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Adding another type of cholesterol-lowering drug to statin therapy can better prevent heart attacks and strokes in high-risk patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Today CVS Health announced it has signed a lease for the creation of a new Digital Innovation Lab at 116 Huntington Avenue in Boston, MA. The new 15,130 square feet Boston-based center will serve as a vital hub for the rapidly growing CVS Health Digital team, which will remain headquartered in Woonsocket, R.I. CVS Health also recently completed the opening of a new Digital Experience Center at the company's headquarters in Woonsocket, and is actively recruiting new talent for both locations.

Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy is proudly entering the eighth year of its Holiday Gift Bag Donation Program. The program offers customers the opportunity to purchase much-needed wellness and personal care products for a chosen local charity during November and December.

Medications might confer only marginal benefit for cognitive deficits in bipolar disorder.

Reasor's customers can choose to donate non-perishable food items, purchase a pre-made sack of the most needed items for $15 or pick up a scan card and donate any amount you would like at registers.

Walgreens will appeal a $1.4 million verdict after 1 of its pharmacists in Indiana violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act when she reviewed prescription records of a woman who once dated her husband.

The FDA is taking a look at a trial that showed 30 months of dual antiplatelet blood-thinning therapy decreased the risk of heart attack and clot formation in stents, yet increased the overall risk of death compared with 12 months of the treatment.

Antibiotic overuse and misuse threatens the efficacy of one of medicine's most valuable lifesaving tools. Concurrently, research and development for new antibiotics has been limited " creating a problem for generations to come. The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) is joining the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other partners in "Get Smart about Antibiotics Week" to highlight this alarming issue and raise awareness of strategies and programs to stop and reverse these trends.

The American Heart Association today presented its Research Achievement Award for 2014 to Shaun R. Coughlin, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, "for transcendent discoveries of cellular signaling mechanisms that control blood platelet activation and clot formation, findings that have led to a new medical therapy for preventing heart attacks and strokes."

The American Heart Association awarded its 2014 Population Research Prize to Vasan R. Ramachandran, M.D., of Boston University School of Medicine, "for brilliantly seizing upon opportunities to translate cutting-edge bench science into an epidemiological context, thereby making fundamental contributions to identifying systemic markers for cardiovascular risk, both here and in developing countries."

The American Heart Association's Council on Clinical Cardiology presented its highest honor, the James B. Herrick Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cardiology, to Kanu Chatterjee, M.B., of the University of Iowa, "in grateful recognition of his distinguished and productive career benefitting physicians and their patients worldwide."

The American Heart Association awarded its Clinical Research Prize for 2014 to Judith S. Hochman, M.D., of NYU Langone Medical Center "for exceptional leadership of landmark clinical trials profoundly impacting formulation of national practice guidelines for the management of ischemic heart disease."

The American Heart Association yesterday presented its Chairman's Award for excellence in volunteer service to Jennifer H. Mieres, M.D., of Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Hempstead, N.Y., and the North Shore-LIJ Health System, Lake Success, N.Y.

The American Heart Association today awarded its Basic Research Prize for 2014 to Ande Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., of the Mayo Clinic "for pioneering applications of emerging technologies to advance the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disorders." Terzic received the prize during opening ceremonies of the AHA's Scientific Sessions 2014 at Chicago's McCormick Place. Association President Elliott Antman of Boston presented the prize, a citation and $5,000 honorarium, recognizing outstanding achievement in basic cardiovascular science.

The American Heart Association presented one of its highest honors, the Eugene Braunwald Academic Mentorship Award, to time-honored medical epidemiologist Jeremiah Stamler, M.D., of Northwestern University in Chicago.

Implementing eye screening via telemedicine among patients with diabetes uncovered that 1 in 5 have diabetic retinopathy.

A Nebraska hospital has reported that one of its patients, a surgeon who had been working in Sierra Leone, has died from Ebola.

Once upon a time, not too long ago, there was a holiday that gave families the opportunity to spend time together.

Although most pharmacies carry a line of natural products, patients often turn to the Internet to find information on those supplements and purchase them.

The presence of pharmacists is one of the reasons why retail clinics are a disruptive force.

A pharmacist in the United Kingdom who got a little too curious about his friends' and family's medical records has been convicted of data protection offenses and fined.

Further research is needed to pinpoint a technician-to-pharmacist ratio that best ensures patient safety and quality care.

One pharmacist in England had more than a trick up his sleeve.

With a mission to help pharmacists throughout the world prevent the potential spread of the Ebola virus, the International Pharmaceutical Federation has launched a suite of resources to advise community pharmacists on the threat.