Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy has established an Integrative Health Advisory Board. Members of the panel, all medical doctors, will contribute their expertise to help Pharmaca inform consumers, health care professionals and the media about safe, effective use of integrative medicine.
Walk-in health clinics at Duane Reade can now accept Medicare payments for routine health services provided to senior citizens. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has certified New York Walk-In Medical Group to receive payments for services under the Medicare program.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has called on the Food and Drug Administration to improve the usefulness of medication information that patients get with prescription drugs. NACDS outlined its views in a recent letter to the agency.
With the holiday shopping season set to kick off at the end of next week, retail industry observers are exhibiting a glimmer of hope that sales will be better this year.
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) plans to develop an interconnected communications hub for state prescription monitoring programs (PMPs).
in late 1959 to be precise — Eli Cohen, a 33-year-old entrepreneur with a retailing background that leaned heavily to apparel, opened a 500-foot “cut-rate” store on Broadway, between Duane and Reade streets, in Manhattan. The store mainly sold health and beauty aids, and its appeal, at a time when
The Republican tidal wave that swept through the nation’s political landscape earlier this month altered the balance of power in Washington and many state capitols and, in the process, created a greater degree of uncertainty for retail pharmacy operators.
OCuSOFT Inc. has rolled out its Zytaze prescription supplement to retail pharmacies. The company said Thursday that chain drug retailers carrying Zytaze include Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, Duane Reade and Walmart.
Frito-Lay North America has expanded its tortilla chip line with the new Tostitos Artisan Recipes.
Jack Shewmaker, a former president of Walmart who was key in developing the discount store giant’s everyday low pricing strategy, died this week at age 72. The company said Thursday that Shewmaker passed away on Nov. 17.
CVS Caremark Corp.’s MinuteClinic retail health clinic subsidiary was highlighted as a breakthrough innovator in health care delivery by the World Economic Forum’s Innovative Health Care Delivery Project.
Charging stations for electric vehicles are slated to be added at 18 Walgreen Co. drug stores in Houston as part of a program by NRG Energy.
Cardinal Health Inc. plans to buy regional pharmaceutical distributor Kinray Inc. in a $1.3 billion deal.
Namasté Laboratories, the maker of Organic Root Stimulator, has agreed to be acquired by Dabur India Ltd. Namasté said this week that the deal calls for the company to be acquired through Dabur’s U.S.-based subsidiary Dermoviva Skin Essentials Inc.
Pfizer Consumer Healthcare is spotlighting the launch of Advil Congestion Relief by offering "literal congestion relief" in the form of a personal helper to 100 holiday shoppers across the country on Black Friday.
When patients don’t pick up — or "abandon" — a prescription, a high co-payment is often the reason, a new study by Harvard, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and CVS Caremark Corp. finds.
