Pharmaceutical packaging sustains temperatures and environment

As powerful as Walmart is, it can't change the weather. That's why James Soucey, director of clinical services for Walmart's Specialty Pharmacy in Lake Mary, FL, had a problem shipping to the state of Hawaii. The state's logistics and warm temperatures were wreaking havoc on the company's mail-order shipments of high-value, temperature-sensitive prescription drugs to patients in Hawaii with special health conditions or complex, chronic conditions. Walmart Specialty Pharmacy provides prescription services and follow-up care directly to individuals throughout the country with conditions including arthritis, growth disorders, hepatitis, HIV, multiple sclerosis, oncology, psoriasis and much more. Transporting the medications to a patient's home, office, family member or physician's office in all 50 states via common carrier was posing some challenges, but especially in the 50th state.

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