XTalks

MARCH 15, 2024

LillyDirect Pharmacy Solutions, Eli Lilly’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) drugs website, is teaming up with Amazon Pharmacy to deliver select medications to people’s homes. Physicians can send prescriptions for their patients either to LillyDirect Pharmacy Solutions or Amazon Pharmacy.

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XTalks

MAY 24, 2023

According to the company, it is an attempt to focus on its core businesses which include retail pharmacy, health insurance, prescription drug coverage and health care and wellness. CVS is known for its retail pharmacies, and perhaps the clinical trials unit was not a strategic fit for the company.

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XTalks

AUGUST 30, 2022

One of the biggest challenges with developing therapies to treat CNS disorders is the delivery of systemically administered investigational products (IPs) to the brain, which is limited by the blood-brain barrier. Some methods of direct CNS administration include intrathecal, intraparenchymal and intracerebroventricular (ICV) delivery.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In 2023, Arexvy captured two-thirds of US RSV vaccine sales, largely through contracts with major pharmacies. The most common side effects in the first season included injection site pain, fatigue, muscle aches, headache and joint pain, generally mild to moderate and resolving within a few days. Nevertheless, GSK maintains its market lead.

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XTalks

JANUARY 31, 2023

As Amazon continues to ramp up its healthcare portfolio, the online behemoth rolled out RxPass last week, a flat fee drug program through which customers can buy an unlimited amount of commonly prescribed generic medications for $5 a month. It also purchased primary care company One Medical in a mammoth $3.9 billion deal in July.

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XTalks

JULY 28, 2020

Now, results from a new study conducted by researchers at the UC San Francisco (UCSF) School of Pharmacy and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), have challenged drugmakers’ understanding of the effects of excipients.

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XTalks

JANUARY 23, 2025

Increases ranged from hundreds to thousands of percent compared to the National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC), which is an estimate of how much it costs a pharmacy to acquire a drug. PBMs serve as intermediaries between insurers, pharmacies and drug manufacturers, negotiating discounts and managing drug formularies.

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