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Dispensing Pharmacy Packaging Machines: COVID-19 Impact

Pharma Mirror

The ability to repackage and bar code drugs to the unit of usage is becoming increasingly necessary in health-system pharmacies. Benefits for pharmacies that invest in a high-throughput unit dose packing machine include improved productivity and management of bar-coded medicine stock.

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The Big Three PBMs’ 2025 Formulary Exclusions: Humira, Stelara, Private Labels, and the Shaky Future for Pharmacy Biosimilars

Drug Channels

For 2025, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)Caremark (CVS Health), Express Scripts (Cigna), and Optum Rx (United Health Group)have again each excluded hundreds of drugs from their standard formularies. You can find our updated counting below.

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Breaking Down the Cost of Generic Drug Production: Understanding the Factors Influencing Affordability

Drug Patent Watch

As we navigate the complex world of healthcare, it's easy to overlook the intricacies of generic drug production. Generic drug production involves replicating a brand-name medication's active ingredient, formulation, and dosage. The quality and purity of these ingredients can greatly impact the final product's efficacy and safety.

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Leading retail pharmacies in pharma

Pharmaceutical Technology

Increasing diagnosis of chronic diseases is expected to lead to fast growth in retail pharmacies. The rising incidence of long-standing diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer requires prolonged medication and, thus, drives the growth and need for retail pharmacies in the market. Speciality care.

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Leading speciality pharmacies in pharma

Pharmaceutical Technology

Speciality pharmacies play a crucial role in medication dosing, disease and side effects management, and patient care. Speciality pharmacies provide comprehensive medications for individuals with serious medical conditions requiring complex treatments, including cancer, cystic fibrosis, haemophilia, hepatitis, HIV, and others.

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Eli Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy for Home Delivery of Drugs

XTalks

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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Exclusive: Profiling Manufacturers’ Limited and Exclusive Pharmacy Networks for Specialty Drugs

Drug Channels

This Valentine's Day, what could be more romantic than a deep dive into the relationships between manufacturers of specialty drugs and the pharmacies they choose for their limited and exclusive specialty pharmacy networks. As you’ll see, a typical network contains only five specialty pharmacies.