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May 5th 2025
An insider expressed skepticism about the company’s future, indicating that Rite Aid may be looking to close up shop entirely.
Opportunistic Infections: Better Have a Pharmacist Onboard
December 19th 2016Approximately 1.2 million individuals live with HIV/AIDS in the United States. This population is at an increased risk of opportunistic infections (OIs), an area where pharmacists have significant potential to make meaningful interventions.
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Low Vaccination Rates? Try The 4 Pillars
December 19th 2016Healthy People 2020, the national health promotion and disease intervention initiative, set the goal influenza vaccination rate in the community at 70%. Despite this goal, reports show that vaccination rates are way under expectations at 44%.
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FDA Removes Warnings on Smoking-Cessation Medication
December 17th 2016Removal of the boxed warning is based on the outcomes of EAGLES (Evaluating Adverse Events in a Global Smoking Cessation Study), which is a randomized, blinded, active- and placebo-controlled clinical trial, in patients without and with a history of psychiatric disorder.
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AMCP Joins Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies to Educate Providers About Illegal Online Pharmacies
December 16th 2016The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) is proud to join 16 other national nonprofit health care organizations in raising awareness among the provider community of illegal online pharmacies and counterfeit medications.
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A Shift In Thinking on When to Initiate Antiretroviral Therapy
December 15th 2016The recommended time to begin antiretroviral therapy (called the ART-start threshold) has changed since ART first arrived in the mid 90s. Now, clinicians are able to prescribe ART more liberally because of its improved adverse event profile and wider array of available drugs.
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Problems Associated with the Rising Costs of Naloxone and Plausible Solutions
December 15th 2016A recent New England Journal of Medicine publication addressed the rising costs of naloxone, but failed to address many of the hidden issue that are buried within routine pharmacy practice. Here we unveil some of the less obvious reasons and offer software solutions to help pharmacists safe lives.
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AARP Brand Drug Pricing Report Reinforces Need for More Generic Competition
December 15th 2016A new AARP study showed that branded pharmaceutical prices soared by 15.5% in the past year and notes that the average annual cost for one brand name drug used on a chronic basis now exceeds $5,800
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ShopRite and Colgate-Palmolive Donate Starlight Fun Center to Children's Hospital
December 14th 2016Starlight Children’s Foundation has unveiled a new state-of-the-art Starlight Fun Center mobile entertainment unit that will brighten the lives of children who are admitted to the pediatric emergency room at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.
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