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  • New Knowhen Advanced Ovulation Test IDs patient’s 5 most fertile days

    NEWARK, N.J. — The new saliva-based Knowhen Advanced Ovulation Test is looking to help patients predict the likelihood of becoming pregnant on a given day. The test is a daily monitoring method that features a reusable mini-ovulation microscope to monitor the gradual increase of estrogen in saliva to identify the five most fertile days in the ovulation cycle. 
     

  • Boehringer Ingelheim, Lilly launch campaign on Type 2 diabetes, heart disease link

    RIDGEFIELD, Conn. and INDIANAPOLIS — Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly & Co. have launched an educational campaign to help raise awareness of the link between heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. The “For Your SweeHeart: Where diabetes and heart disease meet” campaign launch follows a survey by the two companies that found three-in-four Americans and two-in-three people with Type 2 diabetes don’t know that heart disease is the No. 1 health-related killer of Type 2 diabetes patients. 
     

  • Sanofi’s Soliqua 100/33 for Type 2 diabetes gets FDA nod

    SILVER SPRING, Md. — The Food and Drug Administration has approved Sanofi’s Soliqua 100/33 (insulin glargine 100 units/mL and lixisenatide 33mcg/mL), the company announced Monday. The drug is indicated to treat adults with Type 2 diabetes that’s inadequately controlled on basal insulin or lixisenatide. 
     

  • Quest Diagnostics brings patient-initiated screenings to Colo., Mo.

    MADISON, N.J. — Quest Diagnostics on Monday expanded ts new patient-initiated testing services to Colorado and Missouri, allowing patients to order lab tests without a physician’s order. Among the tests available are lipid panels, STI and HIV screenings and diabetes risk and management panels. 
     

  • Largest single-day health screening event Walmart Wellness Day a 'huge success'

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Walmart Wellness Day, the largest single-day health screening in the nation, was another huge success the company shared with Drug Store News.

    Nearly 250,000 free health screenings were conducted and 52,000 immunizations were administered in more than 4,600 Walmart stores last month.

  • Albertsons donates 5K flu vaccines to vets, homeless

    BOISE, Idaho — Albertsons Co. recently announced its donation of 5,000 flu vaccines to 21 non-profits that serve veterans, low-income communities and people and families that are homeless. The donation saw Albertsons providing staff pharmacists to administer on-site vaccines through mobile vaccine clinics. 
     

  • Walgreens collaborates with Baptist Health on pharmacy and clinic operations

    DEERFIELD, Ill. - Beginning in early January 2017, Baptist Health's retail pharmacy operations will open under Walgreens ownership at Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville as part of a collaboration focused on improving and coordinating healthcare for residents of northeast Florida. And in May 2017, Baptist Health will assume the operations of three Walgreens Healthcare Clinics.
     

  • CCA touts retail clinic value, even when it comes to ED visits

    WASHINGTON - A study published online earlier this week in the Annals of Emergency Medicine reported that retail clinics opened near emergency departments had little effect on rates of low-acuity visits to them. And an accompanying editorial suggested that the primary effect of opening retail clinics is to increase health care use, not substitute for emergency department visits

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