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The Meijer spring Simply Give campaign will kick off Sunday, following a record-setting year in 2016 that raised $7.8 million for food pantries throughout the Midwest.

McKesson Specialty Health has played a significant role in the recent approval of Tesaro's Zejula.

Each day you encounter patients with multiple and various disease states, alignments, and questions. For some, questions they initially didn’t think they even had.

Overall, postmarket safety events were significantly more frequent among biologics, psychiatric therapeutics, drugs that received accelerated approval, and those with near-regulatory deadline approval.

With the recent rise in student loan rates pharmacy students may want to revisit cost-of-living numbers.

Pharmacists can play an important role in educating parents and teens about the dangers of drug abuse.

Anderson invited to present at Secretary’s listening session on the affordability, accessibility and availability of drugs for patients.

It is important to note that the 60=day rule requires “proactive compliance activities … to monitor for the receipt of overpayments.

As part of an ongoing review of fluoroquinolone antibiotics, FDA is informing the public that patient cases identified by the FDA and findings from published studies currently do not support reports that these medicines may result in detachment of the retina in the eyes, or bulges or tears in the aorta blood vessel.

How many patients does the average community pharmacist see who are nonadherent because they can't afford their medications?

A physician was sentenced this week for operating a drug distribution scheme out of his medical practice and for money laundering, according to a DEA press release.

Many patients with HIV who were on the leading edge of treatment advances are now in their 50s and 60s.

Cardinal Health named Jennifer Dawson the 2017 recipient of its urEssential Award, which recognizes the essential contributions medical laboratory professionals make to patient care.

Biologics, Inc., a McKesson Specialty Health oncology pharmacy services company, has been selected by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited to be a specialty pharmacy provider as part of the distribution network for Alunbrig.

The US Department of Veterans Affairs, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US, and drugstore chain Walgreens announced a collaborative agreement which will help improve mental health care for Veterans through enhanced education, access to resources and outreach.

CVS Health has released its tenth annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report, entitled Prescription for a Better World, providing updates on progress against the company's 2016 CSR goals, and establishing several new performance targets.

What are the best practice considerations for managing Parkinson's Psychosis?

The FDA has granted approval to avelumab (Bavencio, Pfizer) injection for treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (UC).

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump's pick, Scott Gottlieb, MD, to head the FDA, according to several published media reports.

The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) is thanking the 65 members of the House of Representatives who sent a bipartisan letter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis calling for implementation of the TRICARE Acquisition Cost Parity Pilot Program for Retail Pharmacy.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) offered insight into lifespan trends throughout the United States over the past several decades.

Buprenorphine could potentially have better treatment outcomes in infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) than traditionally used oral morphine, according to a study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Kisqali Femara Co-Pack is the only approved combination pack that includes 2 prescription drugs used to treat breast cancer.

The competition for positions in the world of pharmacy is fierce.

There are some key differences between Japanese and U.S. health care

The product is packaged with UPC code 0058049984 and can be identified by GEC Laxoplex.

Many adverse events associated with OTC cold medications are related to accidental unsupervised ingestions or dosing errors, which means better education from pharmacists and other health care providers may help reduce these events, according to a study published in Pediatrics this month.

The Kroger Co. has been honored by the Cincinnati Business Courier as a 2017 Healthiest Employer. The award recognizes the company for its commitment to the health and wellness of its more than 443,000 associates.