The University of Dallas (UD) this month announced plans to open North Texas' first PharmD degree program.

Express Scripts, the nation's third largest pharmacy benefits management company, is offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for trying to extort money from the company.

Pharmacists remain in short supply across the country, particularly in rural areas, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. With such a high demand, some retail and hospital pharmacies are offering signing bonuses and other incentives to recruit new pharmacists.

CVS Caremark Corp. recently announced that it successfully completed the subsequent offering period of its tender offer for all of the outstanding common stock of Longs Drug Stores Corp.

The executive vice president and CEO of a major pharmacy association plans to retire in June 2011. Read on to find out more.

One of the nation's largest processors of pharmacy prescriptions said Nov. 6 that extortionists are threatening to disclose personal and medical information on millions of Americans if the company fails to meet payment demands.

The shelves of the Divine Mercy Care pharmacy in Chantilly, Va. are stocked with allergy remedies, pain relievers, antiseptic ointments, and almost everything else sold in any drugstore. Shoppers looking for condoms, birth control pills, or emergency contraceptive, however, will need to go elsewhere.

The generic will be available in 15g tubes, 30g tubes, and 45g tubes.

PhRMA member companies are advising RxResponse, a consortium of groups that work together to make sure vital medicines are readily available after a natural or man-made disaster.