WVPA Executive Director Richard Stevens attended yesterday's Public Employee Insurance Agency Finance Board meeting when the 2019-20 benefit plan was approved with no premium increases or cuts in benefits. The Board's action follows Governor Jim Justice's call for maintaining the current benefits [Read more...]
Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline are combining their over-the-counter drugs and healthcare products to create a new joint venture. The drugs include well-known brands, such as the painkillers Advil and Excedrin, Sensodyne toothpaste, Tums and the vitamin brands Centrum and Caltrate. The companies plan [Read more...]
The Drug Enforcement Administration and drug distributors failed to address the opioid epidemic in West Virginia, revealed a report out today from the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee. The Committee spent 18 months on the investigation in West Virginia, which has the highest rate of [Read more...]
According to The Washington Post newspaper, December 9, executives at more than a dozen generic-drug companies has a form of shorthand to describe how they conducted business, insider lingo worked out over steak dinner, cocktail receptions and rounds of golf. The "sandbox," according to [Read more...]