Community Practice

An updated bulletin from ACOG offers advice on how to treat pregnant patients with mental disorders.

Walgreens is opening stores in Alaska in 2009.

There is a new tip sheet available for referral agents and grandfathered supplieres under the DMEPOS competitive bidding program.

Health Mart has named Tim Canning president, succeeding Stefan Linn.

A new three-category label is in the works for pregnancy and breastfeeding information.

A California man faces incarceration and a hefty fine for selling drugs over the Internet without the proper safeguards in place.

CMS issues a final rule letting researchers and HHS access Part D claims data for research purposes.

SEI Pharmaceuticals' Xiadafil VIP Tabs are being recalled for containing a substance that could hurt patients.

Express Scripts has agreed to pay 28 states and the District of Columbia $9.3 million to settle charges that it switched cholesterol-lowering drugs for financial gain.

CMS will need more time before it issues a final rule on conditions for hospices to participate in Medicare and Medicaid.

A California man faces incarceration and a hefty fine for selling drugs over the Internet without the proper safeguards in place.

FDA warns about the dangers in Mommy's Bliss Nipple Cream.

The City of San Francisco is suing McKesson in federal court, alleging that the wholesaler conspired to inflate the gap between wholesale acquisition costs and average wholesale prices.

A new study finds a direct correlation between increasing drug costs and decreasing hospitalization costs.

A CVS pharmacy in New York dispensed a chemo drug, instead of PTU, to a patient.

Kline & Co. study reveals U.S. drug retailers want a more interactive relationship with OTC drug marketers.

The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy has established a web site to target Internet pharmacies that do not meet its recommended criteria of online drug sales.

The National Associaton of Chain Drug Stores has submitted comments to House and Senate requesting they reject proposals to expand DME competitive bidding program to diabetic supplies.

The pharmacy benefit manager Prime Therapeutics announces that it has received VIPPS accreditation.

ASHP's latest survey of hospital pharmacists shows that they are increasingly a force to be reckoned with.

Entereg is a new drug to help hospitalized patients who have undergone abdominal surgery restore their bowel functions.

McKesson Patient Relationship Solutins' LoyaltyScript Program results in over $125 million in patient savings.

A CVS pharmacist has written and directed a comedy about a pharmacist and his encounters with patients during his graveyard shift.

ASCP launches assisted living manual.

CVS Caremark is partnering with Google on the launch of Google Health to provide consuemrs with secure access to their health information.

Bayer has reformulated Leukine without EDTA, which has been linked with fainting.

Medicis issues recall of two lots of antibiotic Solodyn.

The Cancer Prevention Coalition is urging the FDA in a petition to put a cancer warning on cosmetic talc powder products.

AstrasZeneca's antipsychotic in combination with lithium or divalproex is okayed for bipolar maintenance.

Winn-Dixie supermarket pharmacy is making it easier for customers to use their health savings account and flexible spending account cards.