May 28th 2025
This serialization system represents a business imperative that yields significant competitive advantages.
The rebrand creates a platform that is expected enhance the way life sciences companies bring their therapies to market.
May 21st 2025
The telehealth site will welcome its own small-dose, compounded version of semaglutide, which mimics the function of a GLP-1.
May 19th 2025
The partnership is centered around cutting cold chain costs and emissions with smart packaging and carbon-neutral same-day delivery.
May 14th 2025
Andrew Witty resigns due to personal reasons, as Stephen Hemsley, chairman and former chief executive, will assume the position.
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase will partner on employee healthcare
Another attempt by payers to control their healthcare costs; possible broader implications
Celgene acquires Juno Therapeutics for $9 billion
Deal brings Celgene into the CAR-T arena
Sanofi will acquire Bioverativ for $11.6 billion
Acquired company lasted less than a year after Biogen spinoff
HDA members handled 95.7% of US pharmaceutical distribution in 2016
HDA 2017-8 Factbook details rising wholesaler involvement
CVS Health will acquire Aetna in a mammoth $69-billion deal
Acquisition brings retail pharmacy and PBM together with a health insurer
Express Scripts unloads the rest of United BioSource
Private equity firm acquires UBC
EMA’s new home: Amsterdam
The Netherlands wins out in the competition to move the agency from London
More consolidation in drug wholesaling: AmerisourceBergen to buy H. D. Smith
$815-million deal to close in early 2018
Managing pharma auto fleets
A conversation with Jim Cleary, AmerisourceBergen
If CVS Health-Aetna doesn’t happen, something else will
Rumors of a $60-billion acquisition shake up healthcare services landscape—and what about Amazon?
Bye-bye QuintilesIMS; hello IQVIA
New identity stresses ‘human data science’
Walgreens-Rite Aid deal clears FTC review, finally
Revised deal brings 1,932 stores to Walgreens Boots Alliance
Catalent targets biologics with Cook Pharmica acquisition
Bloomington, IN, facility is the prize
Congressmen question CMS on Kymriah’s outcomes-based contracting
‘An unaffordable drug is 100 percent ineffective’
A conversation with Greg Flynn, Ashfield Healthcare US
FDA approves Novartis’ CAR-T therapy for leukemia, ushering in the gene therapy era
First gene therapy product in US; approval expedited by evidence of high cure rates
Gilead-Kite Pharma deal reverberates through cell-therapy field
Investors hope for a repeat of Gilead’s Sovaldi success
Mylan finalizes a DoJ settlement over EpiPen pricing
Observers are critical of the $465-million penalty as too lenient
PRA Health Sciences acquires Symphony Health Solutions, scrip and prescriber data provider
Leading CRO looks to better trial recruitment, outcomes research
Merck CEO, Kenneth Frazier, leaves Trump manufacturing council
A protest against not protesting; unclear consequences for pharma’s place on the White House council
EMA entertains relocation bids, readies a business-continuity plan
New location, following Brexit, will be decided in November
Vizient drug-pricing forecast predicts 7.61% increase in 2018 for hospital members
GPO for academic medical centers and other providers
UDG Healthcare expands its Ashfield commercialization services with two acquisitions
Cambridge BioMarketing brings orphan-drug expertise, and Vynamic brings branding and launch services
A conversation with Bijay Singh, DKSH
Maryland targets generic ‘price gouging’ as states pursue pharma-pricing controls
Assn. for Accessible Medicines files a federal suit against the state
HDA to hold its International Pharmaceutical Distribution Conference in Geneva
Fourth annual meeting will occur Oct. 16-17
Walgreens-Rite Aid merger falls away, replaced by sale of some stores
$325-million cancellation fee to be paid to Rite Aid
URAC plans a specialty-pharmacy workshop in conjunction with the NASP annual meeting
Specialty pharmacy accreditation attracts growing number of pharmacies
HDA honors 2017 DIANA winners, Lifetime Achievement Nexus winner
Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Michael McBride, Upsher-Smith Labs