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New Market Research Report "2020 Foresight Report: Mobile Point of Sale Technology Indsutry" Has Been Added In MarketResearchReports.Biz's Reports Database. Buy The Copy of This Report Visit - http://www.marketresearchreports.biz/analysis-details/2020-foresight-report-mobile-point-of-sale-technology Albany, NY (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 Synopsis The report provides market analysis, information and insights into mobile point of sale technology (MPOS) The report provides a global...

Tax Relief Will Benefit California Pet Owners SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- They have the best intentions, keeping their pets healthy and saving money. Sounds like a good thing to do, right? Not when it involves buying pet medications from unregulated outlets that may deliver incorrect, outdated, or dangerous medications. That's why Senator Cathleen Galgiani (D-Stockton) has authored Senate Bill 688 to help animal owners afford reliable animal prescriptions and...

Printable discount cards from MedicationDiscountCard.com for Focalin Margate City, NJ (PRWEB) May 06, 2013 It is estimated that over seven million children in the United States lack any type of medical insurance. Even if these children are able to see a doctor, filling expensive prescriptions month after month can be crippling to families on a budget. This often leads to skipping doses, or even forgoing medication altogether. Upon hearing this, MedicationDiscountCard.com set out to...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Men who feel a tinge of embarrassment when visiting their local pharmacist to pick up a bottle of those Little Blue Pills will soon be able to get their prescription filled in the same way they buy almost everything else: online. Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, announced today that they’ll soon begin selling their famous erectile dysfunction (ED) drug on their website. This move is a first for the drug industry which has always...

For pharmacy benefit manager Prime Therapeutics’ members, prescription drug costs increased by 2.1 percent in 2012, driven by a 19.1 percent increase in specialty drug costs and offset by a 0.9 percent drop in traditional drug costs. Prime’s 2012 Drug Trend Insights revealed a 0.7 percent climb in use of prescription drugs and a 6.4 percent increase in drug costs contributed to the changes in spending, while members who switched to generic drugs helped pull down the spend by 4.6...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved on Tuesday the over-the-counter sale of morning-after pills for those 15 years of age and older, and will make the pills available on store shelves, rather than being sold from a pharmacy. Until now, emergency contraception has been available by prescription only to those under the age of 17, and was only sold from behind pharmacy counters. The FDA ruling, which takes effect...

Cinacalcet, a drug commonly given to patients with end stage kidney disease to help keep phosphorus and parathyroid blood levels within a target range and has few patient level clinical benefits and several adverse effects, suggesting that it should no longer be routinely prescribed, according to a study by international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine. These findings are important as cinacalcet has become the largest single drug cost for patients on dialysis in the US,...

MISSISSAUGA, ON, April 30, 2013 /CNW/ - Amgen, a biotechnology company developing both innovative biologic and biosimilar medicines, welcomes a new report from the European Commission detailing Europe's strong regulatory and commercial foundation for biosimilars in the healthcare marketplace. The report shows that biosimilars are helping improve competition and thus may be increasing access to biologic medicines for patients. The science-led regulatory framework in the European...

CVS Caremark is a Gold sponsor of The Partnership at Drugfree.org's Medicine Abuse Project, whose new national study shows teen misuse and abuse of Rx medication is up 33 percent since 2008 WOONSOCKET, R.I., April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With National Drug Take Back Day scheduled for Saturday, April 27 and in light of a new national study revealing that one in four teenagers has misused or abused a prescription medication at least once, CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) is reminding...

FRISCO, Texas, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Assured Pharmacy (APHY: OTC Markets), a leading specialty pharmacy group providing prescription medications to sufferers of chronic pain, released its 2013 shareholder letter. Dear Shareholders, Every day, prescription pain medications play a role in improving quality of life for the 75 million people who suffer from chronic pain in the US. With the population aging, cancer incidence increasing and the number of surgeries performed...