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The American healthcare company, CVS Health, has decided to remove the cold and cough pills containing phenylephrine from the drug stores. The following decision comes after the health regulator, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determines the decongestant is ineffective towards flu if taken orally. However, when ingested in pill or tablet form, this ingredient fails to reach its destination from the stomach to the nasal passages. CVS Health spokesperson told USA Today, "We are removing a small number of oral decongestant products that contain phenylephrine as the only active ingredient from CVS Pharmacy stores but will continue offering many other oral cough and cold products to meet consumer needs." They almost run more than 9,000 stores in the US whereas their rival, Walgreens has not yet taken the step to remove over-the-counter medications from their shelves.

The employees from large drugstore chains staged an additional walkout at stores this week from 1 Nov to 3 Nov. Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid pharmacists launched a three-day walkout to push companies to hire more staff and improve working conditions. The majority of pharmacy workers in Kansas City called in sick or walked off the job as they felt it was harder to work with "minimal" help. Licenced pharmacist, Amanda Applegate, who is also a Director of practise development with the Kansas Pharmacists Association spoke on the plight of the pharmacists. "This is a nationwide problem that pharmacists have been internally yelling about for years."

Association of Physicians of India, Krtishna District(A P) Chapter, Vijayawada in Association with Ranbaxy CV Life organised CME Program at Hotel Fortune Murali Park, Vijayawada on 29th March 2014. Dr AGK Gokhale was Invited as Speaker of the CME Program.Dr Gokhale delivered a Lecture on "Management of Heart Failure - Drugs to Transplantation

If the eyes feel tired and strained by looking at any digital screen for very long duration, one may be a victim of the digital onslaught. This condition is increasingly been noticed among people working long hours on a computer and in school-age children who spend a significant time on devices. It is called the "Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)or Digital Eye Strain (DES). This can be treated with the latest and sophisticated computerized technique (Bynocs - The Computer Vision syndrome treatment software), which can be done at the doctor's clinic or at home

from a variety of needs to be developed for use in the pharmaceutical world to the world.

IAM Healthcare and pharmacy labour activists have initiated a new worker empowerment project to help pharmacies unionise over unsafe staffing levels and increasing workloads. The campaign is coined "The Pharmacy Guild" to establish higher standards of practice in pharmacies to protect patients. The union issued a mission statement on Wednesday (8 November) highlighting three major demands and goals. They demanded that "staffing and workload standards should be set up to ensure safe patient care." There should be "representation and collective bargaining for pharmacy professionals in workplaces across the country."