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When a veterinarian prescribes a medication, that prescription is often filled at a local community pharmacy….community pharmacists have little formal training in this area….It is difficult to know how to treat veterinary "patients" when different species and breeds can have vastly different responses to a treatment….

Sales at CVS Health are getting "smoked."… CVS became the first major pharmacy chain in America to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in its stores. The drug store chain said it was the right thing to do -- even though it would hurt sales….prescription sales continue to rise, general merchandise sales tumbled nearly 8% last quarter on a same-store basis.

two largest pharmacy benefit managers —Express Scripts and CVS Caremark—have just released their 2016 formulary exclusion lists…CVS Caremark’s 2016 list has 124 products, including 31 new additions. Express Scripts, which is much more public about its strategy, has only 80 products and fewer additions to its list...

most of the 1990s, Gallup’s annual Honesty and Ethics Poll ranked pharmacy as the most trusted profession…now belongs to nursing… Several factors led to this shift… This comes at a pivotal time for our profession, when obtaining provider status is within our grasp...

Few individuals can offer as unique a perspective on the evolving role of pharmacy technicians as Scott A. Meyers,RPh....is a member and the former chair of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board Board of Governors, positions that have enabled him to oversee and bear witness to a number of changes in the technician profession.

new app is looking to give Manhattanites a reprieve from standing in line at the pharmacy. Zipdrug,…allows users to have their prescriptions delivered on-demand within an hour… bicycle messengers will pick up medications — except for controlled substances — from the user’s preferred pharmacy,…so long as the prescriber submits an electronic script.

Armada Health Care…announced a partnership with the clinical pharmacy services unit at the University of Massachusetts Medical School to help improve and provide support for the specialty pharmacy group contractor’s ArmadaOne specialty pharmacy workflow platform…The collaboration will. …support… therapy interventions and clinical protocols..

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has suspended enrollment in two Medicare Part D plans sold by Torchmark Corp. because of "widespread and systemic" failures that contributed to the program's highest complaint rate,..."intermediate sanctions" that will result in suspension of enrollment and marketing activities …

global market for telemedicine is expected to be worth more than $34 billion by the end of 2020…Driving growth…is an increasing aged population, increasing incidences of chronic diseases and rapid rise in the software market… many healthcare systems are trying to reduce both the number of hospital visits and the length of stay …trend for patients to be monitored in their home environment..

Those who fear needles are not likely to want to experience the prick more than once. And even experienced medical professionals can miss a vein sometimes, so it helps to have a little guidance…VeinViewer uses harmless, near-infrared light to show precisely where veins are located and take the guesswork out of the process.