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Community pharmacies competing with preferred pharmacy networks can sharpen their game by focusing on some of the things they do best.

The Ninth Circuit Court has upheld a Washington state law requiring pharmacies to provide patients with all medications in a timely manner.

CVS Health is crediting its decision to remove tobacco products from its shelves a year ago with a reduction in the numbers of cigarettes sold in some states.

Kmart has sued pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) Catamaran for breach of contract and alleged violations of state and federal laws regarding reimbursements for prescription drug costs.

Kmart has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle charges it used illegal inducements to encourage Medicare patients to forego generics for more expensive brand names.

Guest columnist The Cynical Pharmacist offers a proposal every retail pharmacist will love.

Now that a judge has granted conditional class certification to a lawsuit claiming Walmart failed to compensate pharmacists for some time related to immunization training, the lead plaintiff is urging her former colleagues to join the litigation.

Supermarket pharmacies averaged the highest customer-satisfaction scores in J.D. Power’s “2015 U.S. Pharmacy Study."

Walmart is blaming lower margins in its pharmacy business for holding down overall corporate profits.

CVS Health recently introduced a new pharmacy service, ScriptSync, designed to enable patients with multiple Rxs to pick them up during one visit to the pharmacy.

Walgreens has agreed to pay $502,200 to settle charges that some of its pharmacists in California failed to provide patient consultations required by law.

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.