Community Practice

In settling a class action suit, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has agreed to make changes to the low income subsidy program for Medicare Part D.

Sanofi-Pasteur's new Pentacel vaccine is cleared to protect against five childhood diseases.

One change involves prohibiting drug companies from distributing noneducational items to healthcare providers.

This capability enables patients to store and access their health records securely.

Bill would also reward physicians for acquiring and using electronic prescribing technology.

At least 17 babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at a hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, were given overdoses of the blood thinner heparin.

This is the first organ-specific magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent approved in this country in more than a decade.

More than 300 generics will be available.

Certain hospitals in Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey's network can pull electronic medication histories of patients in real time.

Pharmacists must give out a Medication Guide when dispensing these antimicrobial drugs.

One new program helps independents buy or sell a pharmacy.

The acquisition price is estimated at up to $5.6 billion.

California Pharmacists Association is upset with ruling.

Charity arm of CVS also donates cash to Red Cross for state efforts.

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority reviews more than 800 hospital reports.

Company claims mailing back used syringes is cost effective.

Both stents are designed to treat coronary artery disease.

Supplements pulled due to undeclared ingredient.

Suit was brought by the Alabama Attorney General against 73 pharmaceutical manufacturers.

As John Gans steps down from his role with the American Pharmacists Association, all eyes are on successor's role.

Medi-Cal slashed reimbursement for prescription drugs in California by 10%, effective July 1.

An independent healthcare consumer research firm honors MemberHealth for second straight year.

To date, getting physicians to order medications electronically has been slow to take off.

The National Community Pharmacists Association objects to the new settlement proposed in the suit against First DataBank.

Changes have been made to the Warnings and Adverse Reactions sections to the immunosuppressant.