Pharmacy News
2012-05-17 Featured Story
WASHINGTON - Doctors increasingly are ditching the prescription pad. Read More »
2012-05-16 Featured Story
The DEA suspended Cardinal Health, the country's second-largest drug distributor, from selling and shipping powerful painkillers and other drugs from its Lakeland, Fla., facility for two years as part of a settlement reached Tuesday. Read More »
2012-05-17 Drugs Treatment
As the manufacturers of 80% of the prescription drugs dispensed in the U.S., the generic pharmaceutical industry is committed to providing patients with the safe and effective medicines they need at a price they can afford. Read More »
2012-05-17 FDA Approvals
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is aware of the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, on May 17, 2012, that compared the risks of cardiovascular death in patients treated with azithromycin (Zithromax), amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin (Cipro), levofloxacin (Levaquin), and no antibacterial drug. Read More »
2012-05-17 Policy & Reform
The most underused health professional in the United States is clearly on the minds of people working at CMS. Read More »
2012-05-16 Healthcare Updates
The government will launch a first-ever collaborative, multimillion-dollar drug trial to try to prevent a form of Alzheimer's disease, participants said during a two-day research summit at the National Institutes of Health. Read More »
2012-05-16 Pharmacy
BENTONVILLE, Ark., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Walmart announced today that it will be among the first retailers to offer Clopidogrel, the generic version of Plavix(R). Read More »
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