New York and Los Angeles residents can now get prescriptions for certain medical conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes delivered to their doors “within hours”—because if you can get cannabis delivered to your door, why not your amlodipine?

Under a new Amazon Pharmacy expansion effort, New York City and Los Angeles join Austin, Indianapolis, Miami, Phoenix, and Seattle in offering same-day delivery.

“By bringing Amazon Pharmacy’s deliveries into our existing world-class logistics network, Amazon is building the fastest and most convenient service for the home delivery of prescription medications,” Doug Herrington, CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, said in a statement. “These faster delivery speeds will be a game changer when you or your family need your medications quickly.”

Keep reading here.—JS

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Wondering who got a new job or what new positions healthcare companies have filled recently? Healthcare Brew’s got you covered. Each month we highlight some of the major job changes in the healthcare industry as part of our Movers and Shakers series.

Have a job announcement to share? Drop Will an email at [email protected].

Movers and Shakers for March 2024

Donna Cice: Northwell Health promoted the North Shore University Hospital human resources (HR) leader to VP, enterprise HR officer.

Matthew J. D’Onofrio: Evoke Pharma executives announced the specialty pharmaceutical company’s president and COO as its new CEO.

Shannon Young: The Healthcare Brew senior reporter announced she’s joining 340B Report as its new associate editor/senior reporter. Editor’s note: We’ll miss you!

Keep reading here.—SY

Do you work in healthcare or have information about the industry that we should know? Email Shannon at [email protected]. For confidential conversations, ask Shannon for her number on Signal.

On Fridays, we schedule our rounds with Healthcare Brew readers. Want to be featured in an upcoming edition? Click here to introduce yourself.

This week’s Making Rounds spotlights Jim Olson, a professor at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute, part of Seattle Children’s Hospital, where he runs a research lab that develops new therapeutics for children with brain cancer.

At the institute, Olson also directs the Invent at Seattle Children’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program, which trains scientists from underrepresented backgrounds and kick-starts their careers in researching treatments for childhood conditions.

Olson discussed how Invent at Seattle Children’s got off the ground, why treating patients who are children brings him optimism, and what makes the road to better cancer treatments so long.

Keep reading here.—WP

Do you work in healthcare or have information about the industry that we should know? Email Will at [email protected]. For confidential conversations, ask Will for his number on Signal.

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