CVS Pharmacy has developed Spoken Rx, a new feature on its app that can read prescription labels outloud for visually impaired patients. By the end of 2020, 1,500 CVS Pharmacy locations will have ...

Off-label prescribing is when a medication is prescribed for a purpose not approved by the FDA. Insurance might cover off-label prescriptions, but it depends on the specific plan and often requires a ...

CVS Pharmacy is expanding its Spoken Rx audio prescription labels to be available in all its pharmacies, after a trial run last year. The feature, developed as part of a collaboration with the ...

Following a trial in 2020 involving 1,700 locations across the US, CVS is expanding the availability of its Spoken Rx audio prescription labels to all 10,000 of its pharmacies nationwide. The ...

Adhesive PWLs were originally developed to highlight important instructions for the safe use of a medication that were contained within the longer package insert and to be visible every time the ...

PHILADELPHIA, November 29, 2006 -- A new study to assess understanding of five common prescription label instructions found that patients had difficulty comprehending how much and how often the ...

As many as half of all Americans with chronic diseases like hypertension and depression don’t take their medications as prescribed. And more than 100,000 people die due to medication nonadherence each ...

Medications prescribed to children to treat symptoms or illnesses different from what has approved for those drugs by the FDA are becoming increasingly common, a new study from Rutgers University ...

When a child gets sick, doctors are increasingly relying on what's known as "off-label" use of medications, a new study says. Off-label use of a drug means that it hasn't been specifically studied and ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California could become the first state with its own prescription drug label under a proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled Thursday. Newsom wants California, home to nearly 40 ...

A large, new study in JAMA Internal Medicine found off-label medications represent about 12% of drug prescriptions and are resulting in negative side effects about 50% of the time. WSJ’s Sumathi Reddy ...