pharmaceuticals

Paying People To Get Vaccines: The Ultimate Economic Stimulus?
Paying People To Get Vaccines: The Ultimate Economic Stimulus?
December 02, 2020  |  Coronavirus

Among the economic principles you’ll find in textbooks: People do what they find rewarding. That includes preventive health, where it takes some incentives to get...

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Prescription Apps Ranked As America Takes Its Medicine
Prescription Apps Ranked As America Takes Its Medicine
November 20, 2020  |  Mobile Applications

If 2020 is the year that telemedicine went prime time, it’s no shock to the system that prescription pharmaceuticals are taking a similar, digital direct-to-consumer...

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Prescription Savings Apps Help The Medicine Go Down
Prescription Savings Apps Help The Medicine Go Down
October 08, 2020  |  Mobile Applications

There’s no field of commercial medicine that’s been more impacted by the digital shift than … medicine itself. Proliferation of Rx savings apps shows a...

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Report: UnitedHealth Buys Online Pharmacy Startup DivvyDose
Report: UnitedHealth Buys Online Pharmacy Startup DivvyDose
September 30, 2020  |  Healthcare

UnitedHealth Group Inc., the world’s largest healthcare company by revenue, has purchased DivvyDose, the Illinois-based online pharmacy startup, for about $300 million, sources told CNBC....

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GoodRx’s IPO Shows Disruption Could Be The Cure For Costly Prescriptions
GoodRx’s IPO Shows Disruption Could Be The Cure For Costly Prescriptions
September 23, 2020  |  Healthcare

On a day when the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index fell more than 3 percent, one new issue stood out. Shares of GoodRx soared 53 percent...

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Healthcare Tech Company Truepill Raises $75M To Expand
Healthcare Tech Company Truepill Raises $75M To Expand
September 09, 2020  |  Investments

Truepill, an online pharmacy powering delivery for direct-to-consumer healthcare brands, announced Wednesday (Sept. 9) that it closed on a $75 million Series C funding round....

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India’s Pharmacists Call For Shutdown Of Amazon Entry
India’s Pharmacists Call For Shutdown Of Amazon Entry
August 17, 2020  |  Amazon

A group that says it represents 850,000 pharmacists in India wants the government to shut down Amazon’s new pharmaceutical delivery service in the country. In...

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Amazon Launches Online Pharmacy In Bengaluru, India
Amazon Launches Online Pharmacy In Bengaluru, India
August 14, 2020  |  Amazon Commerce

Amazon India has added an online pharmacy to its offerings in Bengaluru, one of the nation’s largest cities with a population of nearly 12 million....

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Troubled NMC Health Suspected Of Faking Drug Orders
Troubled NMC Health Suspected Of Faking Drug Orders
August 10, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

Investigators examining alleged wrongdoing at once high-flying UAE healthcare provider NMC Health are exploring whether the company falsified drug orders to inflate the books of...

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