Leading retail industry trade association Global Market Development Center (GMDC)|Retail Tomorrow, in partnership with global strategy and management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, has released the results of its first annual 2019 Selfcare Benchmarking Study.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) and the National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC) announced Tuesday a request for proposals (RFP) for research projects that address barriers to medication access.
CVS Health announced Tuesday that MinuteClinic, the company’s retail medical clinic, has rolled out its video visit offering in the states of Colorado, Illinois and New Jersey.
ARLINGTON, Va. – Project Lifeline – a community partnership and research program initiated by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation to address substance use disorder (SUD) – will take center stage at the upcoming NACDS Foundation Dinner.
Walgreens and the United Nations Foundation’s Shot@Life campaign announced Tuesday that the Walgreens Get a Shot. Give a Shot. program has helped provide 50 million life-saving vaccines to children around the world since its inception in 2013.
Upsher-Smith announced Monday that it has added Zembrace SymTouch (sumatriptan) Injection 3 mg to its Access Pathways Platinum Pass Program – a savings and support program where eligible patients pay $0 per prescription.
Value-based care models have been used in health care for years, trying to strike a balance between coverage, cost and quality.
A race is under way among pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs that treat a spectrum of liver diseases, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an asymptomatic condition characterized by elevated levels of fat in the liver, and its more severe form, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NAS
BOSTON – Biofourmis announced Monday it has been selected by Novartis, a global healthcare company, to collaborate on a commercial project for managing patients with heart failure (HF) beginning in Southeast Asia, with potential plans to expand globally.
Mylan and Pfizer announced earlier this week that the name of the new company to be formed by the planned combination of Mylan and Upjohn, a division of Pfizer, will be Viatris (pronounced ‘viǝ-trīs).
ARLINGTON, Va.– Substance use disorder (SUD) treatment could benefit from pharmacists’ accessibility and expertise, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) wrote in detailed letters to 15 Medicaid program directors.
Medical research shows that loneliness and social isolation are associated with negative health behaviors and a wide range of illnesses. In fact, the health impact of loneliness has been equated to smoking 15 cigarettes a day (Holt-Lunstad 2010). Loneliness and isolation are prevalent.
The National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC) announced that Blasine Penkowski, chief strategic customer officer of Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc., has been elected chair of NPC’s board of directors for 2019-2020.
Medici, a virtual health care company, has released a new survey report titled, “Un-breaking the health care system,” based on a survey of 800 health care consumers conducted in late July.
GAINESVILLE, Ga. – As more independent pharmacies close or file for bankruptcy across the U.S.
