Hospitals throughout California are embracing smart pump technology as a way to reduce error and save lives. Among them are The Little Company of Mary (Torrance), Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and the Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center in Harbor City.
Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain cancer has made the world more aware of malignant glioma. While prognosis for brain-cancer patients is grim, new vaccines and drugs in the pipeline offer extended quality of life and hope of a cure.
Cook County's Provident Hospital in Chicago has opened a pharmacy three times the size of the old one. The new facility offers six customer-service stations instead of two, seating capacity for 90 people, an additional 1,400 square feet of work space, and restrooms.
Walgreens is taking the city of San Francisco to court to contest its ban on tobacco sales in pharmacies.
CleviprexTM is the first new IV antihypertensive treatment to be approved by the FDA in 10 years.
The pharmacy profession needs to turn around its Rodney Dangerfield attitude and start focusing on goals that serve its members as well as the community.
A survey of new drugs, new indications, new formulations, new generics, new OTC, and new HBC.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island teams up with Wellpoint NextRx, an independent pharmacy benefit management company, to offer Rhode Island physicians SureScripts-RxHub connectivity, expanding their use of electronic health records and managing patients' prescriptions online.
North Dakota pharmacists must own at least 51 percent of their pharmacies. This has kept many stores from opening in communities throughout the state. Hospitals and drugstore chains are fighting to change the law.
Baby boomer health concerns are just the beginning of what drives vitamin sales.
Readers tell Drug Topics their preferences in presidential candidates and many other issues.
When your pharmacy tech comes to work sporting a tongue stud, it's time to give her an ultimatum.
Across the country, independent pharmacies are going the extra mile for their communities. Innovative pharmacists share tips on how they stay successful in a competitive world.
FDA has approved Xenazine from Prestwick Pharmaceuticals for treatment of chorea in Huntington's disease. It is the first medication to treat any symptom of the disease.
Free clinics in West Virginia dispense more than 500,000 prescriptions a year. Earlier this year they came under regulation by the state pharmacy board. Defenders argue that the board is trying to fix something that isn't broken. The board says that patient safety requires oversight.
Criminals buy cold remedies for the pseudoephedrine, which they use to make methamphetamine. Kansas pharmacists are fighting back with MethShield, an electronic program that tracks sales and catches illegal purchasers in the act. It even calls the cops.
Pharmacists speak out about Pharmacy Alliance, the new PhRMA marketing code, and a third drug class
Longs Drugs has turned down an unsolicited purchase offer of $3 billion from Walgreens and plans to move forward with its sale to CVS Caremark.
FDA has approved clotrimazole cream USP 1 percent for treatment of skin itching or burning.
In addition to its earlier FDA approval for prevention of cervical cancer, Gardasil has received FDA approval for use in preventing vaginal and vulvar cancers in girls and women age 9 to 26.
Less than a week after Hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast, the Galveston Walgreen's was back in business.
Patient education and self-management are key to successful diabetes care. Pharmacies around the country are initiating classes and programs and offering special supplies and products geared to people with diabetes.
Previous medication therapies for diabetes were limited to insulin, sulfonylureas, and metformin. Promising new approaches include DPP-IV inhibitors, GLP-1 analogues, and SGLT-2 inhibitors.
In addition to syringes and insulin vials, products already on the market or in the works include insulin pens, pumps, patches, sprays, and inhaled and oral insulin.
While emergency officials scramble to restore power to homes and businesses throughout the hurricane-ravaged Galveston, Texas-area, Walgreens has reopened it store in the midst of the city to provide much-needed supplies and pharmacy services.
PhRMA member companies are advising RxResponse, a consortium of groups that work together to make sure vital medicines are readily available after a natural or man-made disaster.
FDA approves clotrimazole cream. The generic will be available in 15g tubes, 30g tubes, and 45g tubes.
A new fully synthetic heparin may be safer and more pure than the current heparin product.
Pharmacists express doubts about PhRMA's new marketing code, e-prescribing, and prompt pay.
A new label design from PharMEDium should make a medication's name and dose easier to read and recognize. The enhanced labeling will be applied first to four patient-controlled, IV pain-management drugs as well as local anesthetics for nerve-block therapy.