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Why Is CVS Health Clinical Trial Services Closing?

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Leading health solutions company CVS Health recently disclosed that its clinical trial business will shut down just two years after its initiation in May 2021. The company will gradually wind down its CVS Health Clinical Trial Services unit with full exit by December 31, 2024.

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Pharmacy chain Walgreens plans to disrupt clinical trial sector

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Walgreens is the latest US retail pharmacy giant to have a go at disrupting the clinical trials industry, with the launch of a new business unit that will tap into its reserve of patient data, as well as the ability to recruit patients across its retail network. — Walgreens News (@WalgreensNews) June 14, 2022.

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Professionals and Patients Offer Mixed Views on Retail Pharmacy Chains’ Enthusiasm About Trials

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As several retail pharmacy chains proclaim a rosy outlook for ongoing efforts to expand their services into the clinical trials arena in the wake of the pandemic, traditional study site personnel and patients interviewed on the topic offered more mixed and nuanced concerns about the prospects for near-term success for such ventures.

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Professionals and Patients Offer Mixed Views on Retail Pharmacy Chains’ Enthusiasm About Trials

ACRP blog

As several retail pharmacy chains proclaim a rosy outlook for ongoing efforts to expand their services into the clinical trials arena in the wake of the pandemic, traditional study site personnel and patients interviewed on the topic offered more mixed and nuanced concerns about the prospects for near-term success for such ventures.

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IN FOCUS: Walgreens

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Pharmacy, health and beauty company Walgreens is ranked in our SOCIAL category in the 2022 Pharmaceutical Technology Excellence Rankings. Ramita Tandon, chief clinical trials officer, Walgreens. Pharmaceutical Technology Excellence Rankings - The Verdict.

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On Clinical Trials Day, CVS shares lessons learned from one year providing trial services

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In recent years the retail pharmacy chain has begun to delve more and more deeply into the healthcare sector – by constantly expanding the basic healthcare services offered at their instore Minute Clinics, and by buying into the health insurance insurance space with their $69 billion purchase of Aetna in 2017. Take us back to May 2020.

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CVS, Medable alliance aims to tackle diversity in clinical trials

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CVS Health has said it will beef up its clinical trials operations, improving its ability to recruit patients from a broad demographic spectrum, via an agreement with digital health company Medable. The post CVS, Medable alliance aims to tackle diversity in clinical trials appeared first on.