When a pharmacy sells the heartburn drug Zantac, each pill costs about 35 cents. But doctors dispensing it to patients in their offices have charged nearly 10 times that price, or $3.25 a pill. The ...

The Federal Trade Commission published a second interim staff report this week on the prescription drug middleman industry, which focuses on pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) influence over specialty ...

Prescription medications are a vital tool for managing our health, but when they go unused, they become a growing problem. Here in South Dakota, wasted medications pose a double threat: to public ...

Every day, roughly 130 people die in the United States from misuse of and addiction to opioids, including both prescription pain relievers, as well as drugs like heroin and fentanyl. Several studies ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The dispensing of prescription drugs to children declined by one-quarter during the last 9 months of 2020 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A contact lens that gradually dispenses a steady stream of medication to the eye could ease treatment for glaucoma and other eye ailments if it advances through animal and ...

On 7th Street in northwest Washington, D.C., within sight of a children’s playground, stands a vending machine sponsored by a group called “HIPS” and the city’s health department. The vending machine ...

MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — A bill approved by the Alabama Senate sets a $10 drug dispensing fee for pharmacists while also seeking to regulate the companies that administer prescription drug plans ...

Jim Schwartz, RPh, corporate pharmacy manager, Texas Oncology, discussed pharmacy challenges regarding equitable care and distribution of specialty drugs in the community oncology setting. At the ...