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Cleaning out the medicine cabinet? Not sure what to do about the unused, outdated, or unwanted medications you find? Kerr Drug, a leading provider of pharmacy and other healthcare related services, is offering a new solution. The specially designed TakeAway Environmental Return System Envelopes, made by Sharps Compliance Corporation, will be available at all Kerr Drug stores throughout North Carolina starting May 23rd. The envelopes sell for $3.99. The system offers Kerr Drug customers a safe and convenient way to dispose of non-controlled prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) medications.

Tony Civello, President and CEO of Kerr Drug can now add a new title: Health Care Hero Lifetime Achievement Winner. Civello received the recognition from the Triangle Business Journal for his lifetime of work aimed at improving the quality of health care in the community. The Journal’s editors cited Civello’s leadership in the drug store industry and his proactive work to refocus chain drug retailing in the health care field.

Bill would expand Medicare Part D coverage of Medication Therapy Management

It’s time to look over that checklist for fun in the summer sun: swimsuit, beach towels and beach chair. But there’s one item you might be forgetting; medicine. That’s right, medicine.

Better than a tie or golf club, Kerr Drug’s high-tech health assessment gives that special man in your life a peek into their inner health and motivates healthy change

Kerr Drug, a nationally recognized provider of pharmacy and other healthcare related services, is taking the traditional customer loyalty program into the digital age. That’s right, think store coupon, at internet speed. The new Kerr Rewards program offers multiple ways customers can be given advice on health care, alerted to breaking medical news, as well as rewarded for shopping at Kerr Drug.

Kerr Drug pharmacists credited with saving patients millions of dollars in drug costs and creating health care model for industry

Kerr Drug, a nationally recognized provider of pharmacy and other healthcare related services, is enhancing its health and wellness program with the addition of a revolutionary assessment tool called Know Your Number. The test predicts an individual’s risk of developing chronic, preventable obesity related diseases such as diabetes, stroke and heart disease. Kerr Drug is partnering with Durham, NC based BioSignia to offer the test, and it is only available to customers at Kerr Drug stores in the Triangle. It is not available at any other pharmacy chain nationwide.

Kerr Drug, a nationally recognized innovator and provider of pharmacy and other healthcare related services, has signed to underwrite the popular public radio program The People’s Pharmacy. The agreement calls for cross-promotional opportunities between Kerr Drug and The People’s Pharmacy as well as its creators and hosts, Joe and Terry Graedon. Content from the health library of The People’s Pharmacy website as well as podcasts of the radio program will be available on Kerr Drug’s website.

Thanks to a donation from Kerr Drug, thousands of people in developing countries around the world will have a new pair of glasses to help them read. Rather than discard the outdated inventory, the Raleigh, NC based drug store chain donated thousands of pairs of old reading glasses and accessories from 80 of its stores to New Eyes for the Needy. The Short Hills, New Jersey charity recycles donated glasses for distribution to children and adults in developing countries around the world. New Eyes volunteers will sort the reading glasses by magnification and re-package them for distribution through small medical missions.