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  • Walgreens Flu Index heat map indicates high flu incidence across America

    DEERFIELD, Ill. - This week's Walgreens Flu Index report for the week of March 6 indicated Arizona, Mississippi and Texas were the top three states experiencing the highest incidences of influenza across the country. And while Mississippi topped the list in greatest flu activity gains as well, flu incidence appears to be gaining significantly in Kentucky and Hawaai as well. 
     
    For the week of March 6, the top 10 markets with flu activity were: 
     
    1. El Paso, Texas (Las Cruces, N.M.);

  • FDA, Amarin reach settlement on off-label use promotion

    NEW YORK — Amarin announced Wednesday that New York’s Southern District Court had approved its proposed settlement with the Food and Drug Administration, reached Tuesday, over the promotion of off-label use for its Vascepa (icosapent ethyl) capsules. 
     

  • Lupin completes Gavis acquisition

    MUMBAI and BALTIMORE — Lupin announced Wednesday that it had completed its acquisition of Gavis, which includes Gavis Pharmaceuticals and Novel Laboratories, for about $880 million. 
     
    Lupin said the acquisition will grow the company’s footprint in the U.S. generics market and expands its dermatology, controlled substance product and high value and niche generics pipeline. With the acquisition, Lupin also gains its first manufacturing site in the United States — Gavis’ New Jersey manufacturing facility. 

  • CMS plan to boost MTM gains traction in Congress

    “Better care, smarter spending, healthier people.”

  • CVS Health to offer naloxone without prescription in 23 states by month's end

    WOONSOCKET, R.I. - CVS Health announced Monday that it will expand access to the opioid overdose-reversal medication naloxone at the end of March at its CVS Pharmacy locations in eight new states, including: Connecticut, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia and Vermont.  
     
    Under a physician-approved protocol permitted by the state, CVS Pharmacy will be able to dispense naloxone to patients in these states without the need for an individual prescription.
     

  • TherapeuticsMD launches Rx prenatal that's certified vegan and certified kosher

    BOCA RATON, Fla. - TherapeuticsMD recently announced the launch of vitaMedMD's newest prescription prenatal multivitamin, vitaTrue, adding to its prenatal line consisting of vitaPearl, vitaMedMD One Rx, vitaMedMD Plus Rx and vitaMedMD RediChew Rx. 
     

  • FamilyWize savings card passes $1B saved milestone

    BETHLEHEM, Pa. — FamilyWize a community service partnership that offers a free prescription savings card and app announced Thursday that the card has saved people more than $1 billion since 2005.
     

  • Targeting better patient outcomes through care transitions, adherence

    Here’s a fact that keeps health plan administrators and anyone else responsible for budgeting health costs awake at night: 1-in-5 hospital patients ends up back in the hospital within 30 days of their discharge. And the biggest factors pulling them back all have to do with medications — either through medication errors, nonadherence or adverse drug events.

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