Pharmacy benefit manager CVS urges rewrite for U.S. heart guidelines
FREE Breaking News Alerts from StreetInsider.com!
StreetInsider.com Top Tickers, 9/26/2026
- Wall Street ends higher as investors buy AI stocks; Microsoft rallies
- Stock action shows confidence in central banks: BofA’s Hartnett
- Oil prices slide about 2% as US, Iran explore path out of war
- Why stocks held up despite rising yields and $100 oil? These 2 words explain it
- Barclays asks if equity markets are nearing the boiling point
- White House blocks CNN from Air Force One trip, Washington Post reports
- Merck and Daiichi Sankyo withdraw lung cancer drug application
- Exclusive-SK Hynix's Solidigm weighs IPO that could value the unit at up to $150 billion, sources say
- Wall Street ends higher as investors buy AI stocks; Microsoft rallies
- Fox Factory sells Marucci Sports for $225M, cuts debt
CVS Health Research Institute Encourages Reconsideration of Current Cholesterol Management Guidelines as New Class of High-cost Drugs Hit the Market
August 10, 2015 11:05 AM EDTWOONSOCKET, R.I., Aug. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- In a commentary published online first today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) Research Institute experts encouraged the cardiology community to review and reconsider current treatment guidelines for the management of high cholesterol. As a new class of high-cost cholesterol lowering drugs, known as PCSK9 inhibitors, comes to market, current American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines, could complicate treatment choices and inhibit utilization management tools to manage... More
Boston Medical Center Teams Up with Rhode Island Hospital, CVS Health to Address Use of Pharmacy-Based Naloxone to Combat Opioid Addiction and Overdoses
August 6, 2015 10:30 AM EDTBOSTON, Aug. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Â Boston Medical Center (BMC) has received a $1.3 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to support a demonstration project of pharmacy-based naloxone rescue kits to help reduce opioid addiction and overdose death in two New England States: Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The study will be conducted in partnership with Rhode Island... More
