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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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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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Vaccine issues already?

World of DTC Marketing

Pfizer is having supplier issues, some people who received the vaccine are reporting side effects like Bell’s Palsy. In the meantime this administration is patting itself on the back for the quick development of vaccines. What assurances does the public have that every dose of vaccine is made to the highest quality standards?

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Pharmacy Owner Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges for Illegally Administering COVID-19 Vaccines to Children Under 12

FDA Law Blog

Richardson — On September 24, 2021, the owner of a pharmacy in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty to participating in a felony conspiracy to convert government property and to commit health care fraud in connection with the illegal vaccination of minors between the ages of 7 to 11 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

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Pharmacy chain Walgreens plans to disrupt clinical trial sector

pharmaphorum

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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Why Is CVS Health Clinical Trial Services Closing?

XTalks

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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IN FOCUS: Walgreens

Pharmaceutical Technology

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. Operating nearly 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the U.S.

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