Category Archives: Pharmacy

Drug Offers Hope Against a Tough-to-Treat Blood Cancer

November 21, 2019 - 12:36 pm

Cancer, Hematology, Pharmacy

Patients with a form of blood cancer known as multiple myeloma who haven’t responded to other therapies might have a new weapon against the disease, researchers say. A drug called selinexor appeared to help patients with the blood and bone marrow cancer, according to a clinical trial involving 122 people. “This study proved that a

Many Drugstores Won’t Dispense Opioid Antidote as Required

January 17, 2019 - 2:07 pm

Addiction, Pharmacy

People who overdose on opioids have one lifeline, the drug naloxone, but two new studies find that many pharmacies won’t offer this lifesaving antidote without a doctor’s blessing. Though many states have passed laws mandating that naloxone be made available without a prescription, researchers from California found that fewer than 25 percent of pharmacies in

Generic Drugs Don’t Always Push Prices Down

Generic drugs tend to trigger big drops in the cost of their expensive, brand-name counterparts, but that has not been the case with the cancer drug commonly known as Gleevec (imatinib). There’s been only a small drop in the price of imatinib since a generic version was introduced to compete with Gleevec, a new study