prescription drugs

Florida Hospital Association president Mary Mayhew tells "The Florida Roundup" that she hopes people can start benefitting from the program within the year.

The move will allow Florida to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada. But, the Agency for Health Care Administration has to meet conditions first.

Lawmakers have filed bills that would allow Medicaid beneficiaries with “serious mental illness” to avoid a practice known as step therapy in receiving medications.

For the first time, Medicare will negotiate the prices of 10 common medicines.

Key parts of a lawsuit are on hold, as the Food and Drug Administration expects a decision by Oct. 31 on Florida's plan to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada.

Four years after Florida lawmakers passed a plan to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, the plan remains snarled in disputes with the Food and Drug Administration.

Small independent drug stores say the PBMs put them at a competitive disadvantage.

Local governments in Northwest Florida and Miami-Dade County have filed lawsuits seeking damages from the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company over its past work in helping market opioids.

Once a standard drug store practice, forumulating medicines from raw materials is now far less common in the industry.

Even some descendents of the area's original families keep coming back to the little apothecary on Macomb Street.