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January 6, 2010
Walgreens offers pharmacy patients access to secure prescription history through Microsoft HealthVault

Walgreens pharmacy patients now have the ability to securely download their prescription history from Walgreens.com...

January 5, 2010
Adherence to HIV therapy may cut healthcare costs, study finds

Increased adherence of HIV therapy may be cost-effective, according to a new study....

January 4, 2010
Former Miss America becomes diabetes ambassador for AmMed Direct

A former beauty queen has joined forces with a supplier of diabetes test supplies to...

January 4, 2010
Nutrition 21 completes sale of direct response, retail businesses to Nature's Products

Nutrition 21 on Tuesday announced that it has sold substantially all of the assets of...

January 4, 2010
URAC launches Consumer Education Initiative

The nation’s leading healthcare accreditation and education organization has launched a Consumer Education Initiative, designed...

January 3, 2010
'Life...supplemented' rolls out America’s Wellness Challenge

The Council for Responsible Nutrition has been fighting the good fight for supplements on three...

December 22, 2009
CVS Caremark appoints new president of PBM business

If there was any doubt as to the value CVS Caremark places on personalized medicine,...

December 22, 2009
Senators urge for Medicaid generic drug reimbursement provision in health-reform bill

The mid-December plea by 16 members of Congress to assure a fair payment for pharmacies...

December 17, 2009
Pharmacy groups hail bipartisan effort to lift Medicaid generic dispensing rates

A small group of U.S. representatives from both parties has asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

December 14, 2009
Diabetes Essentials

Here Nutrition 21's new product Diabetes Essentials is positioned in CVS' diabetes destination set. Key...

December 3, 2009
Diabetes population to double, costs to nearly triple by 2034

A near doubling in the diabetes population and near tripling in costs of treating the...

December 3, 2009
MinuteClinic, Humana expand partnership's focus on chronic illness management

The expansion of MinuteClinic's partnership with Humana not only further illustrates the important role that...

November 24, 2009
NACDS expresses support of FDA enforcement against rogue pharmacy Web sites

The FDA's action to tackle the selling of unapproved or misbranded drugs through rogue Internet...

November 24, 2009
Study finds hypertension best treated by doctor-pharmacist collaboration

If anyone still doubted the extraordinary contributions that pharmacists can bring to the nation’s costly...

November 19, 2009
Coalition of pharmacy, health groups urges Congress to address compliance

A whole slew of health policy-makers, health-reform advocates, federal and state lawmakers, budget hawks and...

November 12, 2009
CVS Caremark partners with Generation Health

Whether it is through its Maintenance Choice program, the MinuteClinic business or its ExtraCare Health...

October 25, 2009
CRN: Majority of Americans continue dietary supplement regimen despite economic slump

The fact that today’s consumers are not willing to give up their dietary nutrition as...

October 8, 2009
Pharmacy groups praise delay of DME accreditation deadline

The real issue here is (and always has been) the inclusion of diabetes supplies as...

August 27, 2009
CVS Caremark study notes lack of adherence to cholesterol-lowering medications

When it comes to nonadherence of prescription medications, it is often senior citizens who are...

August 27, 2009
Walgreens announces Pharmacy Management Excellence program with Caterpillar

The news that Walgreens has reached an agreement with Caterpillar to help the company curb...

August 13, 2009
CVS Caremark study finds need for improvements in healthcare access, costs

CVS Caremark’s 2009 “Health IQ” study is yet another indicator coming from the private sector...

August 6, 2009
Op-ed: Adherence deserves historic collaboration

I took an opportunity at the 2009 NACDS Annual Meeting to reflect on words spoken...

August 6, 2009
Take Care Health Systems expands services; now offering nebulizer treatments at clinics nationwide

The fact that Take Care Health Systems has expanded its service offering to include nebulizer...

August 6, 2009
Washington, Mo., considers repealing recently passed PSE legislation

The objective here is closing down clandestine methamphetamine labs. The question is: Who is going...

July 30, 2009
MinuteClinic inks deal with American CareSource

MinuteClinic’s partnership with ancillary care network services company American CareSource not only underscores the fact...

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