Heidi Strehl worked as a pharmacy technician at a Rite Aid in the Pittsburgh suburbs for more than 16 years. She loved her customers, enjoyed her job and thought of her co-workers as family. But this ...

Editor’s note: This story is based on discussions at Abarca Forward, a conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, hosted by Abarca Health, a pharmacy benefit manager. MedCity News was invited to host and ...

Health systems rethinking role of in-house pharmacy to improve patient engagement and retain revenue from specialty and refill prescriptions.

When the one pharmacy in town closed in Antwerp, a small community of about 1,600 in northwest Ohio, in September, it affected Candace Pidgeon in two ways. The pharmacy tech lost her job at the ...

PICKERINGTON, Ohio — For years, Sharon Kitchen and her husband, Mike, went to the same pharmacy just 2 miles from their house in this suburb of Columbus. But last June, their pharmacist, Nate Hux, ...

Retail pharmacy chains such as Walgreens and CVS have pivoted from years of endless store expansions to shuttering hundreds of locations across the U.S. to shore up profits. Among the biggest problems ...

The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country. Credit...Jens Mortensen for The New York Times ...

Big changes are coming to the nation’s 60,000 pharmacies, with Amazon talking about getting into the prescription drug business and the nation’s largest chain, CVS, teaming up with health insurer ...

Pharmacy technicians are medical professionals who work with pharmacists to help patients and make sure they get the best care. They often are the people who find, package, and label prescribed ...