Drug Channels

Walgreens is headed for a showdown with Washington State over Medicaid reimbursement rates. Per Walgreens official announcement yesterday: ...

Yup, I told you so. According to a Bloomberg article, Wal-Mart is now planning to expand its direct-to-payer (my term) pharmacy business to ...

President Obama has nominated Dr. Margaret Hamburg to be Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, you may not know ...

Yesterday, Judge Patti Saris approved the settlement in the long-running First Databank Average Wholesale Price (AWP) litigation, rejecting ...

Here is a news story that caught my attention last week: Some Drug Wholesalers Fall Ill From Pharma Consolidation Drug wholesaler stock pric...

Moody's just released an ominous list called the "Bottom Rung." It contains 283 companies that Moody's says are most likel...

Dow Jones interviewed me yesterday about Merck & Co's (MRK) proposed acquisition of Schering-Plough (SCP). See Drug Middlemen May F...

Given the heavy site traffic and comments (public and private) about Thursday’s importation posting ( Surprise! New Importation Bill Introdu...

Sometimes, I don’t like being right. In Tuesday’s post , I highlighted that unsafe drug importation is supported by both President Obama and...

The new version of Friday the 13th broke box office records a few weeks ago. So perhaps we should not be surprised that drug importation is ...

Teva Pharmaceutical has just launched a new set of "humorous" ads to convince consumers that generics are just as good as brands....

In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Obama said that we must “address the crushing cost of health care.” ( Full text ) Coinci...