Leveraging its logistics and supply chain muscle, now including drone delivery, Amazon wants to make it faster and easier for patients to get their prescription medications and speed up “triage to treatment.” Amazon Pharmacy, which launched three years ago after the company acquired PillPack in 2018, announced Oct. 18 that it was launching drone delivery for prescription ...

There was a time, in the misty, rose-hued past, when the three big drugstore chains looked poised to take over the American healthcare system.

The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to harden defenses around the U.S. health care infrastructure, releasing an updated cyber "toolkit" to help the sector better defend against hackers.

Pharmacists protesting deteriorating working conditions inside the nation’s largest retail chains have launched their third and largest walkout of the season with a three-day movement they have dubbed "Pharmageddon."

COVID-19 treatments, including Pfizer's Paxlovid, will begin transitioning to the commercial market this week, with costs of the drugs set to increase.

President Biden ordered the nation’s leading health agencies on Monday to develop a plan for regulating artificial intelligence tools already widely in use within hospitals, insurance companies, and other health-related businesses. The order directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a safety program to receive reports of AI-related harms and unsafe practices ...