iPharmacy

iPharmacy is an iPhone app that finds the nearest Pharmacy based on your location.

  A Prescription for Pain at the American Drugstore Chain

A surge in online drug sales could pose a threat to CVS, Walgreens and Walmart

  CVS, Walgreens Look to the Chronically Ill for a Pharmacy Cure

The chains are hoping to reverse their sagging fortunes by turning drugstores into go-to treatment centers

  The Pharmacy of the Future Is Ready For Your Bathroom Counter

PillPack is trying to solve the problem of drug adherence by simplifying your medicine cabinet. Medication arrives in the mail presorted into clear plastic packets, each marked in a large font with vital information: day, time, pills inside, dosages.

 Drugstore Chains Turn To CBD Sales Amid Prescription Reimbursement Pressures

Whether CBD products actually provide a benefit to consumers and patients is still an open question, according to health experts. “It is a kind of a new snake oil in the sense that there are a lot of claims and not so much evidence,” Dustin Lee, an assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University told the New York Times in a February story. The retail drugstore chains say they are closely monitoring the safety and effectiveness of such products and have carefully vetted the CBD manufacturers.

 Europe’s Pharmacies, Long Protected, Face Shake-Up

Belgian entrepreneur is winning over customers, and authorities, by challenging traditional outlets for personal-care products.

 How Amazon Made Pharmacies Ill

Retail giant’s purchase of online pharmacy PillPack means big trouble for drug supply chain stocks.

 How Your Pharmacist Can Make You Healthier

Take these four steps to reap the benefits

 Making more drugs available ‘over the counter’ would be a win for the public and the health care system

Trained pharmacists in New Zealand have been supplying certain medicines that require a prescription in Australia over the counter for a number of years, while Australia is falling behind. Examples include trimethoprim, an antibiotic for urinary tract infections, sildenafil (Viagra®) for erectile dysfunction, triptans for migraines, and the contraceptive pill.

 Pharmacies Are Awful—But These Startups Could Fix Them

SO, YOU NEED to pick up a prescription. During lunch or after work you'll go to the nearest pharmacy, where you'll stand in line at a counter. The pharmacist will ask you to wait 20 minutes, so you'll contemplate a new shampoo or flip through magazines. Maybe you'll leave with your pills, but maybe the pharmacy won't have your meds in stock. Or: Maybe you'll be able to use an app, or a slick chat interface, or pill bottles with sensors.

 The Growing Trend Of Pharmacy Automation

Pharmacy automation is not a new development — many pharmacies have integrated some degree of automation since the 1960s. But increased artificial intelligence and machine learning facilities, combined with the lower cost of automated systems, have put automation within reach for even smaller pharmacies.

 The long, long history of long, long CVS receipts

CVS is a drugstore much like other drugstores, with one important difference: The receipts are very long.

 The Unsung Role of the Pharmacist in Patient Health

Are people relying too much on the traditional doctor/patient interaction?

Could Pharmacists Help Fix Health Care?

Nevertheless, the possible rise of pharmacists in American health care, resulting from the CVS-Aetna merger, could ultimately help alleviate primary care shortages across much of our country and continue to move us toward a system that prioritizes team-based maintenance over individual heroics.

Amazon just made an eye-popping play to disrupt drug stores

Amazon buys Pillpack, another major health care move for Jeff Bezos’s company.

Amazon’s Push Into Pharmacy Business Is Full of Promise and Pitfalls

Filling a prescription online poses challenges, in part because the patient doesn’t pay directly for drugs.

CVS Will Offer Next-Day Delivery of Prescription Drugs

Amazon’s possible expansion into prescription drugs has set the pharmacy industry on edge in recent months, igniting fears that the online behemoth will upend the existing business in much the same way that it has disrupted other consumer markets, from books to household supplies to groceries.

Discount chemists are cheapening the quality of pharmacy along with the price

Every day, more discount pharmacy stores and chains are opening and assaulting health-care consumers with the “we are cheaper” message. But is price the best way to achieve positive health-care outcomes?

Health Check: what should you do with your unused medicine?

All health professionals, not just pharmacists, can remind people to return their unwanted medicines so they can be disposed of safely. We all have a role to play to minimise the risks associated with unwanted medicines.

Hospitals Address a Drug Problem

Hospitals have a drug problem. And they're looking to technology to solve it. The problem is the way medications are being handled—and mishandled—by the hospital pharmacies and out on the wards. Inventory management is inefficient, drugs are too often misplaced, and narcotic medications are prone to theft.

In These States, Pharmacists Can Refuse to Fill Your Prescription for Religious Beliefs

Arizona is one of six states that explicitly give pharmacists permission to refuse to fill patients’ prescriptions, should those prescriptions be at odds with their own moral or religious beliefs.

Just Think: What Amazon Could Do to the Pharmacy Business

Amazon is considering a move into the pharmacy business, the Journal reported last weekend. Just imagine the special cross-marketing touch the retail giant could bring to the splintered industry if it moves into the health-care field in a big way.

Shop like a pharmacist: don't buy Advil

If you're looking to save a few dollars — who isn't, really? — here is some fail-safe advice: stop buying Advil. Stop buying Tylenol, Aleve, Motrin or any other brand-name painkiller while you're at it. This isn't to say you shouldn't buy any painkillers at all — just that you should pick up the generic version...

The Pay Gap Prescription

Your local pharmacy is closing the wage divide between men and women.

What the CVS-Aetna deal means for the future of health care

“It does highlight that pharmacy benefit management is taking on a more significant role in a world that, even 10 years ago, was completely dominated by major medical health insurance,” said Mark Merritt, president of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the lobbying organization for PBMs.

Why Community Pharmacies Are Not Susceptible To An Amazon Takeover

Many people are now predicting that brick-and-mortar pharmacies will go the way of the dodo as more and more Americans manage their prescriptions online and Amazon continues to eye the prescription drug and pharmaceuticals market. Chain pharmacies may pass, but, like indie bookstores, community pharmacies will stand. Here’s why...