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..attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, isn’t just for kids anymore. Adults in the U.S. have overtaken children in taking medication for the condition and accounted for 53 percent of the industry wide 63 million prescriptions for ADHD drugs last year,…which makes the top-selling Vyvanse treatment.

Clark County officials want to limit the amount any one person can sell to 2½ ounces,...That would make it all but impossible for shops to have enough to open for business and would make required testing prohibitively expensive,.....

General Dynamics Information Technology,.. was awarded a contract to continue assisting the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services Retiree Drug Subsidy program. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a value of approximately $43.5 million….

...she turned on her computer …. She spoke to a physician, who used her computer’s camera to peer into her mouth and who then sent a prescription to her pharmacy. Nearly 20 years after such videoconferencing technology has been available for health services, fewer than 1 percent of Medicare beneficiaries use it.

The Walmart Foundation….will give away $15.5 million in grants to seven national nonprofits to support free meal and nutrition education programs this summer and throughout the school year. The programs in more than 7,700 communities across the country will help over 1 million low-income children and their families…

…dismissing most of Nikmanesh’s claims,… ruled that the lawsuit “lacked sufficient factual allegations” to support claims that Walmart cheated pharmacists out of work breaks, overtime pay, and did not compensate pharmacists for time spent studying for and completing immunization-training programs…the lawsuit gained new life recently when Guilford denied Walmart’s motion to dismiss it, ruling..

'Patients can actually begin to care for themselves – relieve the burden of the delivery system and get a better result' For those healthcare providers still resistant to technology, you've got a problem on your hands: You're going to be left behind. This is where healthcare it going – with or without you.

Acura Pharmaceuticals and Bayer Healthcare are partnering to develop a product with pseudoephedrine that would be resistant to being used in methamphetamine. Bayer will provide a worldwide license for Acura’s IMPEDE methamphetamine resistant technology for use in an undisclosed product with pseudoephedrine.

California pharmacist Afrouz Nikmanesh recently filed a class-action lawsuit against Walmart, alleging the retail giant cheated her and her colleagues out of work breaks and overtime pay.