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Pharmacies

Cutting Off Essential Health Care for HIV Patients: The Latest Managed Care Scheme

David Balto | Posted 02.05.2013 | Los Angeles
David Balto

The holiday season is a time to reflect on and cherish our relationships with family, friends, and others that we see every day. But for thousands of HIV patients in Los Angeles, this holiday season will mean the loss of the critical relationship they have with their local specialty pharmacist.

Practice Safe Rx

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 02.02.2013 | Los Angeles
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

While Americans never have enjoyed access to so many pharmaceutical products with such life-sustaining and lifesaving properties, these drugs also have proven to be expensive -- prohibitively so for many -- and subject to shortages.

Jeffrey Young

Drugstores Struggle To Fill Prescriptions In Areas Hard-Hit By Hurricane Sandy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 11.01.2012 | Business

Hundreds of drugstores across New York and New Jersey remain closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy as pharmacists, corporate chains, independent ...

Human Pharmacies Increasingly Offering Pet Medications

Posted 06.27.2012 | Business

It’s now more convenient for Rover to get his medication, as more pharmacy chains are offering access to prescription pet medications, the Sun Senti...

Walgreens To Experiment With Offering Free AIDS Tests: CDC

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 08.26.2012 | Business

ATLANTA -- Getting an AIDS test at the drugstore could become as common as a flu shot or blood pressure check, if a new pilot program takes off. The ...

Print Your Own Prescription Pills With A 3D Printer

Posted 04.24.2012 | Home

Scientists at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom have made strides in research they believe could lead to the development of at-home drug...

Cash-Strapped State Gets Enormous Reward For Google Investigation

AP | LAURA CRIMALDI | Posted 06.03.2012 | Business

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — Rhode Island law enforcement agencies that participated in an investigation that resulted in Google Inc. forfeiting ...

PBM Merger Means More Bad News For Consumers

Eva M. Clayton | Posted 03.30.2012 | Business
Eva M. Clayton

American consumers, still worried about finding or keeping their jobs and paying their bills in today's troubled economy, could receive another blow if a major health-industry merger between Express Scripts, Inc. and Medco Healthy Solutions is approved.

Child's Play: The PBM Merger That Can Learn From Childhood Lessons

John Horton | Posted 02.01.2012 | Business
John Horton

As regulators consider the Express Scripts/Medco merger, they should consider the patient's point of view -- and whether the market is already so concentrated that the proposed merger will simply make an existing problem worse.

Little Neck, NY: For Local Drug Store, The Prescription Is Personal

littleneck.patch.com | Posted 01.10.2012 | Home

"We know our customers on a one-on-one basis, by their names. We try to help them on a personal level."...

Iceland Trying To Make Cigarettes Prescription-Only

Newser | Posted 09.04.2011 | World

In Iceland, you may soon need to head to the pharmacy to get your cigarettes. The country is considering a counter-intuitive measure that would make c...

Duane Reade To Further Ruin Williamsburg

freewilliamsburg.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

According to the "I'm Boycotting Duane Reade to Save Williamsburg" facebook group, a Duane Reade will be opened on Bedford, directly across from Kings...

Big Box Prescription Bargains -- Less Than Meets the Eye?

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos

Big box stores are in business to make money, not to subsidize your health care. Be aware of the research and study that have gone into making the attractive product displays.

7 Independent Pharmacies Still Surviving In NYC

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

For years now New York has been rapidly taken over by the big chain pharmacies. While they're great for a Tide stick and the occasional bottle of wat...

Drugstore Owners Look to Cash in on Health Care Reform

Hilary Kramer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Hilary Kramer

The American people need to realize that the price being paid for this health care reform is high.

Duane Reade at Death's Door?

Gothamist | John Del Signore | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Despite (or because of?) its ubiquity, Duane Reade is deeply in debt, and last week its corporate parent, private-equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partner...

Recession Pushing Cost of Drugs Out of Reach

nytimes.com | KEVIN SACK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

OCKY MOUNT, N.C. -- A year or so ago, when customers buttonholed the pharmacists at Almand's Drug Store here the questions were invariably about dosin...

Pharmaceutical Drug Pushers Lead to National Overdose

Francesca Biller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Francesca Biller

I only hope that some woman is lucky enough to be with a man who becomes afflicted with one side effect Viagra claims, a condition known as priapism, ...

Happy Holidays, New York.

Joan Malin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Joan Malin

Thanks to one stroke of pen by George W. Bush, New Yorkers can no longer go to the Emergency Room and trust that a provider's sole motivation is to give the best care available.

Corporate Policies Can Play Role In Pharmacy Errors

USA Today | Kevin McCoy, Erik Brady | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Pharmacy chains say they've spent billions of dollars on safety technology and other improvements that have cut their prescription-error rates to a fr...