Content about Insights and Perspectives

June 11, 2009
Pharmacy groups brief Congress on health, cost benefits of MTM

Making sure that medication therapy management is a part of any new healthcare reform legislation...

June 11, 2009
Report finds vaccines are major area of growth

The report by Kalorama Information indicating that one of the biggest areas of growth has...

June 11, 2009
Waxman asks Obama to look for alternative pathway for biosimilars

Support for a regulatory pathway for biosimilars has grown rapidly, and even a few branded...

June 4, 2009
Calif. Senate passes pseudoephedrine bill, receives opposition from CHPA

Attempting to curtail methamphetamine production by more or less eliminating the precursor ingredient pseudoephedrine from...

June 4, 2009
Select Jewel-Osco pharmacies to offer special services to support hospice care

The news that Supervalu’s Jewel-Osco pharmacies have signed a contract with Passages Hospice to expedite...

June 4, 2009
Walgreens draws another line in sand, opting out of Delaware Medicaid fills

For pharmacy operators like Walgreens, the battle to tamp down state Medicaid budget cuts around...

May 28, 2009
NABP recommends state boards of pharmacy to require PTCB certification

The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board welcomed a recommendation this week by the National Association of...

May 28, 2009
NCPA survey: Accreditation requirements hinders pharmacists from offering DME equipment

Almost one-third of those community pharmacists who already offered DMEPOS services responded that they would...

May 28, 2009
Walgreens’ ‘Power’ initiative expands, centralizing workload in Florida, Arizona

Walgreens is serious about cutting its operating costs — nowhere more so than in its...

May 20, 2009
CVS opens Beauty360 No.3 in one of its original Project Life stores

If anyone thinks that CVS has recast itself solely as a healthcare company, given its...

May 20, 2009
SDI launches iPhone, iPod application for allergy sufferers

The addition of SDI’s Pollen.com allergy applications to the growing number of iPhone/iPod touch-friendly, health-related...

May 20, 2009
Walgreens’ PBM unit reports savings

Want to get the attention of health plan payers? Tell them you can save them...

May 14, 2009
NACDS, NCPA seek stimulus funds to build health IT, e-Rx infrastructure

The organizations representing the nation’s chain and independent drug stores have requested a chunk of...

May 14, 2009
Rite Aid shares climb above $1 — major hurdle cleared for No. 3 drug chain

Rite Aid has been fighting off the delisting of its shares trading on the New...

May 14, 2009
Target proxy battle heats up as annual meeting approaches

It isn’t often that one of America’s premier retail companies finds itself the subject of...

May 7, 2009
Allow e-prescribing of controlled drugs, key senators urge Obama administration

Having the endorsement of 11 senators around an issue that has become a bit of...

May 7, 2009
Ryan gives CVS shareholders plenty to be happy about; tips off new specialty pharmacy pilot

News that CVS Caremark is conducting a pilot of a specialty pharmacy program in Florida...

May 7, 2009
Walgreens sees more staffing changes

Look for more changes in the look and feel of the Walgreens drug store....

April 30, 2009
CVS Caremark develops Prior Authorization pilot program

CVS Caremark’s pilot program with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield...

April 30, 2009
N.Y. drug stores, organizations band together to fight off swine flu

The swine flu story first broke Friday, April 24, and quickly grew in prominence on...

April 23, 2009
IRI Research releases 2009 Private Label Trend Report

The growth of private-label and what it means to retailers and suppliers all depends on...

April 23, 2009
NACDS chief, state pharmacy leader appeal to consumers on Medicaid cuts

For years now, pharmacy leaders at the state and national level have waged a long...

April 23, 2009
Paperless prescribing hits milestone

Surescripts’ announcement that more than 100,000 physicians have jumped aboard the e-prescribing bandwagon is an...

April 16, 2009
AARP cites big jump in Rx prices

A report by AARP indicated that prices for branded drugs have increased at a rate...

April 16, 2009
Congress targets crime against retailers with 'Protect Your Pharmacy Week'

The fact that Congress stepped up to designate the week of April 13 as “Protect...

© 2013 Drug Store News. All Rights Reserved.