Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. is donating $250,000 to support The Blueprint for Pharmacy Implementation Strategy, a long-term initiative to evolve pharmacy practice with the changing health care needs of Canadians.
A federal appeals court has granted Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Amphastar Pharmaceuticals a stay of the preliminary injunction preventing them from marketing or selling Amphastar’s enoxaparin sodium injection.
McKesson Corp. is slated to distribute BluScience dietary supplements from ChromaDex Corp. to about 4,000 community pharmacies. ChromaDex said Wednesday that under the agreement, McKesson will distribute three BluScience supplement products to independent pharmacies: HeartBlu, EternalBlu and Blu2Go.
Nipro Diagnostics Inc., has purchased a new corporate facility in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to house many of its operations. The diabetes care supplier said Thursday that the building, at 2200 West Cypress Creek Rd. in Fort Lauderdale.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a fourth round of draft federal upper limits (FULs) for Medicaid generic drug reimbursement, but the proposed levels still fall short for community pharmacies, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association.
Pointing to a rise in whooping cough cases, MinuteClinic announced that DTap and Tdap vaccinations are available daily at more than 600 walk-in health clinics nationwide.
With Super Bowl Sunday coming up soon, Rite Aid Corp. is launching a new promotion that highlights the chain as a convenient, year-round destination for commonly purchased food and beverage items.
Current Walgreen Co. executives Wade Miquelon and Kermit Crawford and former chief executive officer Jeffrey Rein have joined the boards of health care service providers.
The Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust Fund (PEBTF) has awarded CVS Caremark Corp. a three-year contract to provide prescription drug benefits to Pennsylvania state employees.
PuraMed BioScience Inc. has rolled out its LipiGesic M natural treatment for migraine headaches at CVS/pharmacy.
Paul Fonteyne has been named U.S. country managing director and president and chief executive officer of Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corp. The Germany-based drug maker said this week that Fonteyne takes over that post from J.
LowestMed, a provider of discount drug programs, has launched what it calls the industry’s first mobile application that enables consumers to view and compare prescription drug prices at local retail pharmacies on a smartphone.
As part of an effort to revamp its Medicaid program, the state of New York this year plans to evaluate average acquisition cost (AAC) as a benchmark for pharmacy reimbursement.
A survey sponsored by Pharmavite’s Nature Made brand found that many consumers don’t take advantage of pharmacists’ expertise about dietary supplements and vitamins. The online poll of about 500 U.S.
Attitude Drinks, creator of the Phase III Recovery exercise recovery aid, has inked a distribution agreement with Walgreens in Florida.
CVS/pharmacy has implemented a check management system from ACI Worldwide Inc. that the technology provider said enables the drug chain to automate and lower the cost of check authorization. ACI said Monday that CVS/pharmacy, part of CVS Caremark Corp.
