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 ...

Corrections departments are responsible for so many burdensome tasks that many of their everyday functions, like administering prescription drugs to inmates, are afterthoughts for the public. However, ...

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 ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. --The talking machine that dispenses pills looks vaguely like a coffeemaker, and it nags 87-year-old Doris Low relentlessly. "Time for your medication," its robotic voice announces ...

Becton, Dickinson and Company BDX, popularly known as BD, recently announced the European launch of its BD Pyxis Pro ...

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 ...

On 7th Street in northwest Washington, D.C., within sight of a children’s playground, stands a vending machine sponsored by a group called “HIPS” and the city’s health department. The vending machine ...

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, ...

An East Texas organization treating drug and alcohol addiction now has a vending machine where people can obtain an ...