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Current treatments cannot cure cold sores, but they can relieve symptoms. Several new products offer promising results.

Controversy continues in Congress over Medicare Part D price controls.

While the new MIPPA law implements several pro-pharmacy measures, other provisions ultimately could hurt a pharmacist's bottom line.

Two US pharmacists volunteer at Beijing Olympics.

Medication management is part of the new 'medical home,' with primary care physicians taking responsibility for supervision of patient health and coordinated care.

Angry customers and overwork are a fact of life for retail pharmacists, who end up serving as technicians, cashiers, and anything else that's needed.

On October 1, 2008, San Francisco becomes the first city in the United States to ban the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in pharmacies.

Pharmacy Alliance launches in Galveston, Texas, to promote better working conditions for pharmacists.

New guidelines discuss how to treat HCV patients who also have kidney disease.

FDA has approved Stavzor, delayed-release soft gelatin capsules of valproic acid, for the treatment of bipolar disorder.

The American Heart Association issues new recommendations for treatment of pediatric stroke.

Cuts in state Medicaid payments for product reimbursements and dispensing fees are forcing pharmacists to cut services and turn away Medicaid patients.

Two counties in Wisconsin are using a reverse-distributor to round up unwanted drugs. The program, called Get the Meds Out, helps consumers in Waukesha and Winnebago Counties make free returns.

Pharmacists need to get ready now to help patients make the government-mandated switch from toxic CFC-driven MDIs to environmentally friendly HFA inhalers.

Pharmitas and U. of Washington will work together to create a medication therapy management program.

Chronic hepatitis B can now be treated with a new drug.

CVS Caremark acquires Longs Drugs, a California-based chain of 521 stores, for $2.9 billion.

The ban, the first of its kind in the nation, is set to take effect Oct. 1.

The products will be stocked in the retail chain's digestive section.

Mandate comes in regard to the risk of invasive fungal infections.

Drug may become the first approved once-daily therapy to treat advanced kidney cancer.

The government claimed that Doug Albers and his wholesale business, Albers Medical Distributors, grossed $26.3 million in fake or stolen drugs.

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Thirty-one percent of pharmacists surveyed said PhRMA's new marketing code is long overdue.

The groups have signed a two-year agreement.

Online pharmacy sales during the past year tripled to $12 billion.

The drug is marketed in Japan to treat low blood pressure.

The law means North Dakota consumers must travel elsewhere to buy the more than 300 drugs retailers like Wal-Mart and Target offer for $4.