Rite Aid Corp. has made NowClinic Online Care, a “virtual” health clinic service, available at more of its stores. Earlier this month the drug chain said NowClinic Online Care is now being offered at an additional 58 of its pharmacies in Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
As prescription drug therapy assumes increasing importance in this country’s health care system, medication adherence has emerged as a key variable in determining its efficacy.
With the stalemate between President Obama and Republican leaders over a deal to replace the wide-ranging federal spending cuts known as sequestration continuing at presstime, the health care sector was bracing for reductions that will impact providers and patients alike.
CVS Caremark Corp. is reinventing pharmacy for better health, president and chief executive officer Larry Merlo told the Economic Club of Pittsburgh last month. “Traditionally people have thought about pharmacies as pill dispensaries, but we know that a pharmacy is much more than that,” Merlo said.
Mike De Fazio, senior director of store concepts at Duane Reade, has left the drug chain to take a position at RadioShack Corp.
London Drugs is offering customers a noninvasive look into their cholesterol history and health with PreVu, a skin cholesterol test from Miraculins Inc. The test measures the cholesterol found on the body’s largest organ, the skin, where cholesterol is accumulated with age.
Kerr Drug has completed implementation of the PDX Enterprise Pharmacy System (EPS) from PDX-National Health Information Network Inc.
Walgreen Co. has debuted Walgreens University with an eye toward leading the chain drug industry in classroom and online programming that engages, educates and develops employees for rewarding long-term careers.
CVS/pharmacy has launched its annual Project Health wellness campaign, in which it vows to deliver more than $15 million worth of free health screenings to multicultural communities across the United States.
he resigned late last month to accept a job as chief executive officer of RadioShack —was certainly one of the stunning developments that have periodically punctuated chain drug retailing in recent years, an event made
The changes transforming health care delivery, in both Canada and the United States, are creating openings for community pharmacy operators to expand the scope of professional practice.
Only about a week after its debut in the House of Representatives, legislation to expand Medicare patient access to medication therapy management (MTM) services has been introduced in the Senate.
About 300 pharmacists, pharmacy executives, pharmacy students and other pharmacy advocates representing 41,000 chain pharmacies from 38 states converged on Washington, D.C., this week for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores’ annual RxImpact Day on Capitol Hill lobbying drive.
New legislation in California aims to officially recognize pharmacists in the state as health care providers. The California Pharmacists Association (CPhA) said Wednesday that the legislation, introduced by State Sen.
Walgreen Co. and Bausch + Lomb have partnered to help raise consumer awareness of eye health. The companies on Wednesday announced SightSense, an online and in-store patient education program to spur the drug chain’s customers to take steps to protect and preserve their sight.
