In the early 1990s, when Health Mart was owned by regional wholesale distributor FoxMeyer, it was little more than a franchise tallying 800 stores. Now it is a pharmacy franchise logging 1,280 stores. The chain has experienced nearly a 400% growth rate over the past 10 months.
Longs Drug Stores announced that it has signed an agreement to exchange six stores with Rite Aid.
Take Care Health now operates 49 clinics in five states.
The pharmacy world is abuzz over the broadcast of a "20/20" report on pharmacy medication errors.
Rite Aid pharmacies have launched a two-month initiative to help allergy sufferers understand, minimize, and manage reactions to allergens.
CVS Corp. and Caremark Rx have formally closed their merger, creating the nation's premier integrated pharmacy services provider.
Shareholders of Caremark Rx Inc., the nation?s No. 2 PBM, gave the nod to a $26.5-billion merger deal with CVS Corp., the nation?s No. 2 retail drug chain.
CVS is hoping to introduce one million inner-city and rural youths to careers in pharmacy with the national launch of its ?Pathways to Pharmacy? internship program for 2007.
John Quincy Adams had been earning his annual $25,000 salary as the sixth U.S. President less than two months when Dr. Adam Carl opened his drugstore in the small south central Pennsylvania town of Greencastle.
Pharmacy education has been in an almost constant state of change for the past 150 years, since the era when a pharmacist learned by being an apprentice. That era was followed by a combination of apprenticeships and courses at local apothecary schools, and then by matriculating in schools of pharmacy for degree programs that gradually have been extended over the years.
CVS has received the 2007 ASA Business and Aging Award, presented at a joint conference held by the American Society on Aging (ASA) and the National Council on Aging (NCOA) in Chicago.
For 171 years a Thompson has been behind the counter at Thompson Drugs. Six generations of Heimstreets have counseled patients. The fourth generation of Seiferts recently began practice as a pharmacist, while Rupal Patel, a professor of pharmacy, is following the trail her grandfather blazed ... in India.
Pharmacist salaries are still climbing, but at a slower rate. Our exclusive survey shows who gets top dollar.
Pharmacy representatives attending an American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) editorial panel meeting recently in San Diego have asked the panel to make codes for medication therapy management (MTM) permanent.
CHD Meridian Healthcare, an I-trax Inc. company, appears to have struck the right note with large corporations seeking to bring on-site clinics to their employees.
Picture this. A man walks into a pharmacy to buy condoms. He hopes he can quickly whisk them from the shelf and pay for them without attracting attention. But ... they are locked up in a case along with the razor blade cartridge replacements. A note on the cabinet states, "Please ask attendant for assistance for items in this case."
Like it or not, health-system pharmacies are under tremendous pressure to perform at a high level. Addressing patient safety concerns, improving outcomes, implementing state-of-the-art technology, and keeping drug costs down requires a juggling act that pharmacists must perform on a daily basis.
