NEW YORK — Amazon Business, which sells bulk goods to business customers, has reportedly scrapped plans to distribute prescription drugs to hospitals. Instead of distributing pharmaceuticals, the network said the e-tailer will keep selling less regulated medical supplies to hospitals and smaller clinics — a business which it has found to have unexpected challenges. The
LAVAL, Quebec, and RALEIGH, N.C. — Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. has hiked its offer to buy Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. under an amended agreement. The companies said Monday that Valeant boosted its cash offer to acquire all the outstanding common stock of Salix to $173 per share, or a total deal of about $15.8 billion, from $158
In the not-too-distant past community pharmacy was correctly perceived as a conservative business whose members were intent on operating within a well-defined set of parameters and not rocking the boat. A generation ago it wasn’t uncommon to hear members of the profession joke about what they did as “lick, stick and pour.” The industry as
