New Drug Approvals

JULY 25, 2025

2] [3] Vamorolone is a novel and fully synthetic glucocorticoid developed by Santhera Pharmaceuticals. 10] Society and culture Legal status Santhera Pharmaceuticals signed an agreement with Catalyst Pharmaceuticals for the North American commercialization of vamorolone in July 2023. [20] Santhera Pharmaceuticals Holding AG.

FDA

Sygnature Discovery

AUGUST 4, 2025

The ceremony took place on Wednesday 30 th July 2025, recognising Simon’s outstanding contribution to science and the pharmaceutical industry. Dr Simon Hirst, CEO and Founder of Sygnature Discovery has been awarded a prestigious honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) by The University of Nottingham.

Doctors

Drug Channels

DECEMBER 12, 2024

However, provider pushback has limited specialty pharmacies' share gains, so that buy-and-bill remains the most common channel for these products. Payers adoption of white baggingand providers push backreflect the ongoing battle for oncology margin in U.S. drug channels. drug channels.

Specialty Pharmacies

Advarra

MARCH 6, 2025

Over the years, Advarra has reviewed a wide range of clinical research studies and worked every day alongside leading pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical researchers, and healthcare institutions. Without clinical research, these medical breakthroughs would remain out of reach for patients.

Clinical Research

The Pharma Data

JUNE 6, 2025

Global Pharmaceutical Contract Sales Outsourcing Market to Reach $24.8 Billion by 2030: Strategic Insights, Regional Trends, and Technological Shifts Reshaping the Landscape The global pharmaceutical contract sales outsourcing (CSO) market is entering a transformative phase, with its value expected to grow from $17.3

Pharmaceutical Companies

Drug Patent Watch

JANUARY 7, 2025

Generic drugs are pharmaceutical products that contain the same active ingredients as their brand-name counterparts. It’s always a good idea to compare prices at different pharmacies. What Are Generic Drugs? FAQs Q: Are generic drugs always cheaper than brand-name medications? A: In most cases, yes.

Drugs

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JULY 28, 2025

Unsuitable for standard retail yet not requiring the full infrastructure of specialty pharmacies, these products face unique access barriers that traditional distribution models cant address effectively. Alternative channels that bring together tech-driven hub services and integrated pharmacy networks to maximize profitable revenue growth.

Specialty Pharmacies

Codon

JULY 14, 2025

My goal is not only to tell the story of a pharmaceutical staple but to share what my decades-long work in evidence synthesis in epidemiology has taught me about researching scientific history. I could not find, that it hath, or ever had, any place in pharmacy, or any fuch qualities, as I fufpected afcribed to it by the botanifts.

Treatment

Fierce BioTech

JULY 7, 2025

Choosing the right specialty pharmacy partner is critical. Choosing the right specialty pharmacy partner is critical. Especially when you’re treating rare, chronic and complex conditions. You need a partner who delivers more than just logistics management, therapy fulfillment and generalized patient care.

Specialty Pharmacies

Drug Channels

APRIL 23, 2025

Last week, we examined the growing concentration of specialty drug dispensing revenues among the largest pharmacies. See The Top 15 Specialty Pharmacies of 2024: How PBMs, Health Systems, and Independents Are Shaping the Market. Today, we dive deeper. Drawing from DCIs new 2025 Economic Report on U.S.

Pharmacy

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

AUGUST 11, 2025

11, 2025 post share post print email shutterstock.com/ PeopleImages.com - Yuri A Sponsored content By GoodRx SPONSORED CONTENT BY While direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising is effective at top-of-funnel awareness and driving action early in the patient journey, it cannot pull through conversions at the pharmacy. Another paradox: while U.S.

Marketing

Drug Channels

APRIL 15, 2025

In todays fast-moving pharmaceutical marketplace, insight is everything. Why Professionals Choose DCI eLearning These modules were built from the ground up for pharmaceutical professionalsfrom seasoned experts to newcomers looking to understand the industry's complex web of relationships. pharmaceutical distribution.

Specialty Pharmacies

Drug Channels

MAY 20, 2025

Fein, president of Drug Channels Institute (DCI) and the author of Drug Channels , invites you to join him for DCIs new live video webinar: Whats Next for Retail Pharmacy: Data, Debate, and Disruption This event will be broadcast live on: Friday, June 20, 2025 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. You can reset the cart by entering 0 in the quantity field.)

Pharmacy

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

AUGUST 21, 2024

Pharmaceuticals like the in-demand GLP-1 drugs for obesity are expected to drive increases in healthcare spending in 2025, per a new employer survey.

Pharmacy

Drug Channels

JANUARY 13, 2025

Registered attendees include senior executives from pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacy benefit managers, health systems, physician practices, pharmacies, wholesalers, and more. Speakers and panelists include top industry executives and subject matter experts from throughout the drug channel.

Pharmacy

Drug Channels

MARCH 15, 2022

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers , available for purchase and immediate download. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers , our 13th edition, provides a comprehensive, fact-based, and non-partisan tool for understanding the entire U.S. I am pleased to announce our new 2022 Economic Report on U.S.

Pharmacy

Drug Channels

APRIL 1, 2024

Consider two apparently unrelated drug channel anomalies: In McKesson’s 2023 fiscal year, CVS bought $75 billion in pharmaceuticals from McKesson’s wholesale business—a jump of more than 35% compared with the previous year. Despite skyrocketing sales for anti-obesity GLP-1 drugs, many retail pharmacies are losing money on every prescription.

Pharmacy

Drug Channels

JULY 11, 2022

Informa Connect's Hub and Specialty Pharmacy Models West. September 14-15, 2022 Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina | San Diego, CA www.informaconnect.com/hub-specialty-pharmacy-west. Delivered as a Hybrid Event. Drug Channels readers will save 10% off the current registration rate when they use code 22DC10 *. O’Brien, Pharm.

Specialty Pharmacies

Drug Channels

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Consider two apparently unrelated drug channel anomalies: In McKesson’s 2023 fiscal year, CVS bought $75 billion in pharmaceuticals from McKesson’s wholesale business—a jump of more than 35% compared with the previous year. Despite skyrocketing sales for anti-obesity GLP-1 drugs, many retail pharmacies are losing money on every prescription.

Pharmacy

Drug Channels

OCTOBER 12, 2021

specialty pharmacies—via white, brown, and clear bagging—continue to displace buy-and-bill distribution channels for provider-administered oncology drugs. The battle for the specialty patient pits hospitals against insurers—and their respective specialty pharmacies. Coming out of the pandemic (maybe?),

Specialty Pharmacies

Drug Channels

APRIL 24, 2025

Jeanine Robertson, Director of Pharmacy Network Relations, Liviniti WHAT TO EXPECT Expect bold, candid discussionsnot just presentations.

Pharmacy

Drug Channels

OCTOBER 13, 2022

pharmaceutical distribution, payment, and reimbursement system. The other is my mapping of the insurer/PBM/specialty pharmacy/provider organizations that now dominate U.S. But there are two slides that people seem to appreciate the most. One is my chart showing the key channel flows within the entire U.S. drug channels.

Specialty Pharmacies

Drug Channels

MAY 9, 2022

Informa Connect’s Hub and Specialty Pharmacy Models East. June 28-30, 2022 | Sheraton Parsippany | Parsippany, NJ www.informaconnect.com/hub-specialty-pharmacy. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey Lauren Powell, MPA, PhD, Vice President, US Health Equity & Community Wellness, Takeda Pharmaceuticals PLUS! Attorney, U.S.

Specialty Pharmacies

Drug Channels

MARCH 14, 2022

Asembia’s Specialty Pharmacy Summit 2022. Asembia's Specialty Pharmacy Summit 2022 is back! This is a must-attend event for anyone connected to specialty pharmacy. Plus, Doug Long from IQVIA and I will again lead the Featured Session, titled The Specialty Pharmacy Industry Update and Outlook. Gottlieb’s excellent book.

Specialty Pharmacies

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. This post examines the Zarzamora pharmacy and prescribing red flags decision. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy, Nos.

Pharmacy

Drug Channels

MARCH 18, 2025

Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers is now available for purchase and immediate download. Pharmacies and PBMs, Examining $683 Billion Market Review pricing/license options and download the full 2025 report Order before March 31, 2025 to receive special discounted pricing! Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers.

Pharmacy

Drug Channels

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Informa Connect’s Trade and Channel Strategies December 10-12, 2024 at the W Hotel in Philadelphia, PA Drug Channels readers save 10% with code 24DC10 * Pharmacy and distribution models are growing increasingly complex. Is my organization haemorrhaging money to stay afloat with the shift to alternative distribution and pharmacy models?

Specialty Pharmacies

Drug Patent Watch

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Have you ever found yourself scratching your head at the pharmacy counter, wondering why your “3-month supply” of medication doesn’t quite match up with the calendar? In this article, we’ll dive deep into this pharmaceutical conundrum… Source You’re not alone.

Pharmacy

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JULY 22, 2025

This database now covers the 50 best-selling pharmaceutical products and has been updated to reflect current patent expiry expectations. This database now covers the 50 best-selling pharmaceutical products and has been updated to reflect current patent expiry expectations. Track when they’ll expire. Track when they’ll expire.

FDA

The Pharma Data

AUGUST 17, 2020

Amazon has entered the pharmaceutical market by launching ‘Amazon Pharmacy’ in India. . The Amazon Pharmacy offers prescription and over the counter drugs as well as basic health devices. . Amazon first entered pharmaceuticals in 2017, and bought the home pharmaceutical delivery service ‘PilPack’ in 2018.

Pharmacy

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MAY 30, 2024

Kirschenbaum — Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act does not prohibit pharmaceutical manufacturers from imposing conditions on the distribution of discounted drugs to covered entities in the program. Novartis Pharmaceuticals v.

Pharmacy

Drug Channels

OCTOBER 9, 2024

distribution and dispensing channels for prescription drugs are undergoing significant evolution and consolidation as the changing economics of pharmaceuticals challenge conventional business models. Read on for five key pricing, pharmacy, provider, and manufacturer trends that are driving the U.S. drug wholesaling industry.

Pharmacy

Drug Channels

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while we put the finishing touches on DCI’s new 2024-25 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors. The 340B contract pharmacy market shows little sign of slowing down. For an updated look at what’s next for the 340B contract pharmacy market, join Adam J.

Pharmacy

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MARCH 24, 2024

By Faraz Siddiqui — As drug manufacturers battle the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) in federal courts over the role of 340B contract pharmacies, an Eighth Circuit decision to uphold a 2021 Arkansas law may render those cases inconsequential in that state. Code Ann. § 23-92-604(c)(1), (2) (Act 1103). McClain , No.

Pharmacy

Drug Channels

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In 2022, specialty pharmacies—via white, brown, and clear bagging—now constitute a meaningful share of the distribution channels for provider-administered oncology drugs. However, buy-and-bill appears to have rebounded substantially at hospitals. Read on for full details and the latest data.

Specialty Pharmacies

Drug Channels

APRIL 8, 2022

Michael discusses patient support challenges that are unique to specialty-lite pharmaceuticals. He goes on to describe four new categories of patient solutions and pharmacy models specific to this growing market segment.

Specialty Pharmacies

Drug Channels

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I put the finishing touches on DCI's new 2023-24 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors. Click here to see the original post from May 2023. Today, I examine these PBM-owned GPOs and then speculate on five plausible explanations for their existence.

Pharmacy