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Omnicare and the federal government plan to settle a lawsuit accusing Omnicare of accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks from Abbott Laboratories in exchange for pushing doctors to prescribe a certain drug to dementia patients,..

Drug stores are showing their potential as sites for cancer screening technology, enhancing their value as a destination for preventive care...SIAscopy technology...part of the Walgreens Alliance Boots..in the United Kingdom...mole-scanning service is based on a successful model in...pharmacies in Norway as well as in a Swedish pharmacy chain,..

Patients may expect cleaner than clean conditions in a hospital..In one of four hospitals across the country hand washing – the best-known way to prevent hospital infections – is apparently not a priority. "It puts patients, clinicians, and all health care workers at risk when hand washing is not a priority. Hospital-acquired infections kill about 10 percent of those afflicted…”

FDA is strengthening an existing warning…to indicate that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke,...

The recent concessions wrung from the CMS by the American Medical Association and other ICD-10 protesters are no panacea for a smooth transition to the voluminous and complex codes.

Urged on by the medical industry and patients' groups, the House overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan bill that would speed federal approval of drugs and medical devices and boost biomedical research...The new spending would be paid for, mostly by selling $7 billion worth of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the government's emergency oil stockpile...$2.5 billion would come from trimming federal Medicaid reimbursements to states.

Jeff Bradstreet … target.. of a search related to an experimental drug for autism….The compound, globulin component macrophage-activating factor,..(GcMAF),… authorities were seeking…“evidence of a crime and contraband, fruits of crime, or items illegally possessed” associated with violations of interstate commerce…products that are “adulterated or misbranded”…

Hospitals are increasingly adopting technologies aimed at reducing medication and other errors, but they continue to struggle with variation in the quality of care provided to patients and in adoption of safe practices...

..public hospital districts in rural Eastern Washington have adopted an innovative technology solution that gives providers real-time data on patients with chronic conditions. The system not only promotes better care coordination, but positions the providers for the shift to value.(video)