Novo Nordisk reimburses its staff who've been prescribed the drugs it develops — including its expensive weight loss drug Wegovy, Bloomberg reported Nov. 15. The drugmaker employs about 21,000 people in Denmark. 

Walgreens will close locations outside of its 24-hour stores on Thanksgiving Day — a first for the company announced weeks after pharmacists at U.S. drugstore chains staged a walkout. 

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists rolled out a national membership organization for pharmacy technicians Nov. 16. 

Pharmacies have long faced "clawback fees" from pharmacy benefit managers, and a federal answer to the issue is causing another problem, KFF Health News reported Nov. 15. 

Drones, robots and automated technologies are increasingly deployed across the healthcare landscape to speed workflows and improve efficiency. For pharmacists, amid a nationwide staffing shortage, tech is allowing them to work at the top of their license and serve more patients.

Three years after Mallinckrodt filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the Dublin-based drugmaker said Nov. 14 it has stabilized its business. 

Pittsburgh-based UPMC's Center for Connected Medicine teamed up with KLAS Research to survey 25 health system pharmacy leaders whose systems operate an average of seven ambulatory pharmacies each. 

Denmark-based Novo Nordisk is limiting its supply of insulin products, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists' drug shortage database. 

A year after the FDA found shredded quality documents at an Intas Pharmaceuticals drug manufacturing facility in India, Intas' parent company Accord Healthcare resumed making cisplatin, which has been in dire shortage for months.

The nation's second-largest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, is leaning into Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs' business plan by selling drugs priced by their acquisition cost, pharmacy dispensing and service costs.

We're all often guilty of it. Being so busy that we begin to rush. I often need to take a figurative and literal breath to remember why I – and I'm sure many of us – became pharmacists in the first place: to help people lead healthier lives.

Boston-based Verve Therapeutics presented strong findings Nov. 12 for a gene therapy candidate aimed at disabling the gene linked to low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. 

Novo Nordisk will invest more than $6 billion to expand manufacturing facilities in Denmark, the company said Nov. 10. The facility will support increased production capacity for its GLP-1 drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, and other chronic disease treatments. 

Long-awaited findings from an international study of more than 17,000 patients showed the weight loss drug Wegovy reduced the risk of having a heart attack or stroke, and the risk of dying from a heart attack.

As applications for pharmacy schools and residency programs wither, hospital pharmacy leaders are warily preparing for a shortage of clinical pharmacists. 

Despite financial headwinds, the healthcare industry is plugging money and resources into home infusion service lines, according to Provident Healthcare Partners.

The FDA on Nov. 9 granted approval to Ixchiq, the first vaccine to protect against chikungunya virus. 

The chief medical officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Kevin Ban, MD, will exit his role as of Nov. 10, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's.

Walgreens is planning to lay off about 5% of its corporate workforce, or 267 employees, the Chicago Tribune reported Nov. 9.

Hospital and health system pharmacy leaders might be missing out on big-picture goals in "emerging frontiers" as they extinguish long-standing issues, such as rising healthcare costs and a pharmacy technician shortage, according to an Oct. 7 article from McKinsey.