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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. The drugs include Lilly’s newly approved GLP-1 obesity drug Zepbound (tirzepatide), around a dozen of the company’s insulins and migraine drug Emgality (galcanezumab).

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Top 15 Diabetes Drugs in 2023 by 2022 Sales Statistics

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Diabetes remains a critical global challenge, affecting millions of lives and commanding significant attention from the medical, life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors. In its 2022 financial report, Sanofi reported that sales of the long-acting insulin dropped 27.6 percent in the fourth quarter and decreased 56.7 from $289.36.

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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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LillyDirect: New Home Delivery Service for Eli Lilly’s Diabetes, Weight Loss and Migraine Drugs

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Among its services, Lilly said LillyDirect provides disease management resources that include access to independent healthcare providers, personalized support and direct delivery of select Lilly medications to homes via third-party pharmacy dispensing services.

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FDA Warns About Compounded Versions of Ozempic and Wegovy

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GLP-1 stimulates insulin production, thus reducing blood glucose levels, and it interacts with the brain to suppress appetite and create a feeling of fullness. mg and 1 mg doses will be available to wholesalers for distribution to retail pharmacies. Despite this, Novo Nordisk doesn’t anticipate interruptions in supplying 1.7

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Pharma CEOs Grilled by Senate Committee About High Prescription Drug Prices

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They also blamed pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), third-party companies that serve as pharma middlemen, who select which drugs receive insurance coverage and charge drug companies rebates and fees for covering them. The companies are often integrated with pharmacies and insurers.

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Biosimilars vs. Interchangeable Biological Products: FDA Fact Check

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As a subset of biosimilars, interchangeable biological products can be substituted for the reference product at the pharmacy level, without the input of the prescribing physician. Significantly, insulin was deemed to be a biologic as of March 23, 2020, making it a reference product for the development of biosimilar versions.