The National Community Pharmacists Association and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores have endorsed The Drug Quality and Security Act, which aims to improve regulation of pharmacy compounding and security of the pharmacy supply chain.
The National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP) has launched a national collaborative project to devise pharmacy practice parameters in about 20 specialty pharmacy therapeutic categories focused on disease management.
Community pharmacies can congratulate themselves on sustaining a high level of customer satisfaction with pharmacists and pharmacy staff, according to the Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmacy Satisfaction Pulse Survey.
Pharmacists at Astrup Drug Inc. are more in tune with their patients’ health since integrating PharmaSmart biometric screening technology with the regional drug chain’s Rx30 pharmacy system. PharmaSmart International Inc.
CVS Caremark Corp. has opened the first of seven planned MinuteClinics inside Longs Drug Stores in Hawaii. MinuteClinic Nurse Practitioner Tara Davis checks the blood pressure of Hawaii State Senate President Donna Mercado Kim.
Rite Aid Corp. has been named the first national retail partner of text4baby, a free text messaging service for pregnant women and mothers of infants younger than age 1. The drug chain said Thursday that it will use circular ads, in-store displays and social media to inform pregnant women and new
Loblaw Cos. has appointed veteran company executive Mark Butler to lead the integration of Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. In the newly created role, Butler will serve as executive vice president of integration. Most recently, he was executive vice president of Loblaw’s Conventional Division.
A poll in Michigan finds that voters oppose legislation that would require a prescription for over-the-counter cold and allergy medicines containing pseudoephedrine, according to the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA).
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has responded to requests from the Specialty Pharmacy Association of America (SPAARx) for clarifications on 2013 regulations under the HIPAA HITECH Act.
Pharmasave Drugs Ltd. has reached a milestone, passing the 200 mark in stores in Ontario. The member-owned and -operated pharmacy cooperative said Monday that it has opened 60 stores in Ontario over the past two years, dramatically increasing Pharmasave’s presence in the province.
Rite Aid Corp. expects to have about a quarter of its store base converted to its "wellness store" format by the close of its fiscal year next March. Rite Aid’s 1,000th wellness store opened its doors during the second quarter. In a conference call on Rite Aid’s fiscal 2014 second-quarter results,
Drug chains are sharpening their efficiency and decision-making in back-end and customer-facing functions across their organizations with the help of applications that enable them to better harness and manage data.
Helena Foulkes, a senior-level executive at CVS Caremark Corp., has been appointed to the board of directors at The Home Depot.
Next year, a new chief executive officer will be taking the helm at Kroger Co., the nation’s biggest supermarket company and one of its largest retail pharmacy operators. The food and drug retailer said Friday that longtime CEO David Dillon, 62, will retire on Jan. 1, 2014, and be succeeded by W.
Walgreen Co.’s WellTransitions hospital discharge services program has been endorsed by the American Hospital Association for fostering medication adherence.
Early next month, members of more than 30 pharmacy organizations worldwide will go on Twitter to participate in a "tweet-a-thon" to highlight the positive impact that pharmacists have on patients and the health care industry, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association.
