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Eli Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy for Home Delivery of Drugs

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LillyDirect Pharmacy Solutions, Eli Lilly’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) drugs website, is teaming up with Amazon Pharmacy to deliver select medications to people’s homes. Physicians can send prescriptions for their patients either to LillyDirect Pharmacy Solutions or Amazon Pharmacy.

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Disruption in healthcare is coming

World of DTC Marketing

Between 2019 and 2021, Alphabet’s venture-capital arms, Google Ventures, and Gradient Ventures, and its private-equity unit, CapitalG, made about 100 deals, a quarter of Alphabet’s combined total, in life sciences and health care. Then there is the cost of generic drugs.

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SmithRx Takes on Diabetes, Partners with TheracosBio for Brenzavvy Distribution

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SmithRx, a pharmacy benefits management (PBM) company, joined forces with TheracosBio to facilitate patients’ access to the newly approved type 2 diabetes medication, Brenzavvy (bexagliflozin), through the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company platform. ” What is SmithRx?

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RxPass, Amazon’s New Prescription Drug Program, Offers Common Meds for a Flat Fee of $5

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As Amazon continues to ramp up its healthcare portfolio, the online behemoth rolled out RxPass last week, a flat fee drug program through which customers can buy an unlimited amount of commonly prescribed generic medications for $5 a month. The list of available medicines includes about 50 generic drugs.

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Drug discovery hotspots: India’s Genome Valley

Drug Discovery World

Could India become an important centre of drug discovery innovation? Diana Spencer explores the evolution of the Hyderabad life sciences hub. The pharmacy of the world In the global pharmaceuticals market, India ranks third worldwide for production by volume.

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How celebrity investor Mark Cuban is tackling out-of-control drug prices

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American entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban tells us why he and his partners launched the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC), a public-benefit corporation and online pharmacy that provides patients access to medications at a lower cost. . “Manufacturers get a bad rap as being the source of high pricing for patient meds.

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Quebec Prohibits Financial Assistance by Drug Manufacturer for Patients’ Drug Costs

Pharma in Brief

It is now prohibited in Quebec for a drug manufacturer, wholesaler or “intermediary” ( e.g. , pharmacy banner) to pay or reimburse all or part of a patient’s cost of a medication listed on the Quebec List of Medications unless the medication falls within an exception set out in the new regulation.