Chain Pharmacy

Walgreens is expanding its consumer health screening services in Maryland to include cholesterol and other tests.

APhA recognizes pharmacist-educator who contributed to the profession and beyond.

Reorganized exam replaces three subject areas with nine. Testing time and number of questions remain the same.

Aurobindo, Dr. Reddy’s, Lupin, Sun Pharma, Teva, and Torrent Pharmaceuticals all received the OK.

WAG–Boots–Amerisource Bergen was only the first. Here comes another behemoth.

An accurate medication history for hospital patients is the product of teamwork shared by pharmacists, physicians, and nurses. The pharmacist must champion this process for it to work smoothly.

How St. Joseph County, Indiana, went from one pharmacy robbery every six weeks to none.

The program combines a doctorate in pharmacy from Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy and a medical degree from Rutgers University’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Mobile health-monitoring systems can empower the patient and strengthen the position of the pharmacist on the healthcare team.

With pharmacy industry bodies, labor unions, and special interest groups arrayed against the bill, Governor Brown returned the legislation to the State Senate unsigned.

Which way does the FDA spin the issue of opiate use in this country? Try both.

The development of target-specific anticoagulants has raised the question of their possible use in patients with mechanical heart valves.

Pharmacy managers who are not pharmacists manage to do one thing really well.

One bunch of pharmacists won't forget National Pharmacists Week any time soon.

Dolutegravir, a new, once-daily option, may allow improved personalization of a patient’s medication regimen.

Shrinking margins, drug shortages, ACA pose challenges for community, hospital pharmacists.

Urban Detroit community receives outpouring of healthcare resources from pharmacists and other providers.

As pharmacists switch from reimbursement based on a fee-for-service model to value-based care, these best practices can help maximize efficiency despite budget constraints and lean staffs.

Stakeholders meeting in Washington, D.C., discussed funding, costs, challenges, and directions.

Study showed lower doses less effective.

New Rx, generics, OTC, and devices

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If your inner entrepreneur is hollering to get out, maybe you should go for it.

Asking whether hydrocodone should be rescheduled is only the beginning.

Walgreens recently opened what is believed to be the nation’s first zero energy retail store. The Evanston, Ill., store uses approximately 850 solar panels and 2 wind turbines, and is anticipated to produce more energy than it consumes.

Caremark LLC, a division of CVS Caremark, has agreed to pay $4.25 million to five states to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicaid programs by billing them for prescription costs paid by private insurers.

During its annual foundation dinner in New York City this week, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation raised more than $1.8 million to support research, education, and medication adherence initiatives.

Helena Foulkes, a veteran with more than two decades of experience with CVS Caremark, will become president of the retail chain’s pharmacy business effective Jan. 1.