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Hy-Vee announced…that it would be placing retail clinics in two new Twin Cities-area stores opening in September…in the New Hope and Oakdale stores, Hy-Vee has teamed with North Memorial Health Care, whose physician assistants and nurses will staff the North Memorial Express Clinics…customers will not only have access to our in-store dietitians and pharmacists, but now they will be able to seek health, wellness and preventive care services all in one stop,..

'We've started by pairing the oldest and the newest tools in the medical toolkit – the stethoscope and the smartphone.'…The FDA has cleared Eko Core, a digital stethoscope designed by medical devices startup Eko Devices..."a next-generation" stethoscope – billed as the only one on the market to wirelessly stream heart sounds to a HIPAA-compliant smartphone app. It is also the first to integrate heart sounds directly into the patient's EHR.

Drugmakers in Japan, U.S. and Europe are teaming up to discover new drugs based on human genetic data. Led by the National Cancer Center of Japan, the joint research by private companies and academic institutions will collect genetic information from cancer patients to build a database for clinical trials.

CVS Health Corp said..its decision to stop selling tobacco products last year led to a 1 percent decrease in cigarette sales...The September 2014 decision hurt sales, with general merchandise revenue at CVS pharmacies open at least a year falling 7.8 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier,.., CVS said it benefited in others ways…nicotine patch purchases rose 4 percent…visits to its retail clinics for smoking cessation counseling nearly doubled.

Bruce Berger, PhD, president of Berger Consulting LLC, discusses the behavioral patterns that contribute to a patient’s propensity to be more or less adherent to their medications. (video)

GlaxoSmithKline faces constraints in supplying hepatitis B treatment Tenozet in Japan because of curbed operations at its China plant that makes the treatment after a massive chemical explosion that rocked country's Tianjin manufacturing hub in early August…said cleanup operations related to the..blast have blocked access to the plant where Tenozet is produced and the facility has remained idled since last month's explosion.

(Mario DeSanctis) director of the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been fired, becoming the second top official ousted amid reports of over-medication practices at the facility…. reports of excessive opioid prescriptions being written there… patients at Tomah facility were more likely than patients at other VA hospitals to receive high doses of pain killers.

Chris Hatwig, MS, FASHP of Apexus discusses what health-system pharmacists need to know about the potential for HRSA audits to review 340B program compliance requirements. (video)

Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division…announced today the indictment and arrest of Dr. Gerald Surya, an internist and senior aviation medical examiner with offices at JFK International Airport... sold prescriptions for oxycodone, a powerful opioid painkiller, and other controlled substances to a select group of "patients" in exchange for cash...allegedly wrote prescriptions in the names of individuals with no legitimate medical need for the controlled substances..

To date, nearly 143.8 million people have had their protected health information compromised in a HIPAA breach. Here's a list of the 10 biggest in the U.S.