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CVS Caremark focus on medication adherence saved PBM clients more than $643 million in 2012

When you're making a big purchase-a car, for instance-the most important thing to remember is that there is always room for negotiation.

Law school graduates are facing an increasingly tough job market and some have even sued their schools for failing to deliver employment upon graduation. Will pharmacy graduates do the same?

More than a dozen states now allow medical marijuana as a treatment for glaucoma, although medical opinions of its suitability are mixed.

Autism is more commonly diagnosed in children than juvenile diabetes, AIDS, and cancer combined, but researchers have a long way to go in understanding the condition's cause.

Industry warns against patent settlement and rebate provisions that will drive up costs, hurt consumers

Spring is the time for fresh fruit, BBQ on the charcoal grill, and, most of all, Boston cream pie.

After hospital pharmacists joined the cardiology team and made recommendations regarding treatment of acute coronary syndrome patients, adherence to clinical guidelines improved markedly.

Which personality traits will help pharmacists thrive in the profession as it goes through future changes?

The author discusses how he chose pharmacy as a profession as well as whether he would recommend it to others today.

Researchers have found no link between the amount of vaccine antigens received by the age of 2 years and the likelihood of developing autism.

A population-based study of older Caucasian women indicated that taking aspirin regularly over a longer period led to greater reduction in risk of developing melanoma.

The results of a large retrospective study support guidelines that recommend a conservative approach to stopping statin therapy and rechallenging with the same or a different statin in case of discontinuation.

Patients in an ongoing study on memory and aging with preclinical Alzheimer's disease were more likely to have low sleep efficiency and to nap frequently.

The court will decide whether "pay-to-delay" arrangements, in which the manufacturer of a branded medication pays another company to keep a generic version off the market, are legal.

Acute coronary syndrome patients often have complex medication regimens, which means that pharmacists play an important role in condition management and patient counseling.

Patients implanted with a drug-eluting stent who received a series of phone calls from nurses had much higher levels of adherence to dual antiplatelet therapy than patients who received usual follow-up care.

Acute coronary syndrome patients who received treatment for depression had fewer depressive symptoms than those in a usual-care group, according to the results of a study.

A review by a team of Italian researchers compares the available therapies for reducing stent thrombosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome.

More than half of diabetes patients who experienced aspirin resistance with once-daily dosing overcame it when aspirin was administered in 2 daily doses.

Peter Berger, MD, discusses the challenge of individualizing antiplatelet treatment for acute coronary syndrome patients.

A lecture on acute coronary syndromes by Kim A. Eagle, MD, director of the Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan Health System.

Jeffrey Berger, MD, discusses how research can help increase adherence to therapies among acute coronary syndrome patients.