Government pharmacies to close early
Government pharmacies will be closing at 1200h as from Wednesday, November 26, following a directive issued on Friday by the Union Haddiema Maghqudin.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Examines Challenges Facing Independent Pharmacies
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Monday examined some of the challenges facing independent pharmacies nationwide, such as growing competition from large chain and mail-order pharmacies, decreased reimbursement rates, and increased state and federal regulations.

Courier pharmacies 'harmful'
Patient care is suffering because many medical aids insist their members use courier pharmacies to receive chronic medication, says United SA Pharmacies.

PSA Supports Frontline Role For Pharmacists, Australia
PSA supports the call for pharmacy to play a more prominent role as the first port of call for people seeking assistance for minor ailments. PSA National President Warwick Plunkett said today that pharmacists are uniquely placed to provide primary health care delivery. 'Community Pharmacies are already the first place many people go when the have a minor ailments such as a cough or cold.

Sheriff-Elect Assembles Transition Team
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Orange County is on pace to break yet a another record for homicides in one year, deputies have investigated 137 home invasions so far in 2008, and 34 pharmacies have been held up.

GP dispensing change opposed
Patients oppose plans to reduce the ability of rural GPs in England to provide drugs directly to their patients, a poll suggests.

Eyedrops for cataracts patients 209% more expensive
A box of tablets from Paris costs ?19.83, but to buy it from Maltese pharmacies you pay ?29.63. Similarly, eye drops for persons awaiting cataracts surgery, cost ?7 in Malta, but only ?2.26 in Italy.

Program may cut prescription costs
A group of Metro Council members hopes to help some residents save money on prescription drugs.

Closer-to-home remedies
Last month, the medic units of Gig Harbor?s Fire District 5 made 248 trips across the Narrows to Tacoma-area hospitals carrying patients in need of emergency room services. That?s more than eight trips a day on average.

Whooping cough cases on the rise
An underreported, often misdiagnosed disease that people think affects only young children is drawing concern from national health officials and has recently struck hospital workers, closed schools in the Midwest and kept multiple health departments busy sending out alerts.

CVS, Rite-Aid, state reach multilingual deal
New Yorkers who speak a language other than English now will have an easier time understanding the instructions with their prescription medications.

'A good way of doing triage'
A mortar bowl of controversy is now being ground in Ontario over the possibility pharmacists may soon be allowed to prescribe some of their own medicines for a number of minor ailments.

Police keep a watchful eye
Police use a variety of methods and millions of dollars to combat illegal drug use and legal drug overuse, but it starts with front-line officers like Roger King.

Hidalgo County launches discount prescription card
Hidalgo County has teamed up with local pharmacies to create a discount card that knocks off as much as 35 precent off for prescriptions.

Social & Personal
President in Cyprus President Eddie Fenech Adami with Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwsz, who was private secretary to Pope John Paul II. Dr Fenech Adami also met...

Generics gain popularity as cheaper alternative to brand names
Rising health care costs and the price of prescription drugs can be a hard pill to swallow, literally, but Americans could give themselves a break in their pocketbooks by utilizing a cheaper alternative ? generics.

Bags Of Personal Information Found Outside Doctors' Offices
KIRO 7 Consumer Investigator David Quinlan found dumpsters outside pharmacies and doctor offices filled with patients' personal information.

Rockland people in the news
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rockland County received $8,636.44 for the Judge Joel J. Flick Memorial Scholarship Fund. This donation brings the total of the scholarship to $14,000. The money was raised at the 2008 Andre Thornton Nyack College Fall Golf Classic, which was held in October at the New York Country Club in New Hempstead.

It's time to sign up: Are you sure you have the best plan?
When Rose Ulery first started getting mailings from different insurance companies trying to entice her to use their Medicare Part D, or prescription drug, coverage, she threw them all into a pile.

Cards help residents to defray drug costs
NEWARK -- When Glenda Hampton worked as a loan executive for the United Way campaign a couple of years ago, she found out about the FamilyWize Prescription Drug Discount Card.