The concept of the retail clinic—already spreading from chain drug stores to grocery stores and workplaces—is taking off again and has airports nationwide as its next destination. The opening of such a clinic at the Philadelphia airport marks the second […]

The recent re-opening of the Tylenol poisonings case from the 1980s (generated, in part, by recent press coverage of an alleged suspect) and the daily additions to the list of peanut product recalls are high-profile reminders of the importance of […]

As reported by MSNBC, Jared Wheat, president of Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals (Norcross, GA) accepted a plea bargain in federal court for illegally selling the drugs, and will serve a 50-month sentence. The company and other individual defendants will forfeit $3 million […]

Business Suite 7.0, emphasizes a modular, flexible approach to enterprise computing; according to Leo Apotheker, co-CEO of the Walldorf, Germany firm. “The days of big-bang implementations of enterprise applications are past.” Business Suite 7.0 is the first time that SAP […]

 In what may be Canada’s largest experiment yet on academic detailing—the practice of healthcare professionals unaffiliated with drug companies updating doctors on available treatments—the Ontario Ministry of Health has issued a request for proposals to provide a province-wide pilot program. […]

A program that has “many separate moving parts,” according to Dr Tim Cunnif, VP of global regulatory affairs and quality assurance, is shaping up as Ovation Pharmaceuticals gets ready for final FDA approval of Sabril (vigabatrin) for two types of […]

There’s little surprise in the fact that U.S. consumers are more comfortable with generic medications, since the healthcare establishment has been promoting them aggressively for years. Harris Interactive (Rochester, NY) ran a survey on this topic in 2006, and has […]

Few technologies could be more germane to the anticipated transformation of pharmaceutical business models than personalized medicine: The nimble development of treatments based on molecular analysis of a patient all but turns on its head the cumbersome traditional model of […]

In a few short weeks, sales reps at JHP Pharmaceuticals LLC will be pushing past any preconceived Big Brother notions while being trained on a customer relationship management system. The implementation is part of the company’s effort to capture sales-related data […]

Building on its mid-2008 acquisitions of Whole Health Management and I-Trax, and blending in its retail-pharmacy network of 6,600 stores and in-store clinics, Walgreens (Deerfield, IL) is now offering a program called “Complete Care and Well-Being” to employer health plans. […]