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NACDS Foundation honors scholarship winners with grants
PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation awarded $230,000 in scholarships and grants at its Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, Fla., this week.

Recipients of 2016 NACDS Foundation Scholarships were presented with their awards on Monday night at an NACDS Foundation event during the NACDS Annual Meeting.
Americans get failing grade - only 3% follow all four basic healthy lifestyle recommendations
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Only 2.7% of the U.S. adult population achieves all four of some basic behavioral characteristics that researchers say would constitute a "healthy lifestyle" and help protect against cardiovascular disease, a recent study concluded.

Health Dialog teams with L.A. Care Health Plan on Nurse Line access

BOSTON — Population health management solutions company Health Dialog announced Monday that it would be partnering with L.A. Care Health Plan to give the provider’s direct lines of business members in Los Angeles County access to Health Dialog’s Nurse Line.
CVS Health commits $50 million to deliver nation's first tobacco-free generation

WOONSOCKET, R.I. - CVS Health on Thursday announced the launch of "Be The First," a five-year $50 million initiative to help deliver the nation's first tobacco-free generation.
Survey: Knowledge gap means diabetic nerve pain goes undiagnosed

NEW YORK and ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The results of a recent s shared by Pfizer and the American Diabetes Association is suggesting that awareness, diagnosis and management of diabetic nerve pain lacks among many people with diabetes. “Community Health Perspectives” found especially significant knowledge gaps among Hispanic and African-American communities that experience symptoms of diabetic nerve pain.
Targeting better patient outcomes through care transitions, adherence

Here’s a fact that keeps health plan administrators and anyone else responsible for budgeting health costs awake at night: 1-in-5 hospital patients ends up back in the hospital within 30 days of their discharge. And the biggest factors pulling them back all have to do with medications — either through medication errors, nonadherence or adverse drug events.
Merck Consumer sponsors women's health global debate
BoozAid hits market with anti-flush, anti-hangover supplement
CDC: More than one-third of Americans are sleep deprived
Frost & Sullivan survey underscores need for patient engagement

NACDS Foundation honors scholarship winners with grants

Americans get failing grade - only 3% follow all four basic healthy lifestyle recommendations

Health Dialog teams with L.A. Care Health Plan on Nurse Line access

CVS Health commits $50 million to deliver nation's first tobacco-free generation

Survey: Knowledge gap means diabetic nerve pain goes undiagnosed

Targeting better patient outcomes through care transitions, adherence

Merck Consumer sponsors women's health global debate

BoozAid hits market with anti-flush, anti-hangover supplement

CDC: More than one-third of Americans are sleep deprived

Frost & Sullivan survey underscores need for patient engagement