Here is an update that I thought would interest you and your readers. As you know, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is currently offering talking prescriptions to our nation’s visually ...

Dean Steacy has been fighting for five years to get his local Rexall drugstore to adopt "talking prescription label" technology. The Gatineau, Que., man has been blind for 17 years, takes insulin and ...

Wegmans is offering the ScripTalk system that allows blind or low-vision patients to hear important prescription label information audibly, ensuring their medication independence and safety. The chain ...

Prescription labels can improve medication safety, according to a study conducted by Issues & Answers Network for En-Vision America, a company that provides ScripTalk Talking Prescription System to ...

I’ve heard from a veteran friend here in North Carolina that he can get talking prescriptions from the VA hospital. He gets his prescriptions with an special electronic label. They also gave him a ...

CVS Health has announced it will now offer ScripTalk talking prescription labels as well as braille and large print labels through its mail service pharmacy to CVS/caremark members who are blind or ...

WASHINGTON — The man squints at his medication, but his dimming vision can’t make out even whether he picked up the Coumadin or Celebrex. So he aims a gadget the size of a deck of cards at the bottle, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NORMAL, Ill. — A talking prescription label to organize the many medications visually impaired patients often ...

WASHINGTON -- The man squints at his medication, but his dimming vision can't make out whether he picked up the Coumadin or Celebrex. So he aims a gadget the size of a deck of cards at the bottle, and ...

Essentia Health, a 14-hospital system based in Duluth, Minn., launched a free tool March 26 to verbalize prescription labels. The app, ScripTalk, uses text-to-speech technology to recite drug labels ...

B O S T O N, Oct. 29 -- What if medications not only came with instructions, they also read them aloud? Enter SCRIPTALK, a new audio device that can do just that. For many elderly people with failing ...