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Discount Drug Mart has opened the first.. .MetroHealth walk-in clinics… expanding access to health services… clinic will be staffed by a nurse practitioner, who can assess…basic medical needs, administer vaccinations and prescribe medications. Evening and weekend hours will be offered and walk-in appointments are accepted. Providing these services…is the first step to delivering services where, when, and how patients want care."

…work gives satisfaction. What gives pharmacists satisfaction in the workforce? That depends on a number of factors.

Podcast interview with..David G. Miller, RPh, International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists Executive Vice President, and Jay McEniry, Executive Director, Patients and Physicians for Rx Access...topic is Tricare, and the current issues facing compounding pharmacists, and most importantly, the patients they serve.

Sen. Brown … introduced…legislation, …Stopping Medication Abuse and Protecting Seniors Act, to address prescription drug abuse by cracking down on doctor shopping… creation of a Medicare lock-in program ..through better monitoring of prescription patterns on the part of doctors, pharmacies and patients...

CVS Health… announced the launch of ScriptSync™, a new pharmacy service that enables patients with multiple medications to pick up their eligible maintenance prescriptions in a monthly…visit…patients…can manage their ScriptSync prescriptions 24/7 using…online support tools…aims to make it easier and more convenient for patients to take their medications as prescribed...

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued guidelines on biosimilar reimbursement,.. plans to create a separate code to distinguish a biosimilar from a reference biological, but that any distinguishing identifiers will “have no bearing on coding and payment.” .. the Biosimilars Forum sent a letter to … CMS,.. saying that the proposed rule would limit biosimilar options as a result of reduced investment in their development…

Many pharmacists dedicate themselves to improving the health of their patients and communities, but some answer an additional call: to provide their skills and knowledge in service to the military.

Department of Health and Human Services will fund 266 new primary care community health center sites in high-need areas nationwide to the tune of $169 million.. new sites, infused with Affordable Care Act funds, will increase care access for more than 1.2 million patients, according to HHS, building on $101 million the department gave to the program in May...

How can girls with psoriasis have fun? '80s icon Cyndi Lauper says she knows--and she has teamed up with Novartis to talk about … its new psoriasis med Cosentyx (secukinumab) as other next-gen rivals near the market. The "I'm PsO Ready" campaign aims to highlight the "physical, emotional and social challenges" of the skin disease..

Florida was considered the epicenter for the trafficking of illegal prescription narcotics. The DEA and local law enforcement shut down more than 250 so-called “pill mills” — clinics where doctors could sell narcotics directly to people for cash. Now Florida doctors can no longer dispense narcotics directly to patients...