WHAT IS BEING DONE TO TRY TO FIX THE ISSUE. REPORTER: A REPRESENTATIVE FROM SPARTAN PHARMACY SAYS THEY WERE TRYING TO SCHEDULE MORE PEOPLE TO THEIR VACCINE CLINIC AT BETHEL PARK’S COMMUNITY CENTER ON ...

Prescription drug overdoses killed about 1,000 North Carolina residents in 2011, but doctors and pharmacists are not widely using a state database that tracks patients' history with addictive drugs ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- House members on Monday voted to make Missouri the last state to adopt a prescription drug monitoring program aimed at cutting back at opioid misuse and doctor shopping.

The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have dropped a mandate that any vendor planning to bid on the pharmacy system for the integrated electronic health record use a drug database supplied by ...

A total of 1,446 eligible patients had a first AET prescription order between 2016 and 2021; these orders were routed to 871 unique pharmacies, of which 856 (98.2%) were contracted with the linked EHR ...

A 2009 law authorizing a statewide prescription drug database is "on the way out," says state Sen. Joe Negron. The database has become a political football since Gov. Rick Scott announced last week ...

To gain a better understanding of the pharmacy shortage, researchers from the Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical ...

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A new effort to make Missouri the final state to approve legislation authorizing creation of a government database to track prescription drug purchases won first-round approval ...

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has announced the beginning of provider access to Maryland’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program database. Providers will now have access to their ...