Monday, December 18, 2017

Amazon Hasn't Figured Out Drugstores Yet. But It Will Have To

Bloomberg-1 hour ago
For months now, pharmacy and health benefits companies have fretted that they're the next targets of Jeff Bezos's disruption steamroller. In September Amazon.com Inc. acquired Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain that could theoretically add drug counters to stores; a month later came word that the e-commerce giant ...

Former presidents of pharmacist watchdog received questionable ...

Toronto Star-3 hours ago
It's illegal in Ontario for drug companies to give cash or incentives to induce a pharmacy to stock their products. These unlawful payments are known as rebates and critics say they compromise pharmacists' professional independence and can artificially inflate the price of generic prescriptions. The money from M