Plenty of legal precedent already allows Medicare to determine what it will pay for healthcare goods and services, DOJ argued this week in defense of new Medicare drug price negotiations.
The California Department of Pharmacy has placed Sutter Coast Hospital Pharmacy on a three year probation, beginning July 23. The violation of proper sanitary protocols occurred in 2019 and involved compounding practices and procedures.
Moderna Inc. agreed to pay German biotechnology company Immatics NV as much as $1.8 billion in a broad-ranging, multiyear collaboration on developing cancer therapies using messenger RNA and other technologies.
Kroger will pay $1.2 billion to U.S. states, local governments and Native American tribes to settle the majority of claims that it fueled the opioid epidemic through lax oversight of its pill sales.
Scientists have begun investigating whether so-called miracle obesity drugs could be used to treat conditions such as dementia and alcohol addiction after recent trials pointed to the drugs' efficacy in treating serious health issues.