News tagged with retail pharmacies


Medications are being discontinued—and the pharmacist may not know

More than 85,000 medications are discontinued each year by physicians, yet while physicians share this information with their patients, it is too often not shared with the pharmacists. This communication gap, identified by ...

Medications created Nov 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US recalls India-made birth control pills

A batch of birth control pills manufactured in India for US distribution has been recalled due to a packaging error that could make the pills ineffective, US health authorities said on Monday.

Medications created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rising dispensation of prescription opioids confirmed

(Medical Xpress) -- An investigative team led by Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Benedikt Fischer has established that starkly increasing prescription of strong opioids (POs) is driving up dispensation of ...

Health created Aug 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0