Subcommittee Points to a Turf War

All drugs should be compounded under suitable quality standards, but who should be ensuring those standards among ...

APRIL 6, 2018

Hold On for Another Bumpy Ride in 2018

2017 was a bumpy ride, and 2018 will be more of the same for pharmacists and all the stakeholders trying to get ...

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Oncology Fuels Strong Specialty Pipeline

The specialty drug pipeline for 2018 is poised to deliver huge growth and clinical breakthroughs for a relatively ...

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

340B Program in the Crosshairs

Recent governmental actions endanger the controversial 340B drug pricing program, even though a powerful ...

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

FDA Approves New Indication for Gilotrif

Boehringer Ingelheim's Gilotrif gets a new indication for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic ...

JANUARY 18, 2018

2017 in Review: Fighting for the Specialty Market & Pt Journey

Every year a 2012 statement made by Phil Hagerman, RPh, the CEO at Diplomat, becomes a little truer: Specialty is ...

DECEMBER 30, 2017

More Study Needed on Ataluren

The FDA’s Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee was placed in an unusual position in ...

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Top 10 Reasons to Seek Accreditation

SPC asked experts why a specialty pharmacy should seek accreditation. Safety, quality and consistency were among ...

JULY 19, 2017

Can Employers Move the Needle On Drug Costs?

Everyone from Congress to patients is making a fuss about the cost of specialty drugs, but it’s the employers ...

MAY 17, 2017

Double-Digit Specialty Growth Not a Guarantee

Washington—Specialty drug spending growth might be slowing down—at least a bit, according to Doug Long, ...

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

CDC Report: Rural America May Kill You

A new CDC study demonstrates that Americans living in rural areas are more likely to die from five leading causes ...

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

CSTD Test Protocol Stirs Debate

Poor NIOSH. The agency in charge of protecting worker safety just wanted a way to evaluate whether closed-system ...

FEBRUARY 22, 2017