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Thompson Little League team earns second consecutive championship.

About half of Americans took at least one prescription drug over the past month. That includes one of five children, nine out of ten older Americans, and a local woman who needs her medication in order to be able to even leave her house. You’d never realize Amy  Hanna...

By Charlotte Ames | cames@wtajtv.com Published 05/09 2016 10:04AM Updated 05/09 2016 10:51AM Altoona, Blair County, Pa. A  recent AARP survey shows the price of hundreds of the most commonly used prescription drugs increasing at 6  times the rate of inflation and even the cost of some generics, which...

by Walt Frank (Altoona Mirror) If you provide products people need and good service, there’s a good chance your business will be successful. “As long as you give good service, people will stay with you – that is the secret,” said William D. Thompson III, president and CEO of...

Small Business Person of the Year William D. Thompson, III  Thompson Pharmacy Altoona, PA (Blair County) The Saint Francis University Small Business Development Center honored the winner of its 2015 Small Business Person of the Year award at its annual Awards Luncheon on October 15 in the JFK Student Center...

Medication synchronization involves a Thompson Pharmacy pharmacist looking at a patient’s medications and then syncing them all up for pick-up on a single, convenient day each month. It also creates an opportunity for pharmacists to provide a monthly check-in call before the patient comes in, and medication therapy management...

Altoona, Blair County, Pa. It’s a new beverage he developed and he says,  it has everything you need. Dr. Frederick  Murphy’s major job is treating  arthritis and related diseases, but he also used  his medical and scientific knowledge to develop a formula for a new all-around sports and nutrition...

The Business Excellence Dinner is designed to call attention to the importance of outstanding achievement within the business community. The dinner includes the presentation of the “Lifetime Achievement Award for Business Excellence.” The 2014 award was presented to Bill Thompson, Sr.

by NCPA | Oct 20, 2014 Austin, Texas Oct. 20, 2014 – Peter Kreckel, RPh, the pharmacy manager of Thompson Pharmacy in Altoona, Pa., today was named the 2014 National Preceptor of the Year by the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) Foundation at the NCPA 116th Annual Convention and...