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Report: Drugmakers facing steep pressure from payers to curb costs

The nation’s largest manager of employer prescription drug plan has been aggressively negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies, in what Wall Street notes as a continued trend of pricing pressures facing drugmakers. Reuters reports that Express Scripts on Monday came to a more favorable agreement with AbbVie Inc’s recently approved hep c treatment and largely will […]

California startup is rescuing unused prescription drugs and redistributing them

In nursing homes around the country, prescription drugs get thrown out in huge amounts regularly – for reasons like they just aren’t finished, there’s an allergic reaction or a patient passed away. Despite the overload of prescriptions present in nursing homes, they are forbidden by law from dispensing pills (unused or untouched) from one patient to another. This is […]

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