with the tussle over profits now spilling into statehouses across the country.
The issue ... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | A cosmetic dermatologist says he's seeing 'Ozempic face,' or gaunt cheeks from taking the buzzy weight loss drug | A cosmetic dermatologist explains why some patients are using fillers to combat "Ozempic face" after taking the drug for weight loss. Getty Images
A cosmetic dermatologist explained why he coined the term "Ozempic face,"... |
| Jan 18, 2023 | I prescribe the popular weight-loss drug semaglutide to my patients. I hesitate to call it a magic bullet. | Dr. Paul Kolodzik thinks semaglutide may be the most widely prescribed medicine in the history of the world sometime in the next five to 10 years. Courtesy of Paul Kolodzik
Dr. Paul Kolodzik has been prescribing semaglutide to his diabetic ... |
| Aug 4, 2022 | Manufacturing roundup: Societal CDMO nets new customers; Chime Biologics gets the OK to manufacture antibodies | Societal CDMO has been awarded service contracts for three new customers. The agreements include an array of manufacturing services, for clinical trials, analytical methods, formulation development and cGMP man... |
| Sep 2, 2020 | IBM Watson Health, OrbitalRX Launches Solution to Combat U.S. Drug Shortage | What You Should Know:
– IBM Watson Health and OrbitalRX launches an integrated solution to assist hospital pharmacy providers in managing drug shortages.
– Joint offering pairs pharmacy supply chain management capabilities with evidence-bas... |
| Apr 10, 2020 | Doctors ‘keep an open mind’ about unproven coronavirus drug, but worry it could do more harm than good | SAN FRANCISCO — For President Trump, whether Covid-19 patients should take a once-obscure malaria drug is not even a close call: “What do you have to lose?” he said during a briefing this week. “And a lot of people are saying that, and are ... |
| Jan 12, 2020 | As healthcare’s unsung heroes, pharmacists deserve more recognition | When a medical assistant in a physician’s office delivers similar services, payers compensate the provider. That’s not the case with pharmacists – aka Doctors of Pharmacy, who today earn advanced degrees that often are followed by clinical ... |
| May 15, 2019 | 800 hospitals are joining forces to make their own drugs and upend the generic pharma business. They just revealed the 2 treatments they plan to make first. | AP
Antibiotics and other critical hospital drugs are in short supply. A new group called Civica Rx is starting to do something about that.
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A group of 800 hospitals created a nonprofit generic drugmaker called Civica Rx.
The ho... |
| Mar 19, 2019 | Drug shortages jeopardize the lives of children with cancer | Alice, a preteen with newly diagnosed leukemia, and her parents were understandably distraught when she was diagnosed with cancer. As I sat down to discuss treatment options with Alice’s parents, I was glad I had something positive to share... |
| Sep 6, 2018 | A group of hospitals just picked a CEO to run their nonprofit generic drug company - and he's not getting paid to do it | AP
In this Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, photo, a nurse administers an I.V. push of antibiotics to patient Alice McDonald at ProMedica Toledo Hospital in Toledo, Ohio.
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A group of hospitals have built a nonprofit generic drugmaker call... |
| Sep 6, 2018 | Nonprofit generic drugmaker run by hospital groups opens for business | “We are creating a public asset with a mission to ensure that essential generic medications are accessible and affordable,” VanTrieste said in a statement. “The fact that a third of the country’s hospitals have either expressed interest or ... |
| May 24, 2018 | The US is running out of commonly used drugs including ones epidurals, and it's put us on 'the brink of a public health emergency' | Reuters/Brian Snyder
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The drug shortage problem in the US is getting worse, and has extended to include a type of epidural used for pregnant women during childbirth.
Hospitals have had to get crafty with rationing drug dosage i... |
| Nov 11, 2017 | We're running out of commonly used drugs - and hospitals say it's 'quickly becoming a crisis' | REUTERS/Jim Young
Patient Rose Bush (R) receives treatment from Doctor Leon Yeh in the Emergency Room at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois, November 26, 2013.
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Hospitals are facing a shortage on medications t... |
| Pfizer limits distribution of some drugs from North Carolina plant damaged by tornado | Pfizer is limiting the distribution of some drugs manufactured at its plant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, after the facility was struck by a tornado last month, the company said in a letter to hospitals.
The letter listed 12 drugs that Pf... |
| As healthcare’s unsung heroes, pharmacists deserve more recognition | Patients may not realize all the ways pharmacists work with them to improve health. But in reality, pharmacists are unsung healthcare heroes who make essential contributions to the delivery of care.
Pharmacists do more than fill prescriptio... |
| Ketamine can be transformative for people with suicidal thoughts — if they can access it | Every day, Marisa Russello was overwhelmed by suicidal thoughts.
Even one negative thought might cause her to spiral. A writer working on her book manuscript, she’d be unable to change a word without questioning the entire project’s value a... |
| How the test-to-treat pillar of the U.S. Covid strategy is failing patients | The federal “test-to-treat” program, announced in March, is meant to reduce covid hospitalizations and deaths by quickly getting antiviral pills to people who test positive. But even as cases rise again, many Americans don’t have access to ... |
| Nonprofit generic drugmaker run by hospital groups opens for business | A coalition of hospital groups made good on its plan to set up a nonprofit generic drugmaker Thursday.
Civica Rx has been formally established as a nonprofit organization headquartered in Utah. Seven health organizations representing 500 ho... |
| Pharmacy staff from Walgreens, CVS say they’re at a breaking point — here’s what their days look like | Pharmacy employees at some of the U.S.’s largest drugstore chains say they’re at a breaking point.
Workers are concerned that companies like Walgreens and CVS are placing unreasonable demands on them, without providing enough staffing or re... |
| ASHP Launches "We're Your Pharmacist" Public Awareness Campaign | Campaign Showcases Vital Patient Care Roles of Hospital and Health-System Pharmacists
BETHESDA, Md., May 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists), the largest association of pharmacy professionals... |
