Patient Compliance

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - ACNielsen U.S. has announced the launch of the Homescan RX/OTC Consumer Panel, a new research service that measures consumer purchases and use of prescription and over-the-counter medicines.

DEERFIELD, Ill. - Walgreen Co. announced today its pharmacy patients can now go to any of its stores and request their medicine label instructions to be printed in Spanish, Chinese, French, Polish, Portuguese, Russian or Vietnamese.

ATLANTA - Food poisoning from bacteria like E. coli and salmonella has dropped dramatically in the United States in just six years, the government said Thursday.

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Doctors abandon their prescription pads for Internet scripts at Giant Food and Pharmacy.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A lawsuit filed by an Illinois woman alleging that a Wal-Mart pharmacist failed to warn her of the side effects that could be caused by a medication can proceed to trial, the Associated Press reports.

LONDON - Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket chain, said Friday it will give teen-agers the morning-after contraceptive pill for free as part of a national effort to reduce the number of teen pregnancies, The Associated Press reports.

NEW YORK - A recent study conducted by Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York found that just 7 percent of parents of allergic children could correctly spot milk as an ingredient in foods found in grocery stores across the nation, Reuters reports.

SCHOFIELD, Wis. - A Quality Foods IGA in Schofield, Wis., has agreed to pay $90,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a teenager who was fired when the manager found out she has HIV, The Associated Press reports.