Program helps patients improve medication adherence

February 08, 2016 The Medicine Shoppe has unveiled a program that targets poor medication adherence, which Prescriptions for a Healthy American says is responsible for at least 125,000 U.S. deaths annually. The initiative helps patients with multiple prescriptions...

Drug industry launches ad campaign aimed at lawmakers

February 08, 2016 The pharmaceutical industry is ramping up a new advertising campaign designed to improve its reputation with federal lawmakers as it lobbies against any effort to rein in prescription costs. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America...

Drug industry launches ad campaign aimed at lawmakers

February 08, 2016 The pharmaceutical industry is ramping up a new advertising campaign designed to improve its reputation with federal lawmakers as it lobbies against any effort to rein in prescription costs. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America...

Missouri Republican proposes birth control from pharmacists

February 08, 2016 Rep. Sheila Solon (R-Blue Springs) of the Missouri legislature told a House committee Wednesday decades of use have shown oral contraception is safe and critical for many people and pharmacists should be able to prescribe the drugs after undergoing...

EU drug agency sets up Zika task force to speed vaccine work

February 08, 2016 The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it had established an expert task force on Zika to advise companies working on vaccines and medicines against the virus, which is suspected of causing a spike in birth defects in Brazil. Currently...