Walgreen Co. and Alliance Boots are making steady progress in creating what they call the first global, pharmacy-led enterprise focused on health, beauty and well-being, according to Walgreens president and chief executive officer Greg Wasson.
The National Community Pharmacists Association and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores have endorsed The Drug Quality and Security Act, which aims to improve regulation of pharmacy compounding and security of the pharmacy supply chain.
The National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP) has launched a national collaborative project to devise pharmacy practice parameters in about 20 specialty pharmacy therapeutic categories focused on disease management.
FLAVORx has begun offering the Pediatric Adherence Toolkit for Nurse Practitioners to foster medication adherence among children. Using the kit, nurse practitioners can get help determining if taste is impacting children’s adherence to medications.
Pharmagen Inc. has rolled out its Clotamin multivitamin to more than 3,000 CVS/pharmacy locations.
National Sales Solutions (NSS) has partnered with Retail Smarter LLC to give clients access to intelligence in brand marketing and supply chain management.
The True Easy Syringe from Health Enterprises Inc. is spotlighted in the October issue of Parents magazine. The True Easy Syringe uses a color coding system.
Community pharmacies can congratulate themselves on sustaining a high level of customer satisfaction with pharmacists and pharmacy staff, according to the Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmacy Satisfaction Pulse Survey.
Pharmacists at Astrup Drug Inc. are more in tune with their patients’ health since integrating PharmaSmart biometric screening technology with the regional drug chain’s Rx30 pharmacy system. PharmaSmart International Inc.
Oceans Omega LLC has introduced what it calls the world’s first commercially produced omega-3 fortified liquid health shots.
CVS Caremark Corp. has opened the first of seven planned MinuteClinics inside Longs Drug Stores in Hawaii. MinuteClinic Nurse Practitioner Tara Davis checks the blood pressure of Hawaii State Senate President Donna Mercado Kim.
Rite Aid Corp. has been named the first national retail partner of text4baby, a free text messaging service for pregnant women and mothers of infants younger than age 1. The drug chain said Thursday that it will use circular ads, in-store displays and social media to inform pregnant women and new
A new Rite Aid Corp. program aims to help customers find their way through the changing health benefits landscape ushered in by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Left to right: Sen. Robert Menendez, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Rite Aid CEO John Standley at the drug chain’s Hoboken, N.J., store.
Appearing at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores’ Total Store Expo last month, Jim Collins, the noted business consultant and author of such books as "Good to Great," "Built to Last" and "How the Mighty Fall," talked about what is required to make a business into a preeminent company over
Walgreen Co. is acquiring Kerr Drug, a pioneer of the patient-centered model of pharmacy. In buying Kerr month, Walgreens gained a chain that earned widespread attention in recent years for shedding the product-centered pharmacy model.
Patients enrolled in Thrifty White Pharmacy’s Medication Synchronization (Med Sync) program spend more days on their drug therapy than other patients do, a new analysis shows. That in turn improves their health outcomes and reduces overall health care costs.
