The biggest problems with pharmaceuticals isn’t patents, industry reps, or the fact that advertisement to consumers is allowed; this only happens in the United States. No, the biggest problem with ...

The next time you pick up a prescription from your pharmacy, it might be dispensed from a vending machine. Although automated drug-dispensing systems (ADDS) have been used in various ways by nurses ...

When patients leave the ER at Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia, MN, there aren't a lot of pharmacy options. The closest 24-hour pharmacy is 20 miles away, and many of the patients live in the ...

RxSafe, a provider of automated medication storage and retrieval systems for pharmacies, is offering a new line of prescription packaging machines, known as RxASP, that employ high-frequency (HF) ...

Wrought in metal and wielded by a ninja, one star-shaped device can deliver swift, silent death. Now, researchers have unveiled a star-shaped device designed to deliver health for weeks at a time. A ...

A hospital in the south suburbs is the first in Illinois to offer a 24-hour vending machine for prescription drugs. The service is called InstyMeds and it’s for emergency room patients at MetroSouth ...

NEWTOWN -- Marie Kreiser's father was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and he was forgetting to take his medications, she said. Every week Kreiser, 49, of Newtown, would drive to Yorktown, ...