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Medicare bill considers paying for oral cancer drugs

Georgia bill regulates PBMs

APA releases new guidelines to treat bipolar disorder.

Handheld devices let physicians compare drug prices when they are prescribing

NIOSH to publish safety alert related to cytotoxic drugs

Feds post quality of nursing homes on Web for consumers to comparison shop

Pharmacists feel they're gaining authority in some areas and lagging in others

PDUFA law renewal draws consumer protest

American Pain Society recommends using OxyContin to treat patients with arthritis.

drug topics selects costco as pharmacy chain of the year 2002

New Mexico law will allow psychologists to prescribe

New guidelines treat breast cancer.

NACDS proposes a one-card program but pharmacists have mixed reactions

pharmacy benefits trends in US

On March 8, 2002, the FDA announced the approval of interferon beta-1a (Rebif, Serono) for the treatment of relapsing forms of MS. The FDA based its approval on the results of two trials.

Community pharmacy rejected the Bush administration's new plan for Medicare Rx discount cards as a rehash of the first proposal unveiled in July, 2001.

An alphabet soup of suffixes has arisen for controlled-release drugs, increasing the potential for drug errors

There's an alphabet soup of titles for the pharmacy profession now

VA pharmacists may have to give up their prescriptive authority unless their state allows the practice

Walter Fitzgerald speaks on Third Party Contracting: Understanding the Deal at NCPA conference in Vegas 2002

walgreens and cvs launch new advertising campaigns in 2002

The Delaware Pharmacist Society has partnered on several projects that pay pharmacists for their services.

ASHP is alarmed by JCAHO's proposed standard that eliminates the prospective check by an R.Ph. when an Rx is generated by a computerized physician order entry systems.

JCAHO standards for small, rural hospitals

Merck & Co. announed plans to spin off its Merck-Medco pharmacy benefit manager subsidiary as a separte company.

ASHP is alarmed by JCAHO's proposed standard that eliminates the prospective check by an R.Ph. when an Rx is generated by a computerized physician order entry systems.

An NACDS study projects modest increases in the number of community pharmacists through 2006.

New services help pharmacies negotiate the fine art of drug pricing