Chain Pharmacy

Pfizer Inc., the world?s largest drug maker, has secured the financing for a reported $60 billion-plus bid for Wyeth, according to news reports.

The slumping U.S economy and government regulations will cause pharmacy sales to grow only around 1.3 percent rate in 2009, according to new research presented last week at the American Society for Automation in Pharmacy?s Industry and Technology Issues in St. Petersburg, Fla.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently announced a voluntary pilot program to ensure the safety of drugs and active drug ingredients produced outside the United States.

Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to plead guilty to one misdemeanor violation of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and will pay more approximately $800 million for unproven marketing and promotional claims involving the antipsychotic medication Zyprexa.

Clinical pharmacy services can significantly help curb prescription drug spending and other healthcare costs, according to a new study.

While the generic drug discount programs offered at most chain pharmacies have saved patients billions of dollars, they have also cut into pharmacies? gross profit margins.

Group practice can be a fulfilling alternative to corporate drudgery. Each participant brings skills that strengthen the whole. Retail, long-term-care, and institutional pharmacists can combine forces and succeed.

Boston has followed San Francisco's lead and has banned pharmacy tobacco sales. It went even further and banned cigarette sales on college campuses.

21st century pharmacy: Everyone's frustrated and services suffer.

Exclusive DT survey: Pharmacies are selling more OTC headache medications.

Despite challenges from a contracting economy, pharmacists are optimistic about 2009.

For a $10 enrollment fee, customers can fill 90-day prescriptions on any of 400 generic drugs for $9.99.

A civic group has collaborated with Georgia Power and Home Depot to provide price discounts on emergency generators to pharmacies in the community of Buckhead, Georgia.

CVS Caremark Corp. recently announced that it successfully completed the subsequent offering period of its tender offer for all of the outstanding common stock of Longs Drug Stores Corp.

Precisely defining intermediate cardiovascular-event risk using the Framingham Risk Score (FRS) is a challenge for clinicians. This is magnified when one considers that the number of patients who fall under the intermediate risk category outnumbers those considered low or high risk.

Walgreens is taking the city of San Francisco to court to contest its ban on tobacco sales in pharmacies.

Longs Drugs has turned down an unsolicited purchase offer of $3 billion from Walgreens and plans to move forward with its sale to CVS Caremark.

Less than a week after Hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast, the Galveston Walgreen's was back in business.

While emergency officials scramble to restore power to homes and businesses throughout the hurricane-ravaged Galveston, Texas-area, Walgreens has reopened it store in the midst of the city to provide much-needed supplies and pharmacy services.

A new fully synthetic heparin may be safer and more pure than the current heparin product.

On October 1, 2008, San Francisco becomes the first city in the United States to ban the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in pharmacies.

Pharmitas and U. of Washington will work together to create a medication therapy management program.

Chronic hepatitis B can now be treated with a new drug.

CVS Caremark acquires Longs Drugs, a California-based chain of 521 stores, for $2.9 billion.

The ban, the first of its kind in the nation, is set to take effect Oct. 1.

The products will be stocked in the retail chain's digestive section.

Pharmacies will be consolidated by the end of August.

Students can gain work experience assisting pharmacists with prescriptions and answering patient questions.

CVS is already the largest drug chain in the country.

The school and sports physicals cost $25.