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Walgreens is rolling out a new program to reward its customers with cost savings, points, and rewards for purchases, services, and healthy behaviors.

Professions survive and prosper when mentors and their juniors embrace one another respectfully and cooperatively for the progressive promotion of their vocation. In this way, the seniors would not carry their valuable professional experience to their graves, and the juniors would not commit irreparable blunders as they enter the stage of practice.

Suppose a country were facing a flood of Biblical proportions but determined to focus on bringing in more tourism; what would you say about its priorities? Now suppose that country were a professional organization and ... well, read on.

Walmart has launched its own ReliOn brand diabetes products.

Remember when hardworking coal miners "owed their souls to the company store"? Look a little closer to home and you just might find that someone you know is in a very similar spot.

Great ideas are everywhere. Successful community pharmacists can spot them and tailor them to meet local needs. Here are four stories of how good ideas gave rise to even better ones.

If the Washington, D.C.-based Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative has anything to say about it, MTM will help shift pharmacists' roles from dispensing to direct clinical practice.

Healthcare delivery in the United States has evolved as more patients visit their neighborhood retail clinics for acute and preventive care.

While the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies program has come under fire for its inefficiencies, all is not yet lost.

FDA approves Lorcaserin and Mirabegron extended-release tablets.

Ticagrelor is shown to be better at platelet inhibition. Warfarin seen as beneficial to patients with PAH. Dabigatran's problems aren't over.

Findings at the International AIDS Conference support the need to start antiretroviral therapy as soon as possible after diagnosis.

A round-up of OTC products to help manage dandruff and head lice.

A survey of new Rx, new generic, and new OTC products

Despite growing consumer education, children and teenagers are increasingly abusing prescription drugs. Two manufacturers have recently launched products designed to keep Rx drugs secure in the home.

The Specialty Pharmacy Certification Board has developed a Certified Specialty Pharmacist credential, which it hopes to launch in early 2013.

Medication errors can't be completely eliminated, but can CQI programs keep them to a minimum?

An encounter with a police officer reminds JP that the world sees pharmacists only as pill counters.

Federal agencies have fined an LTC provider $50 million for improperly dispensing controlled substances.

Mandatory mail-order programs are hampering medication adherence, said Marie Smith, PharmD, during a recent roundtable on medication adherence.

The ways of PBMs are convoluted and mysterious. If we don't keep a sharp eye out, one of these days we'll be getting prescriptions out of vending machines.

Readers have their say on unionization, fair reimbursement, and self-regulation.

FDA has approved teriflunomide (Aubagio, Genzyme, a Sanofi company), a once-daily, oral treatment indicated for patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced yesterday that it has revoked the DEA registrations at 2 CVS pharmacies in Sanford, Fla., because of evidence of diversion of controlled substances and “imminent danger to the public safety,†according to a DEA press release.

A new technology add-on payment for Dificid (fidaxomicin) for Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea was recently approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The new EpiPen 2-Pak holds two EpiPens plus a training pen, meant for training patients and their family members. In one hospital, however, a training pen was being stored in the emergency department’s automated dispensing cabinet.

Qualitest, a subsidiary of Endo Health Solutions, has issued a voluntary, nationwide retail-level recall for one lot of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, USP 10 mg/500 mg.

Matthew Burriesci was appointed as the new director of development for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation on August 20.