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

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Eli Lilly launched LillyDirect this week, an online service that provides access to the company’s medicines, including its newly approved weight loss drug Zepbound (tirzepatide). Through LillyDirect, patients can send prescriptions to LillyDirect Pharmacy Solutions for home delivery of drugs, which are shipped free of charge.

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A history of the pharmaceutical industry

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The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. Merck in Germany was possibly the earliest company to move in this direction. pharmaphorum looks at its evolution over the centuries. America’s pharmaceutical founding fathers. 1900s – Aspirin arrives.

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For neurological disease, solving measurement is the first and biggest hurdle to re-imagining treatment

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And while pharma companies are working hard to find treatments for these diseases, they have a major problem that must be addressed before that work can be done effectively: the lack of objective, quantitative measurement tools for assessing the progression – or even the presence or absence – of these conditions.

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Which Arthritis Painkiller Works the Fastest?

The Pharma Data

I Have A Doctorate In Pharmacy, But Everything I Learned About Pain Relief In Pharmacy School Is Dead Wrong! Which is how I got into pharmacy — after all, what better way to spend your life than by removing illness from the world. . … And then got my Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.

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Democrats agree last-ditch deal to save drug pricing plans

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Medicare would negotiate up to 10 drugs per year starting in 2023, with the prices taking effect two years later, rising to 20 medicines per year in 2028. “This discourages drug companies from abusing laws to prolong their monopolies, while encouraging investments in research and development of new cures.”

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Pharma CEOs Grilled by Senate Committee About High Prescription Drug Prices

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Allocation of Profits, PBMs Under Fire The CEOs defended high prescription drug prices saying that a big chunk of pharma profits go towards funding the research and development of new medicines. Murphy interrogated this claim and specifically questioned the way companies allocate revenue.

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How Trump’s Canadian Drug Importation Executive Order Changes Things

Pharmacy Checkers

Licensed pharmacies in many other countries are safe and charge much lower prices than those in the United States. 2) Allow for the re-importation of insulin. A handful of states have passed importation legislation to allow state-licensed, wholesale pharmacies to import from Canadian wholesale pharmacies. It makes sense.

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