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The Ninth Circuit Court has upheld a Washington state law requiring pharmacies to provide patients with all medications in a timely manner.

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There is no shortage of OTC products promising to help maintain healthy hair and scalp, or to repair dry or damaged hair. Check these out, for starters.

In 1974, pharmacists and the pharmacy industry dealt with several important issues.

With Spark Health, pharmacists can track patients' data, monitor their outcomes, and give them plenty of warm fuzzies, 21st-century-style.

Few treatment options are available for irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea. Eluxadoline acts on the nervous system to lessen bowel contraction.

FDA has issued a warning about a possible link between use of SGLT2 inhibitors and ketoacidosis.

A recent study examined the benefits of extending warfarin therapy for an additional 18 months after an initial six-month treatment period.

CVS Health is crediting its decision to remove tobacco products from its shelves a year ago with a reduction in the numbers of cigarettes sold in some states.

HIV patients whose antiretroviral therapy was initiated and managed by pharmacists achieved earlier viral suppression compared with those managed by a primary HIV clinician, according a report published in the September 1 issue of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.

Sandoz announced that Zarxio (filgrastim-sndz), the first biosimilar approved by the FDA in March, is now available in the United States.

The state of Illinois will launch a pilot program next year to try to answer that question.

Kmart has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle charges it used illegal inducements to encourage Medicare patients to forego generics for more expensive brand names.

FDA issued a warning this week that dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors for type 2 diabetes may cause severe and disabling joint pain.

Guest columnist The Cynical Pharmacist offers a proposal every retail pharmacist will love.

More than 7 out of 10 Americans believe that drug costs are unreasonable and drug companies place profits before people, according to a recent Kaiser Health Tracking poll.

Florida’s crackdown on pill mills has resulted in decreases in opioid prescriptions, according to an online study published by JAMA Internal Medicine.

While the rate of new drug shortages has fallen, manufacturing problems and FDA import bans continue to cause shortages of certain medications in U.S. hospitals.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded an $8.3 million grant to Xavier University (XU) of Louisiana College of Pharmacy to recruit underrepresented minority students and faculty members.

Now that a judge has granted conditional class certification to a lawsuit claiming Walmart failed to compensate pharmacists for some time related to immunization training, the lead plaintiff is urging her former colleagues to join the litigation.

Here's more of what blew up Dennis Miller's mailbox.

Supermarket pharmacies averaged the highest customer-satisfaction scores in J.D. Power’s “2015 U.S. Pharmacy Study."

A Miami pharmacist recently pled guilty to charges she stole the identifying information of Medicare beneficiaries and then submitted fraudulent claims on their behalf.

Walmart is blaming lower margins in its pharmacy business for holding down overall corporate profits.

By joining together with other hospitals on medication purchasing and other efforts, Kalispell Regional Medical Center in Kalispell, Mt., has saved millions of dollars annually.

CVS Health recently introduced a new pharmacy service, ScriptSync, designed to enable patients with multiple Rxs to pick them up during one visit to the pharmacy.

Walgreens has agreed to pay $502,200 to settle charges that some of its pharmacists in California failed to provide patient consultations required by law.

Pharmacists open up about the ones that haunt their dreams.