Patient Compliance

The state of Maryland yesterday launched a new statewide discount drug card program called the Maryland Rx Card to help residents pay for prescription drugs, and named Safeway and Giant Food, LLC the preferred pharmacies for the program.

Albertson’s, LLC plans to upgrade its pharmacy technology with a turnkey enterprise solution that automates various aspects of the grocer’s pharmacy operations.

Low omega-3 (seafood) intake plays a role in about 84,000 deathsa nnually, according to new research supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Of all the ills plaguing the U.S. economy, perhaps no single factor is as responsible for our current malaise as the cost burden of health care, and the attendant results of a poorly functioning health system.

Ten years of Stonyfield Farm’s YoBaby has meant 10 years of happy eating for babies -- and 10 years of happy parents as well. Now, the Londonberry, N.H.-based company has retooled YoBaby recipe slightly, with the addition of vitamin D and zinc to improve upon its already solid makeup.

Pharmacy automation vendor Parata, based in Durham, N.C., said it would use technology from Axeda Corp. to enable retail pharmacy operators to remotely monitor their pharmacy systems.

A new statewide discount prescription drug card program rolled out last week in Oregon to provide discounts on both brand and generic medications -- averaging 30 percent -- and with no restrictions to membership, such as income requirements, age limits. Additionally, there are no applications to fill out.

With the advent of new food safety legislation under debate in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, a new national survey reveals that Americans are more concerned than ever when it comes to choosing what's safe to eat, yet are alarmingly unaware of the long-term side effects of salmonella, one of the most common foodborne illnesses.