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Cardinal Health’s Supply-Chain Woes Means Higher Healthcare-Provider Costs
Text size The supply-chain crisis hasn’t eased up for Cardinal Health. Dreamstime More than two years into the pandemic, the supply-chain crisis hasn’t eased up for Cardinal Health , a distributor of drugs, and maker of medical supplies. Shares were down 5.1% on Thursday after the company reported fiscal-third-quarter earnings that missed Wall Street expectations, …
Four Drug Companies Reach Last-Minute Settlement in Opioid Litigation
AmerisourceBergen CEO Steven Collis testified before Congress on May 8, 2018, alongside other drug company executives. Photo: Alex Brandon/Associated Press Updated Oct. 21, 2019 8:00 am ET CLEVELAND—Four drug companies have reached a settlement at the last minute to avoid a trial here seeking to blame them for fueling the opioid crisis, according to people …
Internal drug company emails show indifference to opioid epidemic
Demonstrators protest the Food and Drug Administration’s policies related to pharmaceutical opioids at a rally in front of the Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington in April. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) In May 2008, as the opioid epidemic was raging in America, a representative of the nation’s largest manufacturer of opioid pain pills sent an …
