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January 10, 2010
Reporters Notebook

Sepracor received a two-year extension on its patent for an insomnia drug, the drug maker...

January 10, 2010
Safeway forges leadership role in nation’s quest for health reform

By every measure, Safeway is one of the top supermarket and pharmacy chains in the...

January 10, 2010
Walgreens, TakeCare Clinics administer more than 1 million H1N1 vaccines

Walgreens, which is offering H1N1 vaccinations at all of its pharmacies and Take Care Clinics...

January 10, 2010
Zegerid third PPI to go OTC

Zegerid OTC was approved for sale as a nonprescription remedy for frequent heartburn last month,...

January 7, 2010
Bartell to cease filling Medicaid prescriptions at 15 locations

The Medicaid storm is still intense in Washington as Bartell Drugs has announced that —...

January 6, 2010
Walgreens offers pharmacy patients access to secure prescription history through Microsoft HealthVault

Walgreens pharmacy patients now have the ability to securely download their prescription history from Walgreens.com...

January 5, 2010
Adherence to HIV therapy may cut healthcare costs, study finds

Increased adherence of HIV therapy may be cost-effective, according to a new study....

January 4, 2010
URAC launches Consumer Education Initiative

The nation’s leading healthcare accreditation and education organization has launched a Consumer Education Initiative, designed...

January 3, 2010
Walgreens offering H1N1 vaccinations at all pharmacies, Take Care Clinics nationwide

The once-scarce H1N1 vaccine now is available daily at all of the more than 7,100...

December 22, 2009
CVS Caremark appoints new president of PBM business

If there was any doubt as to the value CVS Caremark places on personalized medicine,...

December 22, 2009
Senators urge for Medicaid generic drug reimbursement provision in health-reform bill

The mid-December plea by 16 members of Congress to assure a fair payment for pharmacies...

December 17, 2009
Pharmacy groups hail bipartisan effort to lift Medicaid generic dispensing rates

A small group of U.S. representatives from both parties has asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

December 10, 2009
Agreement to drop public option pushes health bill 'way down road'

To paraphrase a quote often attributed — but probably incorrectly — to 19th century German...

December 3, 2009
Diabetes population to double, costs to nearly triple by 2034

A near doubling in the diabetes population and near tripling in costs of treating the...

December 3, 2009
MinuteClinic, Humana expand partnership's focus on chronic illness management

The expansion of MinuteClinic's partnership with Humana not only further illustrates the important role that...

November 24, 2009
NACDS expresses support of FDA enforcement against rogue pharmacy Web sites

The FDA's action to tackle the selling of unapproved or misbranded drugs through rogue Internet...

November 24, 2009
Study finds hypertension best treated by doctor-pharmacist collaboration

If anyone still doubted the extraordinary contributions that pharmacists can bring to the nation’s costly...

November 19, 2009
Coalition of pharmacy, health groups urges Congress to address compliance

A whole slew of health policy-makers, health-reform advocates, federal and state lawmakers, budget hawks and...

November 12, 2009
CVS Caremark partners with Generation Health

Whether it is through its Maintenance Choice program, the MinuteClinic business or its ExtraCare Health...

November 12, 2009
Independents’ lobby urges changes to health-reform bill passed in House

Like their chain pharmacy counterparts, the people who own and operate their own single-store or...

October 8, 2009
Health reform study buoys Dems as CBO predicts deficit reduction

After months of hard-edged wrangling in Congress, on the Sunday morning political gab fests, on...

October 1, 2009
Walgreens makes a home in Brooklyn with 7,000th store

So, who’s bigger — CVS or Walgreens?...

September 24, 2009
195 million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine to be distributed

No matter where that H1N1 vaccine is eventually disseminated to a waiting and acutely aware...

September 17, 2009
Baucus bill a mixed bag for pharmacy

Question: What piece of compromise legislation proposes to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system at a...

August 27, 2009
CVS Caremark study notes lack of adherence to cholesterol-lowering medications

When it comes to nonadherence of prescription medications, it is often senior citizens who are...

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