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  • Nielsen identifies the 3 core shopper groups utilizing retail clinics

    CHICAGO -- Nielsen on Thursday identified three core consumer groups who are gravitating toward utilizing the kind of convenient and affordable health services available through retail clincs in a pharmacy setting including households with children, Hispanic shoppers and millennials.

  • Stork OTC represents affordable, efficacious in-home solution to infertility treatments

  • At Home Viniferamine launches line of hospital-grade skin care kits

    NAPLES, Fla. - At Home Viniferamine on Thursday announced the introduction of At Home Viniferamine skin care kits, a line of hospital-grade skin care to help facilitate caregiver ease and convenience.

    The line incudes eight skin care kits, each priced below $20, to help caregivers provide skin and wound care. The kits include specialized products, as well as educational booklets that allow caregivers to continue skin and wound care treatment protocols used in care facilities.

  • Fruth honors employees with 26th annual awards

    POINT PLEASANT, W.V. — Fruth Pharmacy recently honored its employees with its Annual Service Awards, marking the 26th year the company has celebrated its employees’ accomplishments and years of service. Awards were given out for Manager of the Year, Pharmacist of the Year, Pharmacy Technician of the Year and Associate of the Year. The company also honored employees for years of service in five-year increments.
     

  • Albertsons, HCSC team to tackle adherence

    Customer-owned health insurer Health Care Service Corporation has launched a multi-phase program called Pharmacists Adding Value and Expertise in collaboration with Jewel-Osco, Safeway and Albertsons Pharmacies in Illinois, Montana and New Mexico, as well as with the Texas Pharmacist Association. The move represents the company's effort to help improve medication adherence rates with its Medicare and dual-eligible (Medicare/Medicaid) members.
     

  • Veterans prefer retail pharmacy over VA pharmacies

    COSTA MESA, Calif. - As retail pharmacy celebrates America's military veterans on Friday, those veterans are celebrating retail pharmacy, at least those brick-and-mortar pharmacies not located within a VA medical center, a recent J.D. Power survey found.

    One reason? The ordering process. Veterans were more satisfied with retail brick-and-mortar pharmacies as compared to medical center pharmacies.

  • New ad campaign advocates 'green prescriptions' in combating chronic conditions

    LOS ANGELES - Lifestyle Prescriptions Foundation on Thursday launched the Lifestyle Prescriptions Awareness Campaign to educate health care providers about green prescriptions.

  • ALA and MD Anderson Center target 7 states for increased smoking cessation efforts

    CHICAGO –– The American Lung Association and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center on Wednesday formed a new partnership aimed at increasing coverage and access to evidence-based tobacco cessation treatments for Medicaid enrollees in seven states.

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