Drug Watch: Rare cancers (PDF) (March 2011)

Today’s approval means that FluMist is the first pharmacy-prescribed influenza vaccine that does not need to be given by a healthcare professional.

Participants cite the recent, ongoing popularity of GLP-1 drugs prescribed for weight loss.

When CMS begins negotiations for physician-administered drugs under the Inflation Reduction Act, providers, including those whose services are covered by commercial insurance, could see lowered reimbursement.

Whether Express Scripts wins its unique defamation lawsuit will depend on whether the PBM can prove the FTC made false statements. But winning the lawsuit may not be what the PBM is looking for.

More than half (60%) of patients in latest trial reached active remission and 41% stopped taking corticosteroid entirely.

Express Scripts alleges in its suit that the FTC followed “prejudice and politics, not evidence or sound economics,” and that there is no support for the assertion that the power of PBMs has increased over time.