Below are 10 of the top pharmacy related stories published by Becker's Hospital Review in July, beginning with the most popular:
1. Pharmacist salaries in common work settings
Pharmacists who work at general merchandise stores have the highest median salary per year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
2. The pharmacies that received the most opioids in every state
A Veterans Affairs pharmacy in North Charleston, S.C., received the largest amount of opioid pills of all pharmacies nationwide between 2006 and 2012, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data.
3. GlaxoSmithKline to hire rivals' ex-finance director to oversee breakup
GlaxoSmithKline plans to hire former AstraZeneca and Novartis finance director Jonathan Symonds to manage its breakup.
4. Top 15 specialty pharmacies
Here is a ranking of the top 15 pharmacies that generated the most revenue from dispensing specialty pharmaceuticals in 2018.
5. Publix Pharmacy to deliver prescriptions to patients before hospital discharge
Publix Pharmacy will deliver prescriptions to patients before they are discharged from Beaufort (S.C.) Memorial Hospital under a new collaboration, the two organizations announced July 22.
6. Walgreens CMO to depart: 4 things to know
Walgreens CMO Patrick Carroll, MD, will leave the retail pharmacy giant to join health and wellness company Hims & Hers as its first CMO, the executive announced in a blog post July 9.
7. Trump plans exec order on drug pricing
President Donald Trump said he is preparing an executive order to lower prescription drug prices in the U.S. to the lowest price paid among other developed countries.
8. Medicare paid $26B for drugs that didn't make cut in Australia, Canada, UK
Medicare spent $26 billion in recent years on dozens of medicines that three other wealthy nations didn't recommend for coverage because they deemed them to be of little value, according to a new study.
9. 2019 drug price hikes running 5 times the rate of inflation
Pharmaceutical companies have raised the prices of 3,400 drugs this year, 17 percent more than during the same period last year, according to a new Rx Savings Solutions analysis.
10. 21-year-old died after rationing insulin, family says
Friends and family of a 21-year-old diabetic patient said Jesimya David Scherer-Radcliff died as a result of rationing insulin.