UPS settles with DoJ over facilitating illicit online-pharmacy shipments
DoJ praises company for being a "good corporate citizen" while slamming it with a $40-million penalty
AmerisourceBergen has a buyer for its packaging business: Frazier Healthcare
AndersonBrecon--just formed a year ago--sells for $308 million
AmerisourceBergen exits Canadian drug distribution
How does the divestiture fit with ABC's new alliance with Walgreens and Alliance Boots?
Becton, Dickinson enters generic injectables market, with big plans for expansion
Company will focus on prefilled syringes, and addressing some of the ongoing drug shortages
Drug shortages continue to challenge health systems
More compounding-pharmacy recalls worsen the situation; FDA looks for new legislation
MeadWestvaco wins Healthcare Compliance Package of the Year award
Avive package changes pharmacy-dispensing practices; MWV also places with second-runner up
Walgreens-Alliance Boots sends its business to AmerisourceBergen--and will buy a piece of the company
Cardinal Health, losing 21% of its business, has 'prepared strategies to mitigate the impact of a Walgreens nonrenewal'
US pharma promotional spending dropped 8% in 2012, says Cegedim Strategic Data
Meanwhile, MD Mindset survey shows heightened interest in virtual sales calls
Who are specialty pharmacies, and can I be one too?
Lack of definitions, both for the businesses and the medical professionals within specialty pharmacy, creates an opportunity
REMS program becomes a competitive ploy in branded-generic patent disputes
FTC files an amicus curiae suit to support generics' claim of anticompetitive use of REMS
European Union, China finalize good-distribution practices (GDPs)
Broader quality management and more documentation of pharma logistics are the takeaways
CSafe targets last-mile temperature-controlled delivery
AcuTemp Courier container line is expanded
GS1 track-and-trace guidelines are published
A broad set of recommended practices for encoding, reading and transmitting serialized product data is finalized, but next steps are already in the works
Mud-slinging continues between PBMs and community pharmacists
is the pharma industry a 'innocent' bystander?
Better interoperability is the goal of an EHR vendor consortium
CommonWell Health Alliance, led by McKesson and Cerner, wants to create a private-industry-focused, neutral forum for resolving technical issues
Will crowd-sourced online search data become a better 'sentinel' for adverse event reporting?
Academic study finds evidence of an early warning system in anonymized Web searches
For the first time, spend decreased for 'traditional' drugs among the commercially insured in 2012, says Express Scripts
Annual Drug Trends report measures growth in specialty spending, nosedive in generics pricing; also, the idea of prescription 'choice architecture' to encourage better outcomes
HDMA's 2013 Distribution Management Award goes to GHX
Track-and-trace, serialized-product pilot demonstrates supply chain interoperability
Physician's sample closet unites branded, generic and OTC products
Intended to get patients on therapy quickly--and keep them there--the MedVantx sample closet addresses the problem of unfilled prescriptions for the newly diagnosed
DKSH, Swiss trading company, pushes 'market expansion services' for life sciences in Asia
Logistics and distribution are just the beginning of what it offers to deliver
GAO study and consumer polls find conflicting results in limiting pseudoephedrine access
Mixed results parallel similar efforts in controlled-substances regulation
Handheld analyzers are assisting in counterfeit identification
USP evaluates the Thermo Fisher Scientific TruScan
Sonexus Health: a new entrant in the specialty-pharma commercialization space
Company combines distribution, pharmacy and patient-assistance services
Sequestration effects on FDA and NIH: numbers are known, effects are not
FDA's cut is $209 million
Can pharmacy automation change the drug-compounding market dynamics?
Supplier of injectable-drug dispensing system sees new opportunities
Landmarks to sampling in a digitized healthcare environment
The accelerating adoption of electronic health records, e-prescribing and mobile technologies will change the conventions of sample distribution
Remedy Media launches wellness site with UC Berkeley
Web design is tailored to tablets, with scrolling screens and 'native content' for advertisers
Doximity.com, a physician-only website, is drawing 5,000 new members monthly
Site puts an emphasis on effective referrals and collaboration among physicians
2013 HDMA Distribution Management Conference
International collaboration emerges as a focus
