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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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STAT+: Civica Rx begins selling its first generic drug as it tries to overhaul the pharmaceutical supply chain

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In the latest bid to address high prescription drug costs, a nonprofit plans to sell a cheaper generic version of an expensive cancer medicine in the U.S.

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Billionaire Mark Cuban steps up assault on US medicine prices

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Mark Cuban, billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, just got involved in the online pharmacy business, promising to “shield consumers from inflated drug prices.” Ulcerative colitis therapy mesalamine can be had from the online pharmacy for $32.40 All drugs are priced at cost plus 15% !

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Even Drugs Manufactured in America are not “Made in the USA”

Pharmacy Checkers

One of our more popular Ask PharmacyChecker posts is called “ How can I determine where a drug is manufactured? ” But here’s something different to chew on: Even drugs that our research categorized as manufactured in the U.S. has the pharmaceutical ingredients it needs to make drugs that treat people with Covid-19.

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

Pharma in Brief

At the end of 2016, the previous Quebec government prohibited a number of common commercial practices by drug manufacturers and pharmacists with the aim of fostering greater price competition between drug manufacturers and reducing the cost of the public drug insurance scheme. [1].

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China Opens the Door to Personal Medicine Imports and Third-Party Online Platform Sales

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A new Chinese law (in effect as of December 1, 2019) makes third-party online platform medicine sales legal, appropriately ends a draconian definition of counterfeit drugs, and effectively decriminalizes personal drug importation, but with a lot of gray! Decriminalizing Personal Drug Importation and Redefining “Counterfeit”.

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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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