24 Hour Pharmacy Pharmacist News
- West Side Neighborhood Watch Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:45AMWEST AKRON: Burglaries occurred at the following locations: a business in the first block of Sand Run Road Aug. 9-12; the 900 block of Storer Avenue Aug. 14; the 100 block of Schocalog Road Aug. 14-15; the 1300 block of Orrin Street Aug. 15; the 100 block of Durward Road Aug. 15; the 100 block of Avondale Drive Aug. 17; the 1600 block of Kingsley Avenue Aug. 17-18; the 800 block of Lawton Street ...
- Clemson loses culinary giant Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 11:04AMOwner of Pixie and Bill's and Calhoun Corners dies
- New Laws Effective January 1, 2010 Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 12:18AMThe following legislation will take effect beginning Jan. 1, 2010.
- Bulletin Board Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 6:23AMTRICEPS (Tri-Cities Early Psychosis Support) meets from 7 to 9 p.m. in the ParkLane Room of Eagle Ridge Hospital. TRICEPS is a non-profit support group providing education and support to parents, spouses and adult siblings whose family member has recently been diagnosed with psychosis.
- Pharmacies to carry burden of cuts Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 9:31AMFor the past week I have come to work disheartened, knowing that the level of care I expect from myself and the level of care that has come to be expected from my patients will simply be impossible to provide if the government cuts pharmacy funding.[...]
- Cohen: Going 'outside the pill' Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 4:03PMDear Pharmacist: I just became a pharmacist and started readingyour syndicated column. Your emphasis is usually centered aroundthe benefits of vitamins, minerals or alternative treatments, ascompared to prescription medications. I take offense sometimesbecause I think you should recommend more of our gold-standardpharmaceuticals which are FDA approved, unlike nutritionalsupplements. For example ...
- Princeville woman and her family battle Lyme disease Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 11:15PMJoy Adams spends her days looking out the window at her former life ... grandchildren's toys on the deck, race cars and dirt bikes stored in a huge garage/machine shop, fields and woods she hiked with her dogs and cameras. Even her bird feeders once just outside the window had to be moved farther away from her.
- Britain may see 24-hour medicine vending machines Tuesday, June 22, 2010 @ 3:00AMBritain is mulling the introduction of day and night medicine vending machines initially in hospitals and on the high streets thereafter, worrying pharmacists who feel they could be out of business.
- Britain may see 24-hour medicine vending machines Tuesday, June 22, 2010 @ 1:53AMBy Venkata Vemuri, London, June 22 : Britain is mulling the introduction of day and night medicine vending machines initially in hospitals and on the high streets thereafter, worrying pharmacists who feel they could be out of business.
- PharmaTrust To Demonstrate The HealthCare Everywhere MedCentre at the Goldman Sachs 31st Annual Healthcare Conference ... Monday, June 14, 2010 @ 8:39AMTORONTO----PharmaTrust™ has been invited to participate in the Private Company forum of the Goldman Sachs 31st Annual Healthcare Conference in Los Angeles, June 14th to 17th. The company will demonstrate its revolutionary Healthcare…Everywhere MedCenter which will connect conference ‘patients’ in Los Angeles to PharmaTrust™ pharmacists in Toronto.
- Arcadia Resources Announces Fiscal 2010 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 10:21AMINDIANAPOLIS, June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arcadia Resources, Inc.
- Arcadia Resources Announces Fiscal 2010 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 7:20AMread more
- Arcadia Resources Announces Fiscal 2010 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 7:00AMArcadia Resources, Inc. , a leading provider of innovative consumer health care services under the Arcadia HealthCare brand, today announced fourth quarter revenues of $25.5 million and a net loss of $19.2 million, or $0.11 per share, which compares to revenue of $25.9 million and a net loss of $36.7 million, or $0.27 per share for the same period in the fiscal 2009. Â For the fiscal year ended ...
- Xifaxan(R) (rifaximin) 550 Mg Tablets Now Available In U.S. Pharmacies Wednesday, May 26, 2010 @ 5:31AMSalix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. (NASDAQ:SLXP) today announced the availability of Xifaxan® (rifaximin) 550 mg tablets (http://www.Xifaxan550.com) for the reduction in risk of overt hepatic encephalopathy (HE) recurrence in patients 18 years of age or older. Those HE patients may now fill their Xifaxan 550 mg prescriptions in U.S. pharmacies and should speak with their ...
- Former Banker Named Mortgage Express’ No. 1 Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 12:02AM24 May 2010 : For the third year in a row banker-turned-broker Sue Clydesdale has been named the Top Broker of the Year by Mortgage Express, a nationwide brokerage which is part of the Harcourts group.
- Vending drug machine now fills prescriptions on the spot at clinic Tuesday, May 11, 2010 @ 2:17AMA Smyrna urgent-care clinic has a new vending machine in its waiting room, but don't expect to get a bag of chips or can of soda. This machine is for acute-care prescription medications - antibiotics, inhalers and other short-term medicines - for sick patients who don't want to wait in line at a pharmacy.
- New Laws Effective January 1, 2010 Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 8:04PMThe following legislation will take effect beginning Jan. 1, 2010.
- Cuts not fair to patients, says local pharmacist — Letter Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 9:14AMThe McGuinty government's announcement of massive funding cuts to community pharmacies will seriously hurt front-line health care in Sault Ste. Marie. My pharmacy delivers unique and vital health care services people here rely on.[...]
- The trials and triumphs of fatherhood, take two Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 12:27AMExperts say older men are much more likely to be desirable partners, which makes this father's day, writes Tom Hyland.
- Staffordshire Woman Sentenced For Selling Counterfeit Medicines Wednesday, March 31, 2010 @ 8:21AMToday, a 51-year-old woman was sentenced to eight months in prison at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court for the possession of controlled drugs with the intent to supply, and for the possession of medicines with the intent to place them on the market without a licence. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) began their investigation in January 2008 into a website called ...
- Prescription Drug Abuse Is A Growing Concern Wednesday, March 31, 2010 @ 6:21AMThe nation's emergency physicians are issuing a strong warning to parents about the dangers of prescription drug abuse, which are now the second most abused drugs, after marijuana. Nearly three-quarters of a million people (741,425) needed emergency care in 2006 because of prescription drug abuse. "Often when you hear that someone has overdosed on drugs you think of illegal substances, such as ...
- More high school students graduating, say local board officials Wednesday, March 24, 2010 @ 8:12AMThe province says its data shows more Ontario high-school students are graduating, but local school boards say they can offer only anecdotal evidence that the same thing is happening here.[...]
- Shopper runs off bandit Wednesday, March 24, 2010 @ 8:12AMA shopper told a robber to leave a downtown convenience store Tuesday. So he did. A male, armed with a broken glass bottle, demanded cash from a clerk at Mac's on Gore Street at about 3:10 a.m. A man then entered the store and told the bandit "to leave," said Sgt.[...]
- Alternative Energy Capital has no Earth Hour plans Wednesday, March 24, 2010 @ 8:11AMSault Ste. Marie may call itself the Alternative Energy Capital of North America, but there are no known planned activities to celebrate Earth Hour in the city on Saturday. Earth Hour 2010 is a worldwide movement that asks people to turn off their lights on Saturday from 8:30 to 9:30 p.[...]
- Burned tray smokes up home Wednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 8:00AMA plastic tray cooked up trouble at a west-end home Tuesday night. The tray was left inside a stove at a residence in the 300 block of Patrick Street. It caught fire when the oven was turned on shortly after 7 p.[...]
- What needs to be in every medicine cabinet Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 9:33PMA few weeks ago, it seemed a 24-hour pharmacy would always be a quick car ride away, but the record snowfalls remind us of that old Boy Scout saw: Be prepared. As the snow melts, clean out expired medicine, toss the extra bottles of lotion you never use and stock up on supplies that cover common ...
- Bill would bump State Troopers to 800 Sunday, February 7, 2010 @ 4:54AMAcross the entire State of West Virginia, there are only four State Trooper detachments that have solid 24-hour law enforcement coverage.And of the total 60 detachments covering the state’s 55 counties, there are 33 that have less than five officers.
- Baxa Corporation to Sponsor Customer-Requested DoseEdge(TM) Product Demonstrations Following Successful ASHP Midyear ... Friday, February 5, 2010 @ 11:15AMENGLEWOOD, Colo., Feb.
- Baxa Corporation to Sponsor Customer-Requested DoseEdge Product Demonstrations Following Successful ASHP Midyear ... Friday, February 5, 2010 @ 10:53AMBaxa Corporation announces dates for a nine-city road show tour featuring the DoseEdge Pharmacy Workflow Manager. A related March Webinar is scheduled for customers who are unable to attend the live product demonstration programs.
- Baxa Corporation to Sponsor Customer-Requested DoseEdge(TM) Product Demonstrations Following Successful ASHP Midyear ... Friday, February 5, 2010 @ 8:00AMBaxa Corporation â a leading developer of medical device technology for the safe handling, preparation, packaging and administration of fluid medications â announces a new road show program featuring their leading-edge dose management software, DoseEdge. Â Following Baxa Corporation's highly regarded presentation at the 2009 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting ...
- Against the advice of his lawyer, man pleads guilty to his part in painkiller heist Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 7:29AMLINDA RICHARDSON The Sault Star A young man who "unwittingly'' became the wheelman in a pharmacy heist pleaded guilty Wednesday to robbery — against his lawyer's advice. Mark Strain was convicted of the offence for his role in the Aug.[...]
- Briefly: Jan. 20 Wednesday, January 20, 2010 @ 9:29AMRead about what's happening in and around Plymouth.
- Belief in the treatment is strong medicine Tuesday, January 19, 2010 @ 2:15PMDear Pharmacist: My brother was in a research study andeventually he found out that he was in the placebo group, but heinsists his treatment helped anyway. I think it's all in his mind,don't you?
- Briefly: Jan. 16 Saturday, January 16, 2010 @ 9:23AMRead about what's happening in and around Plymouth.
- Campaign aims to cut trips to GP and A&E Monday, December 14, 2009 @ 2:12AMOVERSTRETCHED doctors in Doncaster have advised people to only visit their GP or go to A&E over the busy Christmas period if it is absolutely necessary. (13/12/2009 21:45:32)
- Tim Woodward: Another landmark falls to hard times Saturday, December 12, 2009 @ 11:42PMTim Woodward writes about another local institution falling to hard times. Hill's Gift's and Cards will close in January.
- Pharmacy techs on the fast track Monday, December 7, 2009 @ 6:12AMMSU Great Falls College of Technology is launching a new distance learning program in January to train students in as little as one semester to work as pharmacy technicians.
- Letters to the editor Sunday, December 6, 2009 @ 2:04PMI just read the two articles about a local pharmacy, Medical Arts, losing a nursing home contract to an outside competitor. Something about how this went down makes me hold my nose.[...]
- Readers' Letters - November 26 2009 Thursday, November 26, 2009 @ 3:20AMReaders' letters from the November 26 issue of the Observer. I was interested to read the article last week entitled 'Warm welcome for housing scheme'. Funny, it appears to be a warm welcome by a host of individuals who do not live in Sidlesham.
- Over 7 Million UK Adults May Be Gambling Their Lives With Fake Medicine, UK Tuesday, November 3, 2009 @ 9:16AMMore than one in seven British adults surveyed (15%)1 admitted to bypassing the healthcare system to get hold of prescription only medicine without a prescription, a practice which 78% of GPs surveyed say is putting people's health and potentially lives at risk3, as some of the medicines obtained in this way may be counterfeit.
- Pharmacist finds a competitive niche Thursday, October 29, 2009 @ 5:39AMA couple of years ago, Diane Silverman, a pharmacist and partner at the Medicine Shoppe in Penn Hills, found she was competing with big-box retailers that had their own pharmacies.
- Matriarch, businesswoman Rose Mehfoud Oley dies Monday, October 26, 2009 @ 11:20PMRose “Reba” Mehfoud Oley would open up her house every Thanksgiving and Christmas. “We’d have 60 to 70 people in the house—people I’d never seen before,“ recalled Mark A. Oley, the youngest of her seven children. “She would send us to go pick these people up. Her kindness reached beyond the city limits.“ She would invite the homeless, people without their families for the holidays, old friends ...
- 'Pill mills' targeted in Florida legislature Friday, October 23, 2009 @ 11:05PMAbuses of prescription painkillers is a hard pill for state lawmakers to swallow. So-called "pill mills" have transformed much of Florida into "the painkiller capital of the United States, the notorious home to a cottage industry of storefront pain clinics selling alarming numbers of narcotics and feeding a brazen black market," state Rep. John Legg said in a press release.
- New docs, different priorities Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 4:40PMEditor’s note: This is the second of three stories on rural health care. “Old school” doctors are taken aback by the perception that today’s family physicians are overworked, underpaid and misunderstood.
- Halifax Regional Medical Center Selects Micromedex Solutions from Thomson Reuters for Clinical Decision Support Tuesday, October 20, 2009 @ 9:44AMANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Halifax Regional Medical Center has signed a multi-year agreement to use Thomson Reuters Micromedex(®) solutions as its source for evidence-based clinical reference information.
- Senior Scene Saturday, October 10, 2009 @ 11:05PMAll senior centers and council on again offices will be closed Monday to observe Columbus Day.
- Enid Transit offering free rides for vets to VA clinic during October Thursday, October 8, 2009 @ 10:58PMEnid Transit announced a new promotion for veterans during the month of October. Kim Watkins, director of Enid Transit, said veterans can ride free to and from the new Veterans Affairs clinic, 915 E. Garriott, Suite G.
- Hospice Circle of Love gearing up for its annual fall book sale Thursday, October 8, 2009 @ 10:58PMHospice Circle of Love volunteers are busy preparing for the non-profit organization’s fall book sale. The event will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 23 and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 24. The sale will be held in the north building at the Hospice Circle of Love office, 314 S. 3rd.
- Embezzlement by Alva woman could lead to 10 years in prison Thursday, October 8, 2009 @ 10:57PMAn Alva woman is facing 24 federal counts of theft/embezzlement after being accused of diverting more than $21,000 from two doctors offices she worked at for her personal use.
- Senior Scene Saturday, September 26, 2009 @ 11:07PMA full version of activities appears on our Web site at www.southcoasttoday.com. The list is updated every Sunday. A condensed version of senior center and council on aging activities is published in The Standard-Times every Sunday. Listings for trip...