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 ...

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, ...

Wolfe's Pharmacy, 5458 La. 56, Chauvin, is the only drug store in the area that uses an automated medication-dispensing system. Pharmacist Peter Wolfe Sr. said the pharmacy has used the system it ...

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 ...

RxSafe, a provider of automated medication storage and retrieval systems for pharmacies, is offering a new line of prescription packaging machines, known as RxASP, that employ high-frequency (HF) ...

Vending machines have dispensed Plan B emergency oral contraceptive—the so-called “morning-after pill”—on college campuses since at least 2017. Arizona State University and Florida State University ...

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, ...

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 ...