Congressional legislators challenging the White House budget are making the health care law a major point of contention. Some Republicans have vowed to force a government shutdown unless funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is stripped from the spending plan. “It isn’t working,” Texas Sen.
Continuing to enhance its upscale beauty care offering, Shoppers Drug Mart (SDM) has unveiled its beautyBOUTIQUE at the Toronto Eaton Centre.
Rexall Pharma Plus and London Drugs have bolstered their online offerings with, respectively, a medical record site and two e-commerce fulfillment centers. Rexall’s newly launched MyRexall lets customers view and print their personal medication records at www.rexall.ca.
Retail pharmacies across the country are taking steps to help customers stave off illnesses in the 2013-2014 flu season. For example, flu shots are now available at all Walgreen Co. pharmacies and at Healthcare Clinics at select Walgreens and at Duane Reade pharmacies.
CVS Caremark Corp. has opened a state-of-the-art mail service pharmacy and customer center in this Illinois community.
Gen. David Petraeus, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former commander of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, will be the keynote speaker for the 2013 NACDS Foundation Dinner to be held here on December 3.
H-E-B senior director of privacy, pharmacy and governmental affairs Dennis Wiesner was given the Harold W. Pratt Award at this year’s Total Store Expo.
Eleven products were chosen as the top new items at this year’s NACDS Total Store Expo. With 160 different products featured in the TSE Product Showcase, retailers were able to see all of the newest items in one place. After reviewing these products, the retailers chose such items as Pet Head Inc.’s
The Retail Litigation Center (RLC) has joined the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, the National Community Pharmacists Association and other pharmacy and retail organizations in an amicus brief filed with the Minnesota Supreme Court regarding a case involving generic drug substitution.
and sell — more goods made in America, at the expense of foreign-produced products. Some 1,500 people attended the two-day summit.
The drive toward coordinated health care is redefining the relationships between providers and creating opportunities for drug chains and other community pharmacy operators to become more tightly woven into the continuum of care.
America is a nation in pain. Over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, and the annual cost of health care for pain (including disability days and lost wages and productivity) is estimated at between $560 billion and $635 billion.
Carma Laboratories Inc. has added a fragrance-free alternative to its Carmex Everyday Healing Cream product.
CVS/pharmacy is bringing back a popular loyalty card promotion as it marks a company milestone. The drug chain said Friday that members of its ExtraCare program can sign up to double their Quarterly ExtraBucks Rewards earnings when they shop at any of its more than 7,500 stores from Sept.
Kmart pharmacies are adopting messaging solutions from LDM Group’s pharmacy network to bolster patient-pharmacist communication.
In a letter to congressional leaders, the National Community Pharmacists Association gave its take on how pharmacy compounding safety and oversight could be improved without impacting patient access to compounded medications. NCPA said Thursday that chief executive officer B.
