NEW DELHI: Welcoming the GST Council’s reduction in tax rates on essential cancer drugs, experts on Tuesday said that it is a crucial step and will make life-saving medicines more affordable and ...

Ongoing shortages of popular weight loss and diabetes drugs in the U.S. have spurred fierce competition between established ...

Having lived in Kilburn since 1968, and just up the road from the pharmacy for a decade, she is on friendly terms with the staff and enjoys stopping by for a chat. Like many high street chemists ...

Whether it’s prescription medication, painkillers or vitamins, many of us regularly pop pills. But if taken at the wrong time, or in the wrong combination, they can cause unexpected - and ...

Four triptans are more effective for acute migraine than newer, more expensive medications for this headache type, new research suggested. International guidelines generally endorse NSAIDs as the ...

If you’ve been to a pharmacy to pick up a prescription lately ... PBMs can do this because the three largest—CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and Optum Rx—control about 80% of the market.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Missouri, USA, Health insurer Cigna (NYSE: CI) and its pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts demanded that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) retract ...

The survey involved 1,006 people polled Aug. 16-18 via web and telephone. People should talk to their doctor about getting a weight-loss drug, rather than turning to an online pharmacy or telemedicine ...

Cigna is following through on promises to more aggressively defend its pharmacy benefit manager. On Tuesday, the healthcare company’s PBM, Express Scripts, sued the Federal Trade Commission over ...

Express Scripts, one of the country’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, sued the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Tuesday and demanded the agency retract a report saying the industry middlemen ...

Recommended Reading FTC slams pharmacy benefit managers in first report ... On Tuesday, the healthcare company’s PBM, Express Scripts, sued the Federal Trade Commission over the agency’s ...