Plastic began being used in pill bottles after World War II, but the modern plastic pill bottle as we know it today, with its distinctive orange hue (technically, it’s called amber) and its ...

The locking pill bottles is a fairly new technology. It was invented in Colorado this past summer. Each locking pill bottle will come with it's own unique code and instructions on how to operate it.

W hether you take medication for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression, or another need, the pharmacy often tucks an orange pill bottle inside that paper bag.In fact, if you regularly ...

Pharmacy lets customer reuse pill bottles. Jim Day Aug 29, 2018 Aug 29, 2018 Updated Aug 30, 2018; 0; 1 of 5 Tom Field, owner and manager at Rice's Pharmacy & Gifts in Corvallis, has created a ...

But Purdue University pharmacy professor Alan Zillich hasn’t seen much of an evolution in the design of pill containers used by pharmacies because it just isn’t worth it, financially.

One woman couldn’t read the text on her pill bottles, so Parker would write the first letter of each medication in sharpie on the caps. It wasn’t much, but it was all he could do to help her ...

Longtime customers of Target’s pharmacies are finding a change in pill bottle design hard to swallow.After CVS began operating Target’s drugstores earlier this year, distraught customers have ...

I have a lot of prescription bottles lying around with unused pills. Some from my wisdom teeth removal, others from a recent bout with food poisoning, and a couple for my creaky, inflamed joints ...

Pharmacies use GPS devices in pill bottles to track down thieves. A pair of robbery suspects appeared before a judge Thursday, accused of holding up a Walgreens twice in October.