com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051202/PHARMEDIUMLOGO )
"With increased industry focus on the use of bar coding to support patient
safety and inventory management, we believe adding the lot number and
expiration dating information within our bar codes helps to provide our
customers with the ultimate in traceability," said Rich Kruzynski R.Ph. Its target audience is the nearly 12,500 pharmacy students
employed by chain community pharmacies. (TSX: PJC. For more information, visit us at http://www. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 .

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WKHealth also awards a $5,000
scholarship for postgraduate study in drug information annually.
"At Eckerd and Brooks, we are focused on simplifying and optimizing our
supply chain.

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Content focuses on medications used to treat common diseases,
over-the-counter products and pharmacy management . It
contains Drug Facts and Comparisons, The Review of Natural Products,
Drug Interaction Facts , A to Z Drug Facts, Nonprescription Drug
Therapy, Cancer Chemotherapy Manual, Off-Label Drug Facts , Drug
Interaction Facts: Herbal Supplements and Food, and Med Facts Patient
Information. The
business unit includes the Medi-Span, Facts and Comparisons,
Clin-eguide and SKOLAR brands.A) is the fourth largest
drugstore chain in North America and the second largest in both the eastern
United States and Canada. The Jean Coutu
Group's Canadian operations and drugstores affiliated to its network employ
over 14,000 people and comprise 321 PJC Jean Coutu franchised stores in
Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario. Over the course of its 170-year history,
McKesson has grown by providing pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply
management across the spectrum of care; healthcare information technology for
hospitals, physicians, homecare and payors; hospital and retail pharmacy
automation; and services for manufacturers and payors designed to improve
outcomes for patients.

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newscom. at the point of care .
Wolters Kluwer Health's Academic Partnership Program, now in its
fifth year, provides a variety of benefits to pharmacy and medical
students, including significant discounts on its Facts and
Comparisons (TM) products, an extensive library of drug references
available in print and electronically.

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Our number one priority is to execute a seamless integration,
maintaining the service level and quality of care that our pharmacy patients
are accustomed to receiving from Eckerd and Brooks," said Michel Coutu,
President and CEO of PJC USA."
"McKesson is pleased to continue a long and productive relationship with
Eckerd and Brooks by providing industry-leading service levels and
complementary programs that help pharmacists focus their time on serving
patients," said Paul Julian, executive vice president, group president,
McKesson."
Prior to the acquisition of more than 1500 Eckerd stores by the Company,
McKesson served as primary supplier to the Brooks organization, and to more
than 1000 of the acquired Eckerd locations.

About The Jean Coutu Group

The Jean Coutu Group (PJC), Inc.

The Jean Coutu Group's United States operations employ over 46,000
persons and comprise 1,904 corporate owned stores located in 18 states of the
Northeastern , mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States. Such forward-
looking statements involve a number of known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results ,
performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different
from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied
by such forward-looking statements .

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PharMEDium's ability to give our customers
access to a wide range of PCA medications with this bar code technology
combined with the Alaris(R) System capability for drug recognition and dose
error reduction software through the Guardrails(R) Suite MX provides a
comprehensive solution for PCA therapy .4 billion.

Eckerd and Brooks Pharmacy renews its pharmaceutical supply agreement with Mckesson

The Company and its combined network of 2,225
corporate and affiliated drugstores (under the banners of Eckerd and Brooks,
PJC Jean Coutu, PJC Clinique and PJC Sante Beaute) employ more than 60,000
people. Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995: Certain statements contained in this press release
may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the
U.

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, PharMEDium Services, LLC, a
leading provider of outsourced hospital pharmacy compounding solutions, today
announced that syringe admixture services will begin to ship immediately with
enhanced bar coding. The new composite bar code will provide lot number and
expiration dating along with the NDC number for the drug.
"Capturing and tracking critical patient and drug information is another way
for hospitals to help reduce medication errors and optimize patient care. This
is the tenth year the scholarship has been awarded. It is part of Wolters Kluwer
nv, Amsterdam, an international legal, tax, business, education and
health information services company with annual sales (2003) of EUR
3. www.

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Lake Forest, Illinois-based PharMedium Services, LLC operates facilities
in Houston, Texas, Edison, New Jersey and Cleveland, Mississippi. The manual,
developed by community pharmacy practice residents and a pharmacy
faculty member, is available at no cost to community pharmacy
preceptors.

Health/Pharmacy includes general pharmaceutical information, related organizations and associations, pharmacy schools and information about specific medications.

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This bar code sets
a new standard within the pharmacy compounding industry by allowing a
clinician to retrieve all three pieces of information with a single scan.
(Logo: http://www."
"The barcode technology PharMEDium has implemented provides a new level of
safety when used with the Alaris(R) System, including the Alaris(R) PCA Module
and Auto ID Module. McKesson now becomes the primary supplier of pharmaceutical
products for over 1900 Eckerd and Brooks pharmacies.

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"
PharMEDium Services provides solutions to over 1,400 hospitals nationwide
through its state licensed pharmacies with FDA and DEA registration . The publication of the Chain Pharmacy
Practice Summer Internship Manual will meet a very critical need among
community pharmacy preceptors for a resource that helps educate
student interns on the clinical and management aspects of community
pharmacy practice., the fourth largest drugstore chain in North America,
announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) USA ,
Inc.S.S.

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PharMEDium specializes in providing aseptic compounding of intravenous (IV)
solutions that are complex to admix and time-consuming to prepare. The goal is to
encourage pharmacy and medical students to embrace medical information
technology as part of their learning experience, and to integrate it
into their clinical roles throughout their training. Additionally, providing a free subscription to
eFacts will enable students to begin working with online health
information early in their careers, contributing to their ability to
provide quality patient care."
The 10-week, customizable Chain Pharmacy manual includes weekly
activities for the intern and preceptor and worksheets for the intern. LONGUEUIL AND SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 - The Jean
Coutu Group (PJC), Inc. A transition team, composed of
senior managers from both Eckerd and Brooks and McKesson, is now focusing on
integrating the 570 additional stores covered by the agreement by April 1,
2005.com .

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"PharMEDium services also include tall man
lettering, enhanced safety messaging for correct infusion and easy to read
labels to support patient safety initiatives within our customer's
institutions.

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Initiatives Presented at Annual Pharmacist Meeting Are Part of
WKHealth's 5-Year-Old Academic Partnership Program, Designed to Enrich
Students' Educational Experiences

Wolters Kluwer Health (WKHealth), the leading drug and health
information provider , today announced two major initiatives as part of
its 2005-2006 Academic Partnership Program: sponsorship of the first
Chain Pharmacy Practice Summer Internship Manual, published through
the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation, and
a free, one-year personal subscription to WKHealth's Facts and
Comparisons(TM) online drug information service, eFacts, for eligible
students at participating pharmacy and medical schools. ("PJC USA" or "the Company" which operates under the name Eckerd and
Brooks Pharmacy), has renewed and expanded its comprehensive supply agreement
with McKesson Corporation ("McKesson"), North America's largest pharmaceutical
distributor.mckesson.

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The
announcement came at the 2005 American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
meeting in Orlando, Fla .
Building on a 25 year business relationship, this five-year extended
agreement will assist Eckerd and Brooks Pharmacy to deliver on its commitment
to customer service while optimizing supply chain efficiency using McKesson's
industry-leading supply solutions and strategic programs. The words "looking forward," "looking
ahead," "believe(s)," "should," "may," "expect(s)," "anticipate(s ),"
"likely," "opportunity," and similar expressions, among others, identify
forward-looking statements.

This Organizations subcategory is for groups such as pharmacists, pharmacy technicians or technologists, professors or teachers of pharmacy, or even for associations of pharmacy schools.

It is not for 'pharmaceutical industry' or 'neutraceutical (nutraceutical) industry' associations or trade groups -- Those sites should go to Business/Biotechnology_and_Pharmaceuticals/Pharmaceuticals /Associations/

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,
President of PharMEDium.D. PharMEDium plans to
integrate this bar code technology into all of their compounded admixtures
compatible with many of the small and large volume infusion systems on the
market today.
eFacts is the electronic version of Wolters Kluwer Health's Facts
and Comparisons(TM), an extensive drug reference library of
publications and references, available on CD, PDA and online.

About Wolters Kluwer Health

Wolters Kluwer Health is a leading provider of information for
professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health,
pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. The Company undertakes no obligation to
update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release.

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This ensures
that the bar code on PharMEDium compounded admixtures will work with a variety
of bedside scanning and inventory management systems . For more
information regarding PharMEDium Services, LLC, contact Amy Langan , Director
of Marketing , at 847-457-2327 or visit http://www.pharmedium.

About McKesson

McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK) is a Fortune 16 healthcare services and
information technology company dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-
quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes and improving the
quality and safety of patient care.

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We are very excited to have this
partnership with PharMEDium ," said Jake St. Philip, President, Cardinal
Health, Alaris(R) Products.

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These tools aid in disease management, error reduction,
workflow improvements, and more effective patient management and are
used in thousands of hospitals, pharmacies, and physician offices.

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We provide seamless recognition for the PCA syringe in
terms of drug and concentration, as well as ability to capture clinician and
patient I. The value of a Composite bar code, a combination
of RSS and 2D symbology, is its versatility to be read by both the existing
and next generation scanner technology along with the ability to encode
significantly more information when compared to the traditional UCC/ EAN - 128
symbology requiring significantly greater space requirements. The Clinical Tools business unit offers industry -leading
intellectual property, next-generation integrated drug and disease
databases and point -of-care information tools for healthcare
professionals. Other major brands of Wolters Kluwer
Health include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference
tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams + Wilkins; electronic
information providers, such as Ovid Technologies; and pharmaceutical
information provider Adis International. The Company will
also benefit from McKesson facilities that offer access to inventory for
single-source purchasing, to enhance productivity and efficiency as well as
the safety and integrity of the pharmaceutical products pharmacies receive.SV.

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"This advancement in technology puts essential information about each
individual medication, such as lot number and expiration date, at the
fingertips of nurses, pharmacists, and technicians," said Bill Churchill,
director, Pharmacy Services at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
"For several years now, Wolters Kluwer Health has been committed
to providing exemplary educational opportunities through our Academic
Partnership Program," said Ken Killion, CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health's
Clinical Tools business unit. Key features of eFacts include fast, easy navigation,
accurate and reliable results, comprehensive and timely information ,
reference-based, quality content, comparative tables and results that
appear in order of relevance . "Our national distribution strength allows us to rapidly integrate
the 570 additional Eckerd and Brooks stores into our service agreement and
supply them with the right medicines at the right time .


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PharMEDium Launched Enhanced Bar Coding and Will Begin to Ship Pharmacy Admixture Services With Enhanced Bar Coding That Incorporates Lot Number and Expiration

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com . "The expansion of the program this year
only enhances that commitment. "We appreciate the innovative solutions McKesson
delivers to help us maintain our commitment to our customers, and look forward
to an extended, strategic relationship during this exciting time .

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