Painkillers or your life! Apparently, this was the demand of a robbery suspect arrested after trying to hold up a CVS pharmacy Wednesday evening in the city of Santa Ana, California. The CVS robbery suspect walked into the pharmacy and told a pharmacy employee that he had a gun and demanded the powerful painkiller OxyContin.

Optimism on U.S. economy is further rising with the stunning Walgreens pharmacy sales just for April 2009. The same store location Walgreens sales jumped 11.1 percent in April 2009 compared to the same month last year. Are we moving now upward?

Franck's Pharmacy in Ocala, Fla., admitted on Thursday that it was responsible for the deaths of 21 Venezuelan polo ponies by incorrectly preparing medication for the animals.

This week, the UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy will present the Award for Clinical Service to University of Chicago professor, Mark Ratain, M.D. His research has influenced the FDA prescribing recommendations for a variety of anticancer agents commonly used for colorectal, breast and lung cancers.

IRI Separation Technologies (TSX.V:IRI) is the manufacturer of a remarkable new dietary supplement that enhances the human body’s natural immune system through direct supplementation of actual antibodies . The product will be available in the United States and Canada under the brand name “Muno Boost” and will be available as an over-the-counter dietary supplement in pharmacies and through direct marketing.

I'm knee deep in my annual survey of pharmacy management in workers' comp, and if I look at one more column of data I'm going to need a few class 2's myself.

In an address to the Council of Teaching Hospitals in New Orleans, Wal-Mart's senior vice president and president of health and wellness, Dr. John Agwunobi will confirm a major milestone for the company's $4 prescription program. Since its launch in September 2006, the program walmart.com/pharmacy has now saved Americans more than $1 billion ($1,032,573,012.61 as of March 10, 2008).

Sweden’s pharmacy monopoly has all but given up on being paid the US$ 46.7 million it’s owed by customers who have charged their medications.

A device designed to eliminate mistakes made while mixing compounds at a hospital pharmacy was 100 percent accurate in identifying the proper formulations of seven intravenous drugs.

The Dutch Health Ministry said that it plans to extend its experimental medical marijuana program for five years.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have patented a synthetic version of the drug heparin, called Recomparin, that is less complex chemically and should be easier to produce than previous forms.

Agencies worldwide are cracking down on counterfeit pharmaceuticals, and much of the focus has been on China, where an official was recently executed for approving fake medicines.