Senate panel asks CVS and four other pharmacy middlemen to testify about drug prices

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Senate panel asks CVS and four other pharmacy middlemen to testify about drug prices https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/12/senate-panel-asks-cvs-and-other-middlemen-to-testify-about-drug-prices.html The Senate Finance Committee said Tuesday it invited five major pharmacy benefit managers to testify before Congress about high prescription drug costs in the U.S. Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the committee’s ranking member, asked Cigna, CVS, […]

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2 more blood pressure drug recalls for cancer risk; 4 in one week

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

2 more blood pressure drug recalls for cancer risk; 4 in one week https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/2-more-blood-pressure-drug-recalls-for-cancer-risk-4-in-one-week/103-c9af25f8-29e4-4922-94be-eb5539d90343 The emergence of a new potential human carcinogen in the string of recalls has the FDA ‘deeply concerned.’ Pharmaceutical companies issued two more recalls for blood pressure medications on Friday because of potential cancer-causing impurities, making it four recalls in one […]

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