Thirty-seven hospitals in two states have filed a lawsuit in Marshall County, West Virginia, against numerous opioid manufacturers, distributors and several individuals, according to WV MetroNews, late April 29. Stephen Farmer of law firm Farmer, Cline and Campbell announced the suit, calling [Read more...]
In a April 12 letter to West Virginia licensed pharmacies, the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy issued the following: "On June 25, 2018, the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy ("the Board") voted to prohibit the sale of non-FDA approved cannabidiol ("CBD") products in the pharmacy setting. After [Read more...]
The Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma, agreed to pay $270 million to settle claims by Oklahoma that illegal marketing of prescription painkillers created an opioid epidemic that devastated local communities. The world's first drug for postpartum depression, Zulresso, cleared a [Read more...]
According to a The Washington Post as drug prices have soared, lawmakers and patient advocates have pushed the federal government to deploy for the first time a powerful deterrent: a legal provision that allows it to suspend a drugmaker's patent and license someone else to produce the drug. Bob [Read more...]
