Electronic data from automated drug dispensing carts could help identify drug diversion by anesthesia care providers, according to a study published in the July 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

August 21, 2012 — Physicians who dispense pain medications and other commonly used drugs to workers' compensation (WC) patients charge up to 3 times more than pharmacies in some states, according to a ...

Retail pharmacy chain Rite Aid will pay $177,000 to resolve allegations that it violated Massachusetts law by accepting cash payments from Medicaid recipients for controlled substances instead of ...

New York hospitals are increasingly automating pharmacy functions to free up staff and improve the accuracy and safety of dispensing medicine. They have embraced robots to store, catalog and fill ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Under a new law regulating PBMs, or pharmacy benefit managers, you could be paying an extra $10 for your prescriptions. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, among others, ...

Sen. Linda Chesterfield, D-Little Rock, speaks during a legislative meeting on Oct. 28, 2024. (Mary Hennigan/Arkansas Advocate) In a reversal, Arkansas legislators in a split vote Friday approved a ...

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 ...

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 ...

As with randomization, if allocation to the study drug is not carried out in accordance with the protocol, the entire study ...