Chain Pharmacy

Drug Topics readers had plenty to say about our recent article on metrics used against older pharmacists. So did readers of The Cynical Pharmacist, when they got wind of it. Here's a sample.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Durham, North Carolina, was awarded a $12 million contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the development and manufacture of its small molecule, BCX4430, for the prevention of Ebola virus reproduction.

The board of directors of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores recently joined President Barack Obama at the administration’s launch of its Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network.

That’s the assertion of four former CVS pharmacists who recently filed lawsuits in U.S. District Court in South Carolina claiming the retail giant created a metrics system that unfairly eliminates older workers and causes dispensing errors.

In the pharmacist's hierarchy of needs, which comes first? Provider status? Or getting paid for the work you're doing right now?

As healthcare facilities across the nation deal with shortages of certain drugs, including generics, pharmacists and pharmacy managers are tasked with the daily monitoring of drug supplies and increased communications with other healthcare professionals such as nurses and physicians.

California pharmacist Afrouz Nikmanesh recently filed a class-action lawsuit against Walmart, alleging the retail giant cheated her and her colleagues out of work breaks and overtime pay.

Shaw’s Supermarkets is fighting an effort by a Teamsters local to represent pharmacists at its 16 stores in Maine.

If you're waffling on the idea of taking out professional liability insurance, read this and think again.

MTM reimbursement gets a big push from the feds.

A recent ISMP study found that the government’s adverse event reporting system is hampered by incomplete reports from manufacturers.

From program launch through December 2014, CVS has sold 63% more smoking cessation products and seen 61% more Minute Clinic visits than it did during the same period a year earlier.

A federal judge recently denied Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd's attempt to be the first drugmaker to launch generic versions of Nexium and Valcyte.

A month after New York ordered Target, Walmart, Walgreens, and GNC to stop selling herbal supplements that routinely did not contain the ingredients advertised, one of the giant retailers has been hit with a class action lawsuit.

Louisiana State University’s (LSU) Health Sciences Center-New Orleans is partnering with CVS and Walgreens to expand its primary care reach.

A jury recently awarded more than $1 million to a pharmacist who claimed he was fired from a Pell City, Ala. CVS because of his age.

A California pharmacist has filed a class-action lawsuit against Walmart, accusing the retail giant of cheating pharmacists out of work breaks and overtime pay.

A federal judge has ruled that Walgreens acted properly when it fired a pharmacist who refused to give flu shots based on moral objections.

Rite Aid Corp. has announced its plan buy pharmacy benefits manager EnvisionRx for about $2 billion.

The pharmacist-owners of the Canadian franchises will not receive any compensation from Target, which wants them out by the end of the month.

Paper is about to become history in one of the largest prescription drug markets in the country.

Without either element, product and profits suffer. Pharmacists get it. But do their bosses?

Can-do exemplar is recognized for his many contributions to the profession of pharmacy.

Rite Aid recently announced the opening of 24 RediClinics inside pharmacies in Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia.

North Dakota residents who last year rejected a ballot measure that would have removed pharmacy-ownership restrictions should know that their opponents were well financed.

Among four New York retail chains, only 21% of store-brand supplements tested contained the plant material named on their labels.

Should a pharmacist afraid of needles have to administer immunizations as part of his or her job? Or should pharmacies be required to make reasonable accommodations for such an employee?

Merck is voluntarily discontinuing the production and distribution of hepatitis C virus therapy, boceprevir (Victrelis) by December 2015 because of low demand

Tops Friendly Markets in Williamsville, N.Y., is closing pharmacy departments in 27 of its 162 stores later this month. Instead of pharmacies, Tops will add more fresh food, deli and health and beauty care products. The stores themselves will remain open.

Alasdair Trotter, a principal at Innosight, explains disruptive innovations and how companies such as Walgreens, CVS, and others are using it to drive revenues.