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CMS will need more time before it issues a final rule on conditions for hospices to participate in Medicare and Medicaid.

A California man faces incarceration and a hefty fine for selling drugs over the Internet without the proper safeguards in place.

FDA warns about the dangers in Mommy's Bliss Nipple Cream.

The City of San Francisco is suing McKesson in federal court, alleging that the wholesaler conspired to inflate the gap between wholesale acquisition costs and average wholesale prices.

The results of 13 focus groups on Medicare Part D have been compiled into a report for MedPAC.

A new study finds a direct correlation between increasing drug costs and decreasing hospitalization costs.

The FAA has banned anti-smoking drug Chantix for pilots and air controllers over safety concerns.

A new Web site is offering a search engine of Internet pharmacies to identify those that meet standards of quality and business practices.

A CVS pharmacy in New York dispensed a chemo drug, instead of PTU, to a patient.

The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy has established a web site to target Internet pharmacies that do not meet its recommended criteria of online drug sales.

The National Associaton of Chain Drug Stores has submitted comments to House and Senate requesting they reject proposals to expand DME competitive bidding program to diabetic supplies.

The pharmacy benefit manager Prime Therapeutics announces that it has received VIPPS accreditation.

ASHP's latest survey of hospital pharmacists shows that they are increasingly a force to be reckoned with.

Entereg is a new drug to help hospitalized patients who have undergone abdominal surgery restore their bowel functions.

McKesson Patient Relationship Solutins' LoyaltyScript Program results in over $125 million in patient savings.

A CVS pharmacist has written and directed a comedy about a pharmacist and his encounters with patients during his graveyard shift.

ASCP launches assisted living manual.

CVS Caremark is partnering with Google on the launch of Google Health to provide consuemrs with secure access to their health information.

Bayer has reformulated Leukine without EDTA, which has been linked with fainting.

Medicis issues recall of two lots of antibiotic Solodyn.

The Cancer Prevention Coalition is urging the FDA in a petition to put a cancer warning on cosmetic talc powder products.

AstrasZeneca's antipsychotic in combination with lithium or divalproex is okayed for bipolar maintenance.

Winn-Dixie supermarket pharmacy is making it easier for customers to use their health savings account and flexible spending account cards.

Bayer will remove remaining supplies of Trasylol from market following the publication of negative study results.

Because Scientific Laboratories' products are not approved or have not met good manufacturing practices, FDA is barring them from being sold.

Consumers Union is urging the FDA to move ahead with requiring TV ads for Rx drugs to include a toll free number and a Web site address to report serious side effects from presciption drugs.

Faced with increased costs of supplying uncontaminated heparin, APP Pharmaceuticals adjusts the cost of its product.

A new report from Avalere Health has found that many drugs were dropped from CMS' 2008 Part D formulary files.