Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine on its way to states after FDA grants approval
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 21, 2020
The FDA announced its approval late Friday, and roughly six million doses of the COVID-19 drug began shipping from warehouses two days later, officials said.
COVID vaccine protects elderly; delivery program has buy-in from nearly all U.S. nursing homes
By
Alicia Lasek
Nov 19, 2020
Fully 99% of skilled nursing facilities nationwide have signed on with the federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program vaccine delivery initiative, HHS says. The news arrived just as Pfizer...
Tech execs guilty of conspiring to fill nursing home prescriptions with recycled drugs
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 14, 2017
A subsidiary of a pharmacy chain near Pittsburgh pleaded guilty Tuesday in a conspiracy scheme described by prosecutors as an attempt to recycle unused medications.