AMA Against GOP Healthcare Plan Replacement
According to GOP leaders, the Medicaid program is fiscally unsustainable and they need to fix its finances by using a spending cap. Those talks about…
Articles by Nick Alexson
New Generation Pharmacy Opens in Carnegie
In Carnegie, Pennsylvania, a new kind of pharmacy has opened. Its main goal is to build a closer connection between patients and pharmacies. In the…
FDA Approves House Dust Mite Allergies Treatment Odactra
On March 1, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Odactra, a drug developed to treat house dust mite (HDM) allergies. The medication is manufactured…
Advocates VS Pharmaceutical Companies Donations
According to the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), some of the most important and largest advocacy groups who serve patients with serious diseases like…
Walmart’s Updated Application Will Allow Customers to Skip Lines
Walmart’s Pharmacy chain is one of the largest in the U.S. It brought the profit of about $20.6 billion in the last year. However, Walmart…
Visible Fungus in NECC’s Steroids
In 2012, the meningitis outbreak sickened 753 people and took the life of 64 people away. This fungal meningitis was caused by contaminated steroids (methylprednisolone),…
Compound Pharmacies Market Expand
Unlike retail pharmacies like Walmart, Walgreens, or Rite Aid, that sell products from pharmaceutical manufacturers, compounding pharmacies produce drugs in case if medication available on…
Walgreens and Rite Aid Merger
Everybody has known about the merger between Walgreens and Rite Aid for about two years already. The acquisition was expected to be finished in the…
Save Money on Prescription Drugs Effectively
Drugs can be quite expensive now, and not everyone has insurance coverage that covers their prescribed medications or makes the price lower with a co-pay….
Veterans Affairs Employees Accused of Stealing Drugs from Hospital and Selling Them on the Street
Three Veterans Affairs (VA) employees have been accused of stealing drugs from a Little Rock VA hospital. Their names are Alisha Pagan of Mabelvale (33),…