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Community pharmacy, also known as retail pharmacy, is the most common type of pharmacy that allows the public access to their medications and advice about their health. Traditionally known as a chemist, it is the healthcare facility that is responsible for the provision of pharmaceutical service to a specific community group or region.

Catamaran achieves five-star medication safety ratings

Catamaran Corp., a leading provider of pharmacy benefit management services and technology, today announced it has received a 2013 PQA Quality Award recognizing its five-star rating on all PQA measures in the Part D Star Ratings program.

30 May 2013

BayCare Health System, CHS agree to co-manage two onsite health centers for employees

BayCare Health System and CHS Health Services have agreed to co-manage two onsite health centers staffed by full-time physicians and nursing staff dedicated entirely for the health system's employees.

29 May 2013

CEO of Comprehensive Care named to 'America's Agenda: Health Care for All' board

Comprehensive Care Corporation, a leading behavioral health, substance abuse and pharmacy management provider for employers, Taft-Hartley health and welfare funds, and managed care companies, announced today that its Chairman and CEO, Clark A. Marcus , has been named to the Board of Directors of "America's Agenda: Health Care for All."

28 May 2013

FDA recommends health care providers not to administer steroid injections from Main Street

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Tennessee Board of Pharmacy to investigate reports of seven adverse events associated with steroid injections compounded by Main Street Family Pharmacy, LLC (Main Street) of Newbern, Tenn.

26 May 2013

Smartphone solutions for clinical trials

mHealth broadly refers to the use of a mobile device to send patient information to or from a medical service provider. In most medication management mobile applications that are out there now, the “information” sent is usually a unidirectional nagging reminder to the patient. The application may populate a diary or it may not.

24 May 2013

Senate immigration bill would ease restrictions on foreign health workers; Measure advances to increase scrutiny on compounding pharmacies

On Capitol Hill, several legislative efforts are moving forward on health issues. Among them is an effort by the Massachusetts delegation to keep bonus Medicare payments for the state's hospitals, while House Republicans are looking for another way to deal with a bill to fund high-risk insurance pools.

24 May 2013

New drug delivery system can help treat lung cancer

Researchers have developed a new drug delivery system that allows inhalation of chemotherapeutic drugs to help treat lung cancer, and in laboratory and animal tests it appears to reduce the systemic damage done to other organs while significantly improving the treatment of lung tumors.

23 May 2013

Researchers find that over 40% of patients treated for COPD did not actually have the disease

More than 40 percent of patients being treated for COPD at a federally funded clinic did not have the disease, researchers found after evaluating the patients with spirometry, the diagnostic "gold standard" for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

23 May 2013

Studies show that LipiGesic M provides highly effective OTC solution to migraine pain

PuraMed BioScience, Inc., a researcher, developer, and marketer of over-the-counter medicinal and healthcare products, announced the results of clinical trials that found its over-the-counter migraine medication product, LipiGesic M, has "robust efficacy".

22 May 2013

Experts develop new guidelines for safe and effective use of anticoagulants

Blood thinners are the preferred treatment option to prevent heart attacks, blood clots and stroke, but they are not without risk, and not just because of their side effects. These high-risk drugs, known as anticoagulants, account for nearly 7 percent of medication errors in hospitalized patients.

22 May 2013

COPD patients also experience significant amounts of chronic pain, researchers say

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is primarily associated with the respiratory symptoms that are its hallmark, but in fact, patients who struggle with the disease also experience significant amounts of chronic pain.

22 May 2013

Improving health care, reducing costs possible by breaking up physicians and drug company relationship

A new report suggests that improved health care and significant reductions in drug costs might be attained by breaking up the age-old relationship between physicians and drug company representatives who promote the newest, more costly and often unnecessary prescription drugs.

21 May 2013

RxAlly publishes white paper on Personalized Pharmacist Care

RxAlly, a first-of-its-kind alliance of more than 22,000 pharmacies nationwide, announces today the publication of a white paper entitled Personalized Pharmacist Care: Healing America's Post-Reform Health Care System.

21 May 2013

PRIUM creates Centers with Standards database for payer-clients

PRIUM, a medical intervention company that helps reduce the inappropriate use of prescription drugs on workers' compensation claims, wants to highlight good functional restoration clinics and chronic pain management clinics for its payer-clients.

20 May 2013

All sterile drug products from NuVision Pharmacy lack sterility assurance, FDA warns

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting health care providers of concerns about a lack of sterility assurance of all sterile drug products made and distributed by NuVision Pharmacy of Dallas, Texas.

20 May 2013

St. Louis College of Pharmacy students win national Script Your Future Award

A team of students at St. Louis College of Pharmacy and Washington University School of Medicine was chosen as one of three winners of the national Script Your Future Award, a national campaign to raise awareness about medication adherence.

17 May 2013

Regularly taking prescription painkillers is associated with higher risk of ED in men

Regularly taking prescription painkillers, also known as opioids, is associated with a higher risk of erectile dysfunction (ED) in men, according to a study published online today in the journal Spine.

17 May 2013

Roundup: Democratic opponents arise over Calif. governor's health care budget cuts; Veto of medical charity tax break scrutinized in Ga.

But Brown vowed to continue to resist pressure from fellow Democrats and interest groups to restore some money to adult dental care and to doctors who treat the poor. … Sacramento will oversee the expansion this year of Medi-Cal, California's health care program for the poor, to more than 1 million Californians who do not have health insurance now.

16 May 2013

Magic bullet nanomedicine offers potential treatment option for Acute Lung Injury

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have devised a 'magic bullet' nanomedicine which could become the first effective treatment for Acute Lung Injury or ALI, a condition affecting 20 per cent of all patients in intensive care.

15 May 2013

BioGaia inks distribution agreement for ProTectis baby drops and tablets in China

BioGaia has signed an agreement with Beijing Keyuan Xinhai Pharmaceutical Co Ltd for the exclusive rights to sell BioGaia's ProTectis baby drops and ProTectis and Gastrus tablets through the retail pharmacy channel in China from 2013.

13 May 2013

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Catamaran achieves five-star medication safety ratings

BayCare Health System, CHS agree to co-manage two onsite health centers for employees

CEO of Comprehensive Care named to 'America's Agenda: Health Care for All' board

FDA recommends health care providers not to administer steroid injections from Main Street

Smartphone solutions for clinical trials

Senate immigration bill would ease restrictions on foreign health workers; Measure advances to increase scrutiny on compounding pharmacies

New drug delivery system can help treat lung cancer

Researchers find that over 40% of patients treated for COPD did not actually have the disease

Studies show that LipiGesic M provides highly effective OTC solution to migraine pain

Experts develop new guidelines for safe and effective use of anticoagulants

COPD patients also experience significant amounts of chronic pain, researchers say

Improving health care, reducing costs possible by breaking up physicians and drug company relationship

RxAlly publishes white paper on Personalized Pharmacist Care

PRIUM creates Centers with Standards database for payer-clients

All sterile drug products from NuVision Pharmacy lack sterility assurance, FDA warns

St. Louis College of Pharmacy students win national Script Your Future Award

Regularly taking prescription painkillers is associated with higher risk of ED in men

Roundup: Democratic opponents arise over Calif. governor's health care budget cuts; Veto of medical charity tax break scrutinized in Ga.

Magic bullet nanomedicine offers potential treatment option for Acute Lung Injury

BioGaia inks distribution agreement for ProTectis baby drops and tablets in China

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