A new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) study on medication therapy management brings "further proof" of the benefits of pharmacist-led MTM services in improving patient health and mitigating medical costs, according to Steve Anderson, president and chief executive officer of the Nation
Stephen Donohue has joined Innovation as divisional vice president of sales, chain and high volume.
Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. ended fiscal 2012 with solid revenue gains for the fourth quarter and full year, along with upticks in earnings per share. Canada’s largest drug chain said Thursday that for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 29, total sales rose 4.4% year over year to $2.72 billion (Canadian).
Rexall Pharma Plus has become a top consumer destination for flu shots in Ontario since the province expanded the range of services that pharmacists can perform.
Medicine Shoppe Canada has enlisted media software provider ScreenScape to implement a digital signage network that connects its pharmacies across Canada and presents value-added health care information to customers.
Shopko reports that pharmacy customers are embracing its mobile application to help manage their prescriptions. The retailer said Tuesday that more than 1,000 prescriptions a day are being refilled via the Shopko mobile pharmacy app, introduced last year, and that number is rising fast.
Kirby Lester has expanded its pharmacy automation lineup with the new KL100 midsize dispensing robot. The company said Wednesday that the KL100 brings a new level of efficiency and medication safety to higher-volume retail/outpatient pharmacies and central fill facilities.
Perrigo Co. has received Food and Drug Administration approval for its New Drug Application (NDA) for testosterone gel 1%. The company said Tuesday that its NDA included a bioequivalence study that compared its product with AbbVie’s AndroGel 1%.
CVS Caremark Corp. has acquired Drogaria Onofre, a Sao Paulo, Brazil-based retail drug chain with 44 stores. Larry Merlo, president and chief executive officer of CVS Caremark, said Wednesday during a conference call on the company’s fourth-quarter results that the Onofre deal closed late last week.
Patient and health care groups, including the pharmacy community, are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to reject the rescheduling of combination hydrocodone products from Schedule III to Schedule II.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation has awarded research grants to three universities to examine how community pharmacy-provided medication management in care teams such as medical homes and accountable care organizations (ACOs) impact patient health outcomes.
Double-digit revenue gains helped drive increased earnings at CVS Caremark Corp. for the 2012 fourth quarter and fiscal year. The company said Wednesday that net revenue for the three months ended Dec. 31 rose 10.9% to $31.4 billion from $28.3 billion a year earlier.
Growth in pharmacy business, fueled by the severe flu season, helped boost same-store sales at Walgreen Co. in January. Walgreens said Tuesday that comparable-store sales rose 3.7% in January, with calendar day shifts positively impacting results by 1.
Sharon Driscoll has joined Katz Group Canada Ltd., the operator of the Rexall and Rexall Pharma Plus pharmacy chains, as executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Mylan has entered an agreement with Biocon Ltd. to collaborate on the development and commercialization of generic versions of three insulin analog products.
