State allows pharmacies to offer more vaccines - Boston Globe

Get ready to see more advertisements in Massachusetts pharmacies for a variety of vaccines that consumers will now be able to receive in the stores. A policy adopted by state health regulators grants pharmacists the authority to administer 10 ...

Canada Drugs Online Provides Cost-Cutting Strategies and Lower Prices on Branded Diabetes Drugs - YAHOO!

Canada Drugs Online is responding to big box pharmacies’ recent pricing changes by offering their branded diabetes medications for significantly lower prices than could be found at the usually more affordable chain pharmacies. Diabetics can now buy ...

BioScrip Completes Sale of Community Pharmacies and Centralized Specialty and Mail Service Pharmacy to Walgreens - Yahoo Finance

BioScrip, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOS - News) (the “Company”) today announced that it has closed the sale of certain assets of its community specialty pharmacies and centralized specialty and mail service pharmacy businesses (the “Transferred ...

Pharmacies take hit as Ontario cuts generic drug payments again - Globe and Mail

Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. SC-T has been hit with yet another round of Ontario cuts in generic prescription drug prices while still grappling with earlier profit-pinching drug reforms. In an unexpected move, the Ontario government said late Friday that it is ...

FDA approves 7 companies to sell generic Plavix in pharmacies immediately - CBS News

(CBS/AP) The popular blood thinner Plavix is going generic, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday, giving lower cost options for the people who take the blood thinner to reduce their risk for stroke and heart attack. The patent for ...

90-Day Fills Simplified with Kirby Lester’s KL30 Pharmacy Dispensing & Verification System - PRWeb

More Kirby Lester counters are used to dispense prescriptions in retail, mail order, hospital and long-term care pharmacies and manufacturing facilities than all other automated dispensing systems combined; over 40,000 pharmacies worldwide rely on Kirby ...

Cohasset stores with pharmacies can still sell cigarettes - Patriot Ledger

Cohasset’s three stores with pharmacies – CVS, Walgreens and Stop & Shop – can continue selling cigarettes and other tobacco products, voters decided Monday night. In a continuation of the May 12 town meeting, voters rejected a proposal by Cohasset ...

Pharmacies can now give more shots - Boston Herald

BOSTON -- Massachusetts residents can now get more than just flu shots at the neighborhood pharmacy. A new policy adopted by state health regulators gives pharmacists the authority to administer 10 additional adult vaccines. They are for measles ...

Massachusetts allows 10 new vaccines to be given at pharmacies - Examiner

Massachusetts residents can now get more than their flu shots at their local pharmacies. As reported in the Boston Globe, a newly instituted policy by the state Department of Public Health gives pharmacists the authority to administer other vaccines in ...

Pharmacies offer shingles vaccine, but few get the shot - Eagle-Tribune

Anyone who had chicken pox as a child is at risk of developing shingles, a painful skin rash that can lead to permanent nerve damage and life-long pain. But there's hope: A shingles vaccine became available for the first time at New Hampshire pharmacies in ...