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Prescription revenues provide insight on the power of top retail pharmacy businesses.If you’re curious to know how the retail pharmacy giants stack up against one another on prescription sales, here are the top 5 pharmacy chains based on 2014 figures:

1. CVS Health $48 billion in Rx revenues, $88.4 billion in pharmacy services revenue
2. Walgreens $49 billion
3. Express Scripts $38 billion
4. Walmart $18.8 billion
5. Rite Aid $18 billion

After several months of delays, the first store to sell medical marijuana legally..is open for business...Euphoria Wellness opened Monday morning several miles southwest of the Las Vegas Strip… vast majority of the state's 9,542 patient cardholders live in the Las Vegas area.

Because of the consolidation among generics companies over the last several years, the companies are running out of acquisition targets and as a result, specialty pharma firms are now in the M&A spotlight as acquisitive drugmakers search for new ways to fuel growth,.. 'We think some of the most attractive areas are in the niches. Areas like controlled release, topical or injectable generics.' Potential targets include Impax Laboratories, Akorn Pharmaceuticals and Sagent Pharmaceuticals Inc...

...new federal tool aimed at helping patients determine the best hospital for their care is raising questions over whether it provides an accurate assessment of quality.. CMS is developing a hospital quality star-rating system for the Hospital Compare website… We are not confident that the measures currently available…to create a single, methodologically sound rating of all aspects of hospital quality,".. should incorporate risk adjustment for socio-economic factors so results reflect differences in treatment across hospitals.

No one wants to talk about constipation. Except AstraZeneca. On national television. To the tune of almost $10 million in media spending… AZ's new TV campaign around OIC, or opioid-induced constipation, has two parts…One is a general awareness…The other effort is branded advertising for Movantik (naloxegol)…

..role of the health-system pharmacist in providing transitions-of-care services is expanding rapidly… medication-use practices have improved significantly among health-system pharmacists…survey, which was conducted by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, also showed progress in the use of medication safety technologies such as smart infusion pumps, barcode-assisted medication administration, electronic health records, and computerized order-entry systems.

..more and more, health care providers are teaming up with drugstores to provide care via in-store health clinics…trend based around convenience..shifts to focus more ..on the consumer, adapting means providing more services,..same-day access to a doctor, allowing people to interact with the health care system easily, and providing transparency...about the costs of procedures and quality of care.

Student leaders from Touro College of Pharmacy walked away with numerous top awards and scholarships at the conclusion of the 2015 Student National Pharmaceutical Association national conference held in July in Orlando, Florida.

• Olawonuola Abiona
• Basirat Adeyemi
• Justice Kwansa
• Sefa Kploanyi

Chris Nowakoski’s wife died..during what should have been a routine procedure...Danny Long’s wife..suffered catastrophic neurological injury during a surgery to relieve numbness in her extremities..families still don’t know the full story of what happened to their loved ones because of a lack of documentation and an inability to pursue a costly lawsuit...an estimated 400,000 a year people…die in the United States of preventable medical errors,..the families say they could have known much more if cameras had been installed in the operating rooms, recording the actions and movements of the doctors and staffers involved.

What qualifies a hospital IT department as best? So much more than money…. employee survey is officially closed and that means 65 IT shops – out of the nearly 200 initially nominated – have qualified and are in contention to be among our winners…What qualifies a hospital IT department as best?..career satisfaction, culture, immediate work unit, management and leadership, training, benefits, employee recognition and, well, the perks.