Eileen Oldfield Associate Editor

Teenagers prescribed anxiety or sleep medications are up to 12 times more likely to illegally abuse those drugs than their peers who had never received a prescription.

Beginning therapy within 12 months of HIV detection associated with lower AIDS risk.

Therapy extended lives of patients by approximately 5 months.

Digoxin is associated with a 71% increased risk of death and a 63% higher risk of hospitalization among adults diagnosed with atrial fibrillation who have no evidence of heart failure.

Children exposed to antibiotics during the second or third trimester of pregnancy have an 84% higher risk of being obese at age 7 compared with children who were not exposed to the drugs in utero, according to new research published in the Journal of Obesity.

The flavorings used to improve the taste of electronic cigarettes may pose their own respiratory health hazards.

A man from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, has been arrested and charged with robbing the same CVS pharmacy 4 times.

Among other pharmacy crimes, a Rite Aid in New Hampshire was recently robbed of 1100 Oxycontin pills.

Robbing the Jobstown Pharmacy in Dublin was apparently tiring work for 2 suspects, as Irish authorities found them asleep on a pile of stolen money.

Women may need more frequent ART doses to prevent HIV transmission than men, a mathematical model suggests

A suspect who allegedly robbed Eckerd Pharmacy in Ashland City, Tennessee, at gunpoint and then led police on a high-speed, cross-county chase was apprehended on the night of November 4, 2014.

The Sheriff's Office in San Mateo County, California, is searching for a man suspected of robbing at least 6 pharmacies in San Francisco at gunpoint while allegedly dressed up as a clown.

A North Carolina District Attorney will announce next week whether he will pursue the death penalty against 2 men charged with beating a University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy professor to death.

New research suggests strict antihypertensive medication use to lower systolic blood pressure offers no clear benefit in older adults with hypertension, so mild control is acceptable for those aged 65 years or older.

A Walgreens and Greenhouse Pharmacy situated in San Francisco were robbed of prescription medications on the eve of Halloween.

Although trans fat intake has dropped over the past 30 years, most American adults still consume more than the amount recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA).

In hospitals with antibiotic stewardship programs dedicated to the appropriate use of antibiotic prescriptions, children are discharged sooner and are less likely to be readmitted.

Will using HealthKit during the day keep adverse events away? Apple Inc. certainly hopes so.

Could the key to fighting modern illnesses lie in a disease that was an epidemic centuries ago?

Although only 38% of respondents to a recent Pharmacy Times poll have ever reported an armed robbery at their pharmacies, the experience remains jarring for those who do report the crime.

Sometimes, the pharmacist just can't leave the counter. At certain locations, that dedication persists even after death, leading to tales of spectral pharmacists causing mischief and strange events at their former pharmacies.

Police have taken suspects into custody in conjunction with recent armed robberies at Rite Aid and CVS pharmacies.

Members of Congress have launched an investigation into the increasing generic drug prices that are plaguing both patients and pharmacists.

Police in Hawaii have arrested and charged a man with second-degree robbery after he allegedly threatened to blow up a pharmacy if the staff did not give him drugs.

A dendritic cell vaccine for MS attacks the condition early, while preserving the immune system.

From West Virginia to Utah, robbers have demanded narcotic drugs from pharmacies at gunpoint.

Armed robberies recently occurred at 2 Walgreens and a Rite Aid in Greensboro, North Carolina, alone.

Armed robberies were recently reported at Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid pharmacies across the United States.