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U.S. District Court Judge Mark Kearney recently dismissed the class-action lawsuit of a Pennsylvania pharmacist who claimed CVS failed to pay him overtime pay.

Richmond University Medical Center, Staten Island, N.Y., recently opened the first fully-functioning retail pharmacy in a hospital in the area.

CVS/Caremark and Express Scripts, the two biggest players in the pharmacy benefits management industry, have both added medications to their exclusion lists.

Three community pharmacy professionals share their top tips on what makes pharmacists successful managers.

The product-tracing deadline has been extended to November 1. Other requirements are on schedule. Here's what you have to do, and when you have to do it.

Confronted by overwhelming workplace challenges, pharmacists sometimes forget they have options. It's time to step outside the limits of habitual thinking and take a look around.

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Researchers plan to study the best way to deploy pharmacy-based naloxone rescue kits to help prevent opioid overdoses and deaths.

Beginning next year, CVS/Caremark will no longer provide insurance coverage for the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.

When people are injured by pharmacy mistakes, it is a public safety issue. Where are the state boards of pharmacy?

CVS Health reported a strong second quarter in 2015 with overall net revenue up 7.4% to $37.2 million, compared to the same period last year.

CVS Health is partnering with IBM to document and analyze patient behaviors so that pharmacists and other healthcare professionals can better manage chronic illnesses.

Many people are pondering that question following the recent release of statistics from the Drug Enforcement Administration that showed Indiana led the nation in pharmacy robberies.

That’s the allegation made in a potential class action lawsuit that claims CVS deliberately overcharged some customers for generic drugs by submitting claims to their insurance companies at inflated prices.

CVS has agreed to pay $7.4 million to more than 1,600 pharmacists throughout California who claimed the retail giant forced employees to work seven days in a row without paying overtime.

In partnership with the Virginia Department of Health, Walgreens has increased its number of locations to 32 where free HIV testing is offered.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently announced that a Walgreens-owned pharmacy must repay $22.4 million to the state’s Medicaid program for filing false billings.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy has created a program that will allow working pharmacy professionals to earn a master of science in pharmacy business administration.

Federal and state laws impose limits on the amount of pseudoephedrine a person may buy and a pharmacy may sell. Your state's limits may be more strict than the limits imposed by the feds.

Is it really good medicine when legislators call the shots?

In this country, the practice of pharmacy is valued in two markedly different ways. Consequently, two different responses are necessary.

For patients, preventive services are a vital healthcare resource. For the healthcare delivery system, they produce cost savings. Pharmacists are a key link.

Statins and ED drugs lead the way, and there are plenty more on the horizon.

As sponsor of The Skin Cancer Foundation’s Road to Healthy Skin Tour, Rite Aid will offer free skin cancer screenings at locations in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia this summer.

The number of methamphetamine lab seizures in West Virginia is plummeting, and some are attributing that decline to pharmacy restrictions on pseudoephedrine products such as Sudafed and Claritin-D.

The Drug Enforcement Administration is using billboards to post the faces of people suspected of looting dozens of pharmacies during Baltimore’s Freddie Gray riots in April.

The lawsuit gained new life recently when Guilford denied Walmart’s motion to dismiss it, ruling Nikmanesh had sufficiently addressed the factual allegation deficiencies in an amended complaint.

Lakeland, Fla.-based Publix Super Markets is planning to invest $15 million to expand its pharmacy distribution services.

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The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued subpoenas to Costco Wholesale Corp. concerning its practices related to dispensing controlled substances.