pharmacies

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- A federal judge is considering whether Washington state can require pharmacies to stock and sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives....

The NHS should stop funding homeopathy and it should no longer be marketed as a medicine in pharmacies, doctors say.

VIENNA (AP) -- Austria's health ministry says the contraceptive morning-after pill is now available in pharmacies without a prescription....

A new supply of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) for oral suspension is being shipped to wholesalers and pharmacies, which should ease the current shortage, according to the FDA.

Healthy Virginians younger than 50 can begin receiving the nasal mist form of the swine flu vaccine at pharmacies next week, and state officials say they hope to drop all restrictions on it just before Christmas.

Fast-food places have them. Banks and pharmacies do, too. Now hospitals are opening drive-thrus and drive-up tent clinics to screen and treat a swelling tide of swine flu patients....

With children hit hardest by swine flu, many pharmacies have run out of liquid Tamiflu, the antiviral medicine used to keep them out of the hospital.

The CDC and some physicians are warning pharmacies and parents about potentially confusing dosage information distributed with the flu drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu).

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Many non-English speakers will soon be able to read prescription drug instructions in their primary language....

ROCKVILLE, Md. (MedPage Today) -- The Consumer Medication Information handouts that pharmacies provide with each prescription filled are not up to the standards established by a 1996 law, the FDA said.