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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A contact lens that gradually dispenses a steady stream of medication to the eye could ease treatment for glaucoma and other eye ailments if it advances through animal and ...

A novel contact lens-based system, which uses a strategically placed drug polymer film to deliver medication gradually to the eye, is at least as effective, and possibly more so, as daily latanoprost ...

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 ...

Lake Towakoni resident Linda Lilley thought she was taking her pain medication Gabapentin, but she says her bottle contained Gemfibrozil- a cholesterol medication which looked very similar to ...

HS Design's novel design for a Multiparticulate Dispensing Device for multiparticulate drug formulations secured the Innovation Prize at the BIOMEDevice Boston conference and expo. The ...

When a pharmacy sells the heartburn drug Zantac, each pill costs about 35 cents. But doctors dispensing it to patients in their offices have charged nearly 10 times that price, or $3.25 a pill. The ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The dispensing of prescription drugs to children declined by one-quarter during the last 9 months of 2020 ...

MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — A bill approved by the Alabama Senate sets a $10 drug dispensing fee for pharmacists while also seeking to regulate the companies that administer prescription drug plans ...

Louisiana argues the FDA’s rule directly interferes with its ability to enforce those laws by facilitating the mailing of ...